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Acting Accountant General in the Department of the Treasury, Mr. Ickford Roberts today announced that Public Servants have begun receiving salaries for the month of July 2021.<\/u><\/u><\/p>

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He said that due to a processing delay, the remaining salaries, which are at the various commercial banks will be paid by the next business day (Wednesday).\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The Treasury official noted that while the country\u2019s revenues continue to experience major decline, due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, the Government assures Public Servants that all will be done to meet monthly payments of salaries, wages, and pensions in a timely manner.<\/p>

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Acting Accountant General in the Department of the Treasury, Mr. Ickford Roberts today announced that Public Servants have begun receiving salaries for the month of July 2021. He said that due to a processing delay, the remaining salaries, which are at the various commercial banks will be paid by the next business day (Wednesday).\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\nGovernment remains committed to meeting Salaries, Wages and Pensions - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Acting Accountant General in the Department of the Treasury, Mr. Ickford Roberts today announced that Public Servants\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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