CAPE VERDE WANTS EMIGRANTS BACK
afrol News, 21 May - Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Maria Neves on an official visit to the United States has met with the Diaspora and Cape Verdean students in the US, asking the many skilled emigrants to return to the archipelago, promising them tempting business opportunities. "Obviously," Mr Neves said, currently "Cape Verde has a multitude of business opportunities within a vast range of sectors." The rapid economic development of the last decade had transformed the island state into a "modern and competitive country," he emphasised.

Regarding investments, the Prime Minister announced reduced tax and customs rates for emigrants wanting to do business in Cape Verde. Also government subsidies - as was the case in the recent establishment of the "Cabo Verde Fast Ferry" by two US-based Cape Verdeans - could be made available...
http://www.afrol.com/articles/33320

CABO VERDE FAST FERRY PREPARES FOR BIG BOND SALE
Cabo Verde Fast Ferry, S.A. has filed prospectus documents with the Stock Exchange of Cape Verde that will pave the way for the company to sell more than 13 million euros in corporate bonds...
http://news.caboverdeonline.com/news-and-articles/294


Cape Verde, RISING, WITH EMIGRES' HELP
In 2006, John Monteiro journeyed back for the first time, leading a delegation of investors.
That trip, and four that followed, spawned a $50 million project for high-speed ferries that will start sailing in June 2010, providing reliable transport and new business options for the poorest of the nine inhabited islands of Cape Verde - including Fogo, where Monteiro's family came from. The ferry project is just one of the many ways that New Englanders of Cape Verdean descent, whose roots here stretch back to the 1850s, have helped their tiny homeland transform...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/04/26/cape_verde_rising_with_emigres_help/?page=1


GOVERNMENT APPROVES 100 MIL CONTOS FOR CV FAST FERRY
Working in partnership and committed to launch a permanent maritime solution for the island of flowers, the government of Cape Verde approved an amount of 100 mil contos or approximately 1 million Euros for CV Fast Ferry to provide connectivity for market development and economic opportunities of the island of Brava...
http://news.caboverdeonline.com/news-and-articles/208