Treasury Division restores services after transformer failure

The Trea­sury Di­vi­sion has re­stored its op­er­a­tions fol­low­ing an elec­tri­cal dis­rup­tion caused by a blown trans­former on Fri­day, which dam­aged equip­ment and tem­porar­i­ly af­fect­ed crit­i­cal ser­vices, in­clud­ing the en­cash­ment of Gov­ern­ment cheques.

In a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry is­sued on Sun­day, the di­vi­sion said tech­ni­cal pro­fes­sion­als had been work­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly to re­pair the dam­age and re­store the af­fect­ed sys­tems.

It said ser­vice ca­pa­bil­i­ty had been re­stored and cus­tomers could now re­sume con­duct­ing trans­ac­tions.

The dis­rup­tion on Sep­tem­ber 25 af­fect­ed the di­vi­sion's tech­ni­cal in­fra­struc­ture, re­sult­ing in dam­age to cer­tain equip­ment and the tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of some ser­vices.

Among the ser­vices af­fect­ed was the en­cash­ment of Gov­ern­ment cheques, po­ten­tial­ly in­con­ve­nienc­ing cus­tomers who re­ly on the fa­cil­i­ty.

The Trea­sury Di­vi­sion said tech­ni­cal teams had made sig­nif­i­cant progress in restor­ing the af­fect­ed sys­tems and had im­ple­ment­ed mea­sures to re­sume nor­mal op­er­a­tions.

How­ev­er, it said re­al-time mon­i­tor­ing of the sys­tems would con­tin­ue as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure to en­sure their sta­bil­i­ty, re­li­a­bil­i­ty and the in­tegri­ty of trans­ac­tions.

Tech­ni­cal pro­fes­sion­als re­main ac­tive­ly en­gaged and are pre­pared to re­spond im­me­di­ate­ly should any fur­ther is­sues arise, the di­vi­sion added.

It as­sured the pub­lic that the mat­ter con­tin­ued to re­ceive the high­est pri­or­i­ty, with all nec­es­sary mea­sures be­ing tak­en to main­tain con­ti­nu­ity of ser­vice and min­imise fur­ther in­con­ve­nience to cus­tomers.

The di­vi­sion al­so thanked cus­tomers for their pa­tience and un­der­stand­ing dur­ing the pe­ri­od of dis­rup­tion.

The restora­tion of ser­vices comes two days af­ter the elec­tri­cal fault dis­rupt­ed op­er­a­tions, with the di­vi­sion now main­tain­ing ad­di­tion­al mon­i­tor­ing to iden­ti­fy and ad­dress any po­ten­tial prob­lems.

The Trea­sury Di­vi­sion did not dis­close the cost of the equip­ment dam­aged by the elec­tri­cal fault or pro­vide fur­ther de­tails on the ex­tent of the dam­age.