Barbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator
The attorney representing claimants in the class action suit against the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is to head to the Court of Appeal today to file a counter notice of appeal.
This follows the filing by JPS yesterday of an appeal of the judges
Lawsuit filed names power company, OUR, Attorney General
A lawsuit aimed at busting the Jamaica Public Service’s (JPS) monopoly on islandwide light and power distribution was filed Friday in the Supreme Court.
The suit is being brought by a group of disgruntled JPS customers led by North Trelawny Member of Parliament Dennis Meadows and names as defendants the attorney general, the JPS and the Office of the Utilities Regulation (OUR).
In the suit, the claimants are seeking several declarations from the court, which, if successful, would revoke the JPS’s 27-year All-Island Electricity Licence, and open up the market to other players.
The licence was granted by then Mining and Energy Minister Bobby Pickersgill on March 30, 2001, pursuant to Section 3 of the Electric Lighting Act. The licence was in 2007 extended for a further seven years on the recommendation of the OUR, pursuant to Section 4 of the Office of Utilities Regulation Act.
But the claimants
