Haiti – Politic : No fuel price increase for the moment (official)

Haiti – Politic : No fuel selling price increase for the instant (formal)
27/04/2022 09:41:08

Following rumors suggesting an forthcoming upward revision of fuel costs, the Ministry of Interaction informs the population “that no improve in the price tag of gasoline at the pump is prepared.”

Even so, any rumor obtaining an origin, it ought to be remembered that Michel Patrick Boisvert, the Minister of Finance experienced declared a couple times in the past that “the increase in fuel prices was unavoidable” and that the Govt was awaiting the settlement of the actors of the oil sector to established the day for new improves… https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36464-haiti-information-zapping.html

Pertaining to the “fuel shortage”, the Ministry confirms that “new gas orders will get there no afterwards than this weekend in Haiti, recalling that since the selection to liberalize the import of petroleum solutions, “orders are directly from distributors of petroleum items,” implying in between the lines that this shortage and the delays would be attributable to the distributors.

However, it is value remembering that a couple of times back the Federal government handed more than 1.3 billion Gourdes to the oil organizations, a partial volume of a financial debt of the Point out, which should really make an additional payment of its credit card debt soon, so the oil organizations can have ample hard cash to purchase gasoline… this currently being additional possible the induce of the delays…

Finally, the Ministry assures that the Government continues to be attentive to the evolution of the global market place in the context of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and guarantees, by means of the Ministry of Commerce and its brokers in the field, the administration of shares to avoid speculations.

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre