SHAS­TRI BOODAN

The Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) plans to as­sist small busi­ness­es to get back on their feet when the re­tail sec­tor opens on Mon­day.

Cham­ber Pres­i­dent, Mukesh Ram­s­ingh, con­firmed the Cham­ber’s plans to Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day, as he made the an­nounce­ment of its vac­ci­na­tion ini­tia­tive this week­end—the Cham­ber would be do­ing walk-ins for the As­tra Zeneca Vac­cine start­ing on Sun­day.

Ram­s­ingh said sev­er­al busi­ness­es would not be able to restart be­cause of a num­ber of con­straints. He said the Cham­ber plans to get these busi­ness­es mov­ing us­ing an on­line plat­form for mar­ket­ing.

The CPLCC pres­i­dent al­so was con­fi­dent there would not be a large num­ber of busi­ness­es re­main­ing closed.

“The re­open­ing on Mon­day is very much wel­comed. We un­der­stand that some busi­ness­es will not re­open. For the ones that do re­open, there is go­ing to be a strug­gle as when the food sec­tor opened,” he ob­served.

He added: “Most busi­ness­es are in the cloth­ing sec­tor and these busi­ness­es are tied in with each oth­er. Be­cause of the fact that bars are closed and there are no so­cial events, it’s go­ing to be a strug­gle.”

Ram­s­ingh said the Cham­ber will con­tin­ue its sec­ond dose dri­ve of the Sinopharm Vac­cine on Sat­ur­day. He said the As­tra Zeneca vac­cine would be dis­trib­uted in lim­it­ed amounts and ad­vised per­sons to call the cham­ber to make an ap­point­ment or they can just walk in.