Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says he expects to update the country on Saturday following what he described as an “unacceptable” all-island power outage that left Jamaica in darkness for nearly two hours on Friday night.Reports of widespread outages began emerging from several parishes shortly after 8:00 p.m., before Vaz posted “Island-wide blackout” on X, formerly Twitter, at 9:27 p.m.

MEXICO CITY -- An island-wide power blackout hit Jamaica on Friday evening following a system failure, according to the country's officials and power utility.

The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is reporting that a system failure is behind the darkness across Jamaica.Energy Minister Daryl Vaz, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, stated that…