Africa-Press – Cape verde. The president of the Sotavento Chamber of Commerce (CCS) acknowledged, this Wednesday, 30, the Government’s attention to mitigating the crisis caused by covid-19 and increased by the war in Ukraine and said that he is analyzing the announced measures “with some attention”.
Marcos Rodrigues, who was speaking to the press on the sidelines of a working meeting with the secretary-general of the National Union of Workers of Cape Verde – Union Central (UNTC-CS), Joaquina Almeida, said that the CCS is analyzing the recent measures announced. by the Government to mitigate the effects of the crisis with “some attention”.
This official acknowledged, however, the Government’s attention in this regard, highlighting the issue of corporate sustainability.
“It is good that the Government is attentive and that it is, finally, analyzing the problems that exist from the point of view of the issue of companies because that is where the workers are too and that is where the bosses are”, he stressed.
According to the president of the CCS, any slippage that may exist in the market in relation to the cooling of consumption, will be in a “complicated situation” of employability, because, he justified, “the bosses cannot continue to withstand the workforce, not having, finally, the generation of wealth”.
frozen prices
The Government announced last week some measures to mitigate the effects of the international crisis, among them it decided to keep the prices of butane gas and fuels for electricity production unchanged, in April, and to establish a maximum margin of increase of up to 5% the current price, for other petroleum products, namely diesel and gasoline.
The Executive also decided to stabilize wheat, corn, rice, cooking oil and powdered milk, in addition to reinforcing inspection actions to avoid hoarding of essential food products and avoid price speculation.
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