Some offices, households and summer camps ran into a few on-line problems yesterday, when they tried to access the Internet via their TSTT connection.

While many locals suffered due to the decreased Internet capacity level which TSTT experienced yesterday, the cause of the problem originated all the way off the coast of St Croix.

Cables which had been submerged off the northern Caribbean island's coast fed TSTT some of its Internet capacity for users at home.

Yesterday it was discovered that the cable had been damaged. Up to press time, TSTT communications manager Graeme Suite said technicians were still working to find out how the cable, which was several miles below the sea, had been damaged.

Suite said the company was working on repairing the system also.

In the meantime, Web pages, sites and many internet portals either could not be accessed or took what felt like a lifetime to be accessed.

Fortunately the country's other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were not fed from that line and TSTT's other internet lines were up and running, leaving the country with multiple means of accessing the World Wide Web.