Sev­er­al chair­men and may­ors of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled re­gion­al and bor­ough cor­po­ra­tions are com­plain­ing that is­sues with pay­ments from the cen­tral Gov­ern­ment are im­pact­ing the func­tion­ing of their cor­po­ra­tions.

But in an im­me­di­ate re­sponse, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen said that on­ly one cor­po­ra­tion, the San Juan/Laven­tille Cor­po­ra­tion, re­ceived a late cheque, re­sult­ing in late pay­ments to staff.

“It was not re­port­ed to me by ei­ther the chair­man or the CEO. It on­ly came to my at­ten­tion when a work­er sent a memo is­sued by the chair­man to work­ers, in­di­cat­ing the sit­u­a­tion. I im­me­di­ate­ly in­ter­vened, and the mat­ter was rec­ti­fied by our per­ma­nent sec­re­tary the very same day.