Erica Virtue, Senior Gleaner Writer
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) has been paying the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) $696 million for street lights each year and seems set to continue doing so until 2014, despite the introduction of energy-saving bulbs in some street lamps.
In an effort to reduce the $58 million it pays the JPS each month, the KSAC has installed energy-saving light-emitting diodes (LED) lamps on some streets with plans to introduce even more, but that will not cut its monthly payment for some time.
According to the JPS, the rate schedule which guides its charge for street lights was authorised by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and will continue until 2014, when the matter will again be reviewed.
The explanation from the JPS came in response to a