A broken pole caused by high wind and the tripping of a power line were responsible for power shortages experienced by several Georgetown areas over the weekend, according to a release from the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated.

The release said that last Friday evening, high winds broke a pole carrying some high voltage mains located at the corner of the Eastern Highway and Kamoa Street, Lamaha Gardens.

The broken pole caused some sections of Kitty/Campbellville, Lamaha Gardens and several other areas to be out of power.

But because of the magnitude of the maintenance work that had to be carried out, Lamaha Gardens remained without power for 12 hours.

“GPL employees worked feverishly to plant a new pole and transferred the high voltage mains so that the residents of Lamaha garden could have power,” the release said.

And then on Sunday evening, the 69KV Trans-mission Line linkage linking Garden of Eden to Sophia tripped causing most of the city to be without power. The company’s technicians quickly worked to correct the line problems and power was restored.

The company apologised to persons living in the affected areas for the inconvenience caused as a result of the outages.