BEC: MORE THAN 100 NEW POLES REQUIRED

Mon, Aug 29th 2011, 11:00 PM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

THE BAHAMAS ELECTRICITY CORPORATION (BEC) has to install almost 100 new electricity poles between Cat Island and Eleuthera alone, its chairman yesterday saying it was "making exceptional progress" in restoration efforts that were likely to be completed in two weeks.

Michael Moss described Cat Island and Eleuthera as "the two biggies" in terms of BEC's electricity supply restoration efforts, with work in the former island likely to take two weeks, although 100 per cent of customers elsewhere would be reconnected sooner.

"Still waiting to be done is Cat Island, which requires 62 poles, and the number for Eleuthera is 35 poles, & ...

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