Longstanding delays in the disbursement of child maintenance funds paid to the courts are primarily a function of understaffing and are a “high priority” to be resolved, according to Supreme Court Registrar Camille Darville-Gomez in an interview with Perspective.

Our interview with Gomez is a follow-up to Perspective’s initial report last week on the matter impacting hundreds of parents and their children in New Providence.

Last year, beneficiaries of child support were advised that the system of direct deposits to beneficiary bank accounts instituted several years earlier had been stopped, and that cheques for the same were to be collected at the Magistrate’s Court.

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