Castries, March 14, 2022 – At 5:31 a.m. on March 14, 2022, St. Lucia experienced an island wide power outage.

The outage was caused by a cable fault at the Cul De Sac facility.  The fault triggered the protection system, resulting in a total shutdown of the electricity system. 

Castries, March 10, 2022 – Mr. Roger Joseph has been appointed the St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) Strategy Development & Implementation Manager. Mr. Joseph previously served as the company’s Corporate Communications Manager and took up his new post on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

Castries, March 7, 2022 – Mechanic Helper Mr. Ignatius “Iggy” Mathurin is the 2021 St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) Safety Champion. He was awarded the Company’s 2021 Health and Safety Award for the work he does to keep the Generation plant where he is based, sanitized in keeping with COVID-19 protocols and his willingness to assist the Health and Safety Committee. Of the recognition, he said “I was surprised, so very surprised and happy. I even cried a little bit.”