You’re wrong for that, JPS

THE EDITOR, Madam:

I have received an estimated bill from the Jamaica Public Service (JPS); it is of a similar amount that I paid the previous month.

Based on the billing cycle and the amount of time I have been without electrical power since the passage of Hurricane Beryl, I estimated that I consumed 42.8 per cent of the amount I was billed for; so to be on the safe side I paid 50 per cent of the billed sum.

I am not in the habit of paying for a service I have not received and I have no intention of starting to do so now.

At the time of writing of this letter, I am still without my electrical power supply, but I understand my district in Manchester is slated for restoration this week.

After service is restored, should JPS choose to disconnect my electrical power supply because I did not pay the estimated bill in full, I intend to engage the services of a law firm that specialises in commercial and contract law with a view to filing a class action lawsuit against the JPS.

I have not done the research as yet but I am sure there is a law against charging for a service that has not been supplied. If there is no such law, our political class, past and present, have a lot of explaining to do.

ALWYN GREGORY

Manchester