| The PAICV and the MpD will, through their respective leaders, sign a memorandum of understanding today aimed at revising Cape Verde’s Constitution. The two parties managed to come to an agreement regarding access to and the functioning of the Supreme Court of Justice and the High Council of Judicial Magistrates. However, another knot in negotiations – the officialization of Crioulo, the Cape Verdean language – had to be set aside for the time being in a concession made by the governing PAICV, our sources has learned.
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| Jorge Santos, the leader of opposition party MpD, arrived Tuesday on the island of Santo Antão to verify the extent of the damage caused by the recent flash floods in the municipality of Ribeira Grande. Santos has already visited stretches of the road linking the town of Ribeira Grande (also known as Povoação) to the villages in Ribeira Grande valley, which was partially destroyed this weekend, and intends to express his solidarity with those affected.
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| Reducing unemployment among younger age brackets, promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship, guaranteeing ways to continue one’s studies on the level of higher learning and creating the conditions to facilitate home ownership among young adults are, according to Janira Hopffer Almada, the three main points on the youth agenda of Prime Minister José Maria Neves, who is running for re-election as the leader of governing party PAICV.
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|  “New times, new answers” is the commitment that will be made by Prime Minister José Maria Neves in his run for re-election as the president of the governing PAICV political party this Saturday, September 12, when he will stand before his party’s members. The strategy motion to be presented tomorrow will usher in a new period for the PAICV’s long-standing leader.
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| The government of Cape Verde has promised to reduce the cost of short deeds by 20 percent and to eliminate fees to help the local companies cope with the current economic crisis. |
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