Salaries owed to play­ers, of­fi­cials and man­age­ment of the Hoop of Life Com­mu­ni­ty Bas­ket­ball, were, in part, re­leased yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing lo­gis­ti­cal prob­lems en­coun­tered by man­age­ment.

With­in the next week, pay­ments of the month­ly stipends, which are val­ued at $1,000 per play­er, are ex­pect­ed to be paid in full since the back­log, which be­gan in De­cem­ber.

This was ac­cord­ing to the league's com­mis­sion­er, Kei­th Clement.

Speak­ing to the Trinidad Guardian, Clement as­sured that salaries were be­ing re­leased yes­ter­day. Fund­ing for the crime-pre­ven­tion ini­tia­tive is be­ing car­ried by the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, which launched the pro­gramme back in Oc­to­ber, last year.

Over 1,000 play­ers, man­agers, coach­es, ad­min­is­tra­tors and oth­er of­fi­cials are among those who are set to re­ceive stipends. This was the cause of back­log, ac­cord­ing to Clement, who said that the is­sues were lo­gis­ti­cal. Salaries were last is­sued in De­cem­ber.

"There is a process and, it's over 700 play­ers we have to is­sue salaries for," said Clement.

He added: "This is the in­au­gur­al pro­gramme. We are go­ing to stum­ble up­on is­sues. We ex­pect that the flu­en­cy of the pro­gramme will im­prove over time."The play­ers, ac­cord­ing to Clement, will be paid in ac­cor­dance to their re­spec­tive sec­tors.