The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion has re­ceived a cheque val­ued at just over $2 mil­lion to fa­cil­i­tate the pay­ment of June 2026 salaries for its month­ly paid em­ploy­ees.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne shared an im­age of the cheque on so­cial me­dia, an­nounc­ing that “good sense and truth have fi­nal­ly pre­vailed” af­ter the Cor­po­ra­tion re­ceived the fund­ing from the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

The may­or said the City Trea­sur­er’s De­part­ment is pro­cess­ing the salary pay­ments for the cor­po­ra­tion’s civ­il ser­vants. Al­leyne thanked em­ploy­ees for their pa­tience dur­ing the salary de­lay but warned that the cor­po­ra­tion’s fi­nan­cial chal­lenges re­main.