KALAIN HO­SEIN

Mul­ti­ple ar­eas across Trinidad lost pow­er on Mon­day af­ter­noon, with the black­outs last­ing more than an hour in some in­stances.

Ac­cord­ing to a se­nior em­ploy­ee at Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC), the pow­er loss was due to an un­der-fre­quen­cy gen­er­a­tor at Trinidad Gen­er­a­tion Un­lim­it­ed (TGU), one of T&T's pow­er plants.

“Be­cause of the gen­er­a­tor's is­sue, mul­ti­ple ar­eas across Trinidad would have lost pow­er un­til the gen­er­a­tor syn­chro­nized,” the T&TEC of­fi­cial ex­plained.  “When the ma­chin­ery nor­mal­izes, T&TEC will be­gin to re­store sup­ply as the Com­mis­sion sees fit.”

Pow­er out­ages have been re­port­ed in the fol­low­ing ar­eas, as of 3:15 pm on Mon­day (29th March):

Port of Spain, Cu­nar­ipo Vil­lage, Cou­va, Cunu­pia, El Do­ra­do, Arou­ca, Siparia, Fyz­abad, Tu­na­puna, Av­o­cat, Ch­agua­nas, Munroe Road, O’Mera, La Ro­main, San Juan, Ari­ma, and St. Au­gus­tine.

These out­ages were out­side of the planned main­te­nance ar­eas for Mon­day 29th March 2021, which in­clud­ed parts of Val­sayn and Mara­bel­la.

Mon­day’s pow­er out­ages come on the heels of wide­spread TV, in­ter­net, and phone line out­ages from FLOW since 6:00 am on Mon­day.  Flow is­sued the fol­low­ing state­ment:

"Flow wish­es to ad­vise that we are aware of a cur­rent in­ter­rup­tion in in­ter­net ser­vice for some of its cus­tomers.  Our teams have al­ready been mo­bi­lized and are cur­rent­ly work­ing to re­store full con­nec­tiv­i­ty in the short­est pos­si­ble time. We sin­cere­ly apol­o­gize for the in­con­ve­nience caused and thank you for your pa­tience and un­der­stand­ing."