The approximately 130,000 Barbados Light & Power Company Ltd (BL&P) customers were left without electricity for most of Monday, following an island-wide blackout that started around 7:29 a.m. and led to the early closure of schools and several businesses by midday. Barbados Light & Power (BL&P) later blamed the outage on contaminated fuel compounded by … Continue reading Dirty fuel, aging generators blamed for 13-hour blackout