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An equipment failure led to a “cascade” of failsafe shutdowns that cut off electricity to the entire island last week, power firm Belco announced today. Dennis Pimentel, the utility company’s president, said that the blackout remained under investiga...

A probe to find the cause of an island-wide blackout last week was still under way yesterday. Dennis Pimentel, the Belco president, added that a report on last Friday’s outage would be sent to the Regulatory Authority. He said: “Once the investigatio...

The new owner of the Ascendant Group and its Belco subsidiary probably did not expect the first event of its new ownership to be an island-wide blackout. Nor can it be blamed for it. But the lack of explanation by Belco for the catastrophic outage is...

Clean air campaigners today appealed to power firm Belco to help form a community advisory committee to foster better relations between the power plant and its neighbours. The Bermuda Clean Air Coalition, whose members include local residents, busine...

More than 300 properties were without power this afternoon after a utility pole fault. A spokesman for power firm Belco said engineers had been sent to fix the problem in Southampton. Belco said in a tweet: “We're aware of an outage currently affecti...

Hopes for a busy last Friday before Christmas for shops and restaurants were dashed yesterday after the lights went out across the island. Karl Massam, the general manager of restaurant group Yellowfin, said he was “excited” on the way to work at the...

An island-wide blackout failed to slow business at the new airport, a spokeswoman said yesterday. But bad winter weather off the US East Coast caused delays to some flights scheduled to leave the island. The JetBlue flight was scheduled to leave for ...

A power cut that hit the island yesterday was an “anomaly”, the president of Belco’s parent company insisted. Wayne Caines said staff continued to investigate the cause of the outage, but a recurrence was not expected. Most customers had power resto...

About three quarters of the island had power restored this afternoon as Belco crews worked to get electricity to all residents and businesses by the end of the day. Dennis Pimentel, the company president, said that teams were “feverishly working" to ...

A former Cabinet minister has been appointed to a newly created role at the helm of Belco’s parent company. Wayne Caines will be Ascendant president from Monday. A company spokesman said: “The new role comes following the acquisition of Ascendant by ...

Power firm Belco said today that recently installed equipment at its new power plant was designed to prevent a repeat of the problem that caused soot to land on homes around its plant. Belco was flooded with complaints from area residents and MPs in ...

“Severe flooding” at a trenching job on Harrington Sound Road in Hamilton Parish has caused the road to be closed off, the Ministry of Public Works advised. The closure runs from Rocky Ridge Road to Sommersall Road, and will remain in effect until th...