Fewer than 400 homes were expected to still be without power this morning as Belco continued to work around the clock at the weekend to restore electricity following Hurricane Fabian.

Crews worked yesterday and into last night to restore power to a number of homes in the Cherry Hill and Stadium Heights area, as well as the Jones Village area of Warwick.

And teams also finished a large two-day job at Sears Hill in the St. Mark's area of Smith's, and in addition, Belco technicians continued to work on smaller, isolated outages that were affecting pockets of homes consisting of ten and less. Most of those were transformer issues.

Last night, Belco spokeswoman Linda Smith said: "We started the day with 660 without power, and have managed to reduce that number to 450 by late this afternoon. Crews will continue working tonight.

"Our restoration efforts over the weekend were helped by the fact that Bermuda Telephone Company let us use some of their bucket trucks, which helped to extend the areas we could work.

"Pole crews are also preparing areas that need poles for transformers, some of the larger areas where there has been a lot of pole preparation today include Camden North and Sarcus Hill.

"As we work throughout the evening, we expect to get the numbers down further, but there will still be a significant amount of isolated outage work moving into (today)."

The buses will continue to finish running at 6.45 p.m. until all of the street lights are restored around the Island.

And Ms Smith said Belco would be looking to restore those only after all residential homes had received their power again.

Belco have also asked that drivers, especially truck and bus drivers, use caution on Bermuda's roads to avoid low-hanging wires.

There have been several instances in recent days when trucks have pulled down low lines, leaving customers without electricity and other utilities.

The Public Transport Board last night said bus routes one and three, which service the Hamilton Parish, Smith's Parish and Grotto Bay areas, via South Shore, will once again be operational, although in a limited capacity.

Director Dan Simmons said severe damage to the John Smith's Bay road area and ongoing roadwork along a stretch of South Road, near to Spittal Pond, meant the bus route had been adjusted and would exclude St. Mark's Road, Paynter's Road, John Smith's Bay, Watch Hill and Tucker's Town.

All other areas along routes one and three, including Flatts, Harrington Sound, Shark Hole Hill, Town Hill and Verdmont Road will be serviced.