This Thursday morning, the Chamber of Commerce office in La Graciosa was inaugurated, which is located in the municipal offices through an agreement signed with the Teguise City Council. The meeting was attended by the Councilor Delegate of La Graciosa, Alicia Páez, the president of the Chamber, José Torres Fuentes, and part of the technical team of the Chamber of Commerce.
According to the chamber, some 50 companies already installed and an undetermined number of projects, yet to be defined, will benefit from this new service to companies, professionals, freelancers and entrepreneurs of the island from this Thursday.
The mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, thanked the Chamber for its initiative to advise the island's commercial and business sector first-hand, "and even more so in these very special circumstances in which we all have to work together."
In-person service by appointment
The office will provide service by appointment on specific days, offering information, advice and monitoring of nascent projects, as well as consultancy and training sessions on demand. The face-to-face assistance will also serve to channel the demands of the business sector to the various public administrations.
The Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with the City Council, has designed a roadmap, taking into account the suggestions collected during the visits made in recent months. The roadmap includes the main problems related to business activity: waste, mobility, tourism and the port.
The chamber highlights the work carried out by the Teguise City Council for the implementation of this initiative, as well as the continuous collaboration of the councilor delegate in La Graciosa, with whom meetings have been held to identify some of the problems facing the eighth island.
As such, it is pointed out that the island needs to improve certain conditions relating to the movement of goods, which affect both the removal of waste and the entry of consumer goods. "The port must improve its pontoons, which are very deteriorated, and the regularity in the supply of some supplies," says the Chamber of Commerce, which also considers that "business and tourism activity must be modulated and regulated for the benefit and quality of life of the residents of the eighth island."
