Exploit the people

If you lived in a real country, and it had endless sunshine, and the coast had endless breeze, and you didn't have oil, the idea of solar and wind would be knee jerk.

Unless if you lived in a Kakiscrisy where a foreign company owns the single energy producer, JPS.  

There was a time Jamaica owned the Jamaica Public Service Company. Of course, selling it to some foreign company would enable those in power to buy property in Boca Raton, so who cares about the people.

You have to laugh or throw up.

The basic electricity bill is 2/3rds a weekly salary.  That's for a couple of lights, maybe a small fridge and TV.  Spending 5k on electricity is not strange if one has a deep freezer.

Companies spend over 100k a month for electricity, so one can see that implementing solar/wind; letting people have their own panels, their own turbines, even selling back the excess is  a no brainer.

You want to understand that just getting a bill allowing people to have their own electricity producers through Parliament is a Herculean task.  

Why?

Kick backs.

There isn't a company operating in Jamaica today that doesn't kick back a nice chunk to government.