{"id":244361,"date":"2003-11-07T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/blackout-chaos"},"modified":"2003-11-07T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T17:01:15","slug":"blackout-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/blackout-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Blackout Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEC chairman Al Jarett called the blackout &quot;disturbing and unusual&quot; and it had him concerned. <P><br \/>\nWith no traffic lights working throughout the city, many main roads were clogged with slow moving traffic &#8211; and the situation got worse as night fell.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAlthough dsimissing speculations of sabotage, early investigations have still not determined the cause of the fault which occurred in a line between two of the island&#39;s main power stations.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nEarlier yesterday morning Works Minister Bradley Roberts told The Tribune that the system went down island wide at 5:25am.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nWhile not completely certain Minister Roberts said that yesterday&#39;s blackout wa caused by a transmission problem between the two major power stations.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBEC&#39;s general manager Bradley Roberts, at a press conference later Thursday, said the disturbance was caused by a fault on one of the 132kV lines between the Clifton Pier and Big Pond power stations.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nTe fault caused the system to collapse and the generators, that were in operation at the time, to trip.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Providence was thrown into chaos by an islandwide blackout yesterday which brought traffic, schools and businesses to a standstill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}