Public officers’ Sept. 30 salaries have been submitted to banks for processing and are payable as of Friday, Deputy Governor Rosalie Adams announced Friday morning.
She did not say, however, whether they would receive their Oct. 15 payments on time.
On Oct. 2, government announced that public officers’ Sept. 30 payments had been delayed to Oct. 9 because of “technical challenges.”
But on Oct. 8, Ms. Adams announced that they had been delayed again.
“Public officers, as a result of reduced power to the Central Administration Complex, which could not fully sustain government’s server system, there will be a further delay in the processing of payroll for the end of September pay period,” she said in an Oct. 8 statement.
On Friday, she thanked public officers for their dedication, commitment and support” as well as their “willingness to remain committed to the task of rebuilding our Virgin Islands.”
She also praised teams from the Human Resources Department, the Ministry of Finance, the Treasury Department, the Facilities Management Unit, the Department of Information and Public Relations, and the Department of Information Technology for helping to process the payroll.
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