ESP Payments Continue
Source: Supplied Wednesday, 10 March 2021 08:16 AM
More than half of the approved recipients of the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) program has been processed to date.
This is according to the ESP Implementation Oversight Committee.
The Committee reveals that 86 percent of the approved applications for projects under the Fisheries Sector together with approved recipients who are Copra buyers have been processed to date.
Over 80 percent of the payments towards recipients who were approved under the Tourism sector have also had their payments processed whilst 70 percent of Kava recipients have been processed.
All approved recipients under Honey and Noni projects have already received their payments.
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