…you would be disgusted,” he said. In November last year, the head of WAPA’s corporate communications department reportedly committed suicide, an incident that Mr. Smith referenced while making his plea for customers to stop insult…
…Property and Procurement Commissioner Anthony Thomas has instructed WAPA Acting Executive Director Noel Hodge to develop a maintenance cost breakdown for all the engines at the power plants so that funding could be identified and …
…rectified and power fully restored at about 6:05 p.m. the same day, WAPA said Sunday. In responses to the Consortium, the authority said the outage started at about 1:30 p.m. caused by "a substantial loss of generation capacity at…
…electrical substation and later, compromised primary service lines, WAPA said in a release. The outage began shortly before 6 a.m. and all customers were restored at 2:30 p.m. The Donald Francois electrical substation in Long Bay …
…St. Thomas–St. John district at approximately 11:20 a.m. on Friday. WAPA said while it will take a few days to fully determine and understand the cause of the outage, authority officials suspect that a large generating unit trippe…
…Water and Power Authority from FEMA to go toward management costs. “WAPA operates as the sole public electric utility on St. Thomas, supplying the electric energy needs of the communities on St. Thomas and nearby islands of Water …
…over government operations and consumer affairs, had scheduled a WAPA hearing for Friday. The senator expressed her displeasure by using her entire 10 minutes during the first round of questioning on Tuesday, when testifiers were …
…12,140 customers received bills for a period of 36 days. “While WAPA endeavors to be in compliance with all laws governing its operations, including those which dictate specific limits on billing periods, this was an instance wher…
…at the authority with no one to rein in the spending. Holding up a WAPA document that welcomed the authority's new CFO, William Schmidt, while keeping in the interim outgoing CFO Debra Gottlieb, Mr. Gittens expressed outrage. "...…
…$1.4 million in federal grants to boost rebuilding efforts while WAPA is going to receiving $1.6 million to cover the “management costs” incurred when the authority received millions more in federal dollars to help storm recovery …
…of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act passed by Congress last month — to WAPA, while providing Virgin Islands households with some relief. According to Government House, credits in the amounts of $250 for residential accounts and $500 fo…
…event in less than 24 hours. Relative to the latest outage, WAPA said plant personnel were working to restore generators at the power plant which will facilitate service restoration. On Saturday, an island-wide power outage affect…
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