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Human Services Commissioner Says Daycare Vendors To Receive Pay Monday Or Tuesday

Last week, a frustrated Dept. of Human Services vendor, who runs the La Petite Daycare in Frederiksted, contacted VI Consortium and revealed that it had been months since the government paid her for her services. And this week, the VI Consortium has learned that Human Services Commissioner Christoper E. Finch says the business owner and others like her will be paid for their services, either today or Tuesday. Carol Donowa said although she needed to pay employees last Friday, she had no idea where the money would come from to do so. Unrelated to VI Consortium running Donowa's story, Senator Nellie Rivera-O'Reilly, also hearing from distressed daycare owners, coincidentally wrote a letter to Finch requesting action be taken on the matter. In the letter, obtained by VI Consortium, Rivera-O'Reilly said she had received "a number of calls from day care operators indicating that they have not been paid (some of them since September)." The letter pointed out that many of the d...