APUA to Begin Cable Removal Works in St. John’s City

I commend APUA for undertaking this project. The removal of those cables should have been the responsibility, joint or otherwise, by the companies which installed them in the first place.
The weight those cables carry on the poles make them dangerous during the hurricane season.
I hope that the Point/Villa, Grays Farm/Green bay, Nut Grove/Golden Grove, Martins Village, Ottos, Michael’s Villages will be next. Eventually for it to expand island wide.

Dem dangling wires been an eyesore for too long.

Hope they coordinate with other utilities to avoid future overlaps.

Mi just hope dem nah cut off my internet during the process.

Will this lead to better service reliability?

Hear all these none technical people praising the situation of wire removal from air, they will learn a terrible lesson that reliability is not going underground, power problem will be more intense including longer power losses when there is a problem, and during hurricane it have to come off in flooded area to dry out these underground or pad mounted apparatus, it would be Good to allow some overhead wires to remain for quick power restoration when these underground cables go bad. The APUA needs to buy new aesthetic poles and material to carry these lines around overhead without the eye sore, using something like steel poles or concrete poles with spacer cable that is bundled together will be more appeasing to the eye and reliable too . Even the fibreglass poles could give some special aesthetic to APUA system, when I worked at APUA I was on a push to see APUA modernized but was stymied by the supervisor staff, I resigned from APUA in the 80’s and leave for the virgins islands and work with the power company there, and came back and impacted APUA teaching the linesman to climb the pole with spikes and performing all feats they thought they needed ladders and bucket trucks to perform, materials like preform was heaped up outside the stores doors donated from abroad during hurricane Hugo that the APUA didn’t know their use until I came back and used them and it become the staple of the day today, fault free connection tool called AMPAC connectors and gun to shoot on these connectors for trouble free connection is left in the stores to rot because the supervisor know nothing about these things or refuse to advance their knowledge, once they have power they are fine. and new construction ideas that I pioneered that save the company monies that has become their standards today because Apua was still performing these elaborate outdated colonial structures left by the UK from the 1950’s even after we got independence in 1981, some bodies of work I have left there is not even understood by the present supervisory staff or workmen, for all this my reward was a kick in the behind from the supervisors and a particular engineer, and the present electricity manager sat and watch the flame burn until it died down and benifited his clique, I had to leave APUA, the gentleman Mr lynch that spearheading the underground system is doing a great job, something I think could have been started by the other supervisory staff that spent time fighting me instead a modernizing the APUA service that was in their power to do. now this young man Mr lynch having return from abroad is doing a good job. I feel to this day the amount of spin off benifit APUA got from me that is cost saving today I should have had a special renumeration, i push for standards as in measurements that APUA don’t have up to this day, to quantitize and staking sheet data and switch numbers instead of it been name by locality ( by somebody’s yard)and I was to take APUA into none power interruptions future by doing hotline work as I have done abroad and went to Northwest Linesman College to certify for, but the supervisors stop the process that could a benifit Antigua toaday, there is one supervisor there capable but needs competent experience linesman to work with him, we caloborated when I was there. workers who I have train are now supervisor and foreman today bringing capacity to APUA. but the other phase that APUA need to go into I don’t see it with the present electricity manager, a man like George Piggott back in the days would be hands on. The present electricity manager never worked near any electricity and is scared of it, so couldn’t impart anything like Mr Piggott did, he may bring you hell torture and discipline until you run from the job or ask for transfer. If there was a way I could make APUA and Antigua in general benifit from my training even though I had to resign because of the stressful conditions I had to work under with the superiors at the time, I would go and give it, because the future will come and someone is going to do what I started in the vissitude of time. No man can stop that future I have started, I was motivated by George Piggott back then to go further.