Treasury closure leaves citizens unable to cash Govt cheques

Scores of peo­ple were un­able to cash book grant and oth­er Gov­ern­ment-is­sued cheques at the Trea­sury Build­ing on St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, af­ter the Pay­branch Unit was forced to close be­cause of tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties.

A no­tice post­ed at the build­ing in­formed mem­bers of the pub­lic that the Pay­branch Unit was closed due to tech­ni­cal is­sues.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Fi­nance, the Trea­sury Man­age­ment Branch pro­vides cash­ing fa­cil­i­ties for Gov­ern­ment cheques and is re­spon­si­ble for the dis­burse­ment of par­lia­men­tary funds.