became the target of saboteurs who cut cables in several locations across the Island.

The first attack was early on Thursday morning when cables near the Railway Trail on the North Shore, Devonshire, were cut, and later that day more cables were found severed near the Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel.

General manager of Cablevision, Jeremy Elmas said yesterday that affected customers suffered total black-out.

Mr. Elmas said the cable that was cut on North Shore supplied an estimated 3,500 customers. The Southampton vandalism affected only the hotel.

Mr. Elmas said the cable was fixed by the early afternoon and as many people were at work, they may not have even noticed the disruption.

The sabotage continued on Friday morning after cables were cut at Parsons Lane and Happy Valley Road in Devonshire, Stovell Lane in Paget and several other locations in St. David's.

Mr. Elmas said that Friday's attacks led to localised black-outs and about 50 customers were affected by each severed cable. Yesterday afternoon he said that some of St. David's was still without cable, but that it should have been restored by last night. Last night four trucks were out repairing the damaged cables.

He said repairs were delayed on Thursday as Police were called to the scene, where they took a portion of cable to see if any fingerprints had been left.

Crews were then able to repair the severed cable.

Mr. Elmas apologised to customers for the loss of service but said it was out of their control and they were working to restore customers cable as soon as possible.

Mr. Elmas said he hoped the sabotage was over and that the culprit would be caught.