Guadeloupe loses electricity after striking workers seize power station
French Caribbean island without power after employees cause ‘emergency shutdown of all the engines’
The French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been left entirely without power after striking workers seized control of the territory’s power station.
Employees at the power station in the industrial zone of Jarry entered the command room “and caused an emergency shutdown of all the engines”, the Guadeloupe prefecture said in a statement on Friday.
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