More than 99 per cent of government salary payments delayed after the rollout of BiMPay have now been issued, the Central Bank of Barbados said on Friday, with about 160 payments still outstanding.

In an update on efforts to resolve the issue, the Bank said that of approximately 27 366 salary payments due to central government employees, the Barbados Revenue Authority and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 27 206 have now been processed.

It added that the position across statutory corporations was “broadly similar”, with most workers also having received their salaries.