E W N 27 March - 2 April 2014 / Axarquía - Malaga East
Motril to help Romanians MOTRIL Council has renewed its promise to help the Romanian community with its administrative paperwork. Mayor of Motril Luisa Garcia Chamorro, Councillor for Immigration Teresa Morales, and Romanian Consul Manuel Plesa have all signed a new agreement. This consists of, among other things, the council letting Romanians use Alamos Intercultural Centre, free of charge, once a month in order to facilitate the administrative paperwork needed by the immigrant population. The Romanian population grew by 3.4 per cent in 2013 and is the second largest foreign group in the area.
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ABANDONED: Beaches in the Eastern Costa del Sol.
PP seeks beach deal
ANTONIA RUIZ, Partido Popular (PP) member of the Andalucia Parliament
and delegate for the Commission for Tourism and Commerce, has asked
the Junta de Andalucia for a new agreement on buoys and beach cleaning on the
Pair accused of burglary spree NATIONAL POLICE in Motril, Granada, have arrested two men in relation to local break ins.
The men have been accused of burgling two local businesses. They gained access to the premises by throwing cobblestones through the shop windows of a petrol station and a bakery, then taking with them anything that could be carried.
According to police reports, the two men were caught in the act by a patrol car and immediately took off on foot, in opposite directions, only to be captured later. They have been linked to other thefts in the area.
Axarquia beaches. She has been refused. There was a three-year agreement in place in 2009 which stated the Andalucia Government would subsidise part of the maintenance costs of the beaches but this ended in 2011 and, since then, there has been no help, or money, from the government. Maintenance has continued and the Axarquia is accruing debts to the companies that take care of the beaches. Ruiz pointed out the “abandonment” of the government could not continue, that the Eastern Costa del Sol should not be left to fend for itself.
Experimental station suffers cutbacks Scientific Studies (CHSS) this is not what was agreed with the government, which promised there would be no cutbacks when the station became the Mediterranean Subtropical Fruit and Vegetable Institute after an agreement with the University of Malaga. Heredia commented that the 24 CHSS centres in Andalucia had gone from THE Guardia Civil have intercepted more than 1,500 2,212 employees to only kilos of hashish from a boat in the Cala de Maro. 1,905 although the cuts in A total of 20 people have been arrested so far in this La Mayora were the most anti-drug operation in Nerja including a National severe. policeman and a Guardia Civil officer. Margarita del Cid, PP According to police sources, the courts in Veleznational delegate for Malaga have kept 15 of the accused on remand, all for Malaga, replied that this crimes against public health. As the case moves on they was due to “temporary and are also expected to be accused of money laundering, extraordinary” debts bribery, and belonging to an organised crime group. accrued in an irresponsible Among the five released pending a judicial hearing way by the previous were the two law enforcement officers. government.
LA MAYORA Experimental Station in Algarrob has gone from 119 employees in 2011 to 100 in 2014, a drop of 19 per cent in only three years, according to Miguel Angel Heredia, PSOE delegate. According to the Centre for Higher
Hash haul nets 20
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Midwife honoured RINCON DE LA VICTORIA’S Women’s Association has paid tribute to one of its most loved figures from the past, Carmen Lopez Bravo, a midwife who helped many mothers in the area and who died in 1963.
Muggers held FOUR women aged between 27 and 35 were arrested in Malaga for allegedly stealing a handbag from a woman and attacking her friend when she tried to stop them.
Teacher tribute A SERVICE for retired teacher Abelardo Genaro Belmonte, who died in a fire at his home in Granada, was well attended by the people of Baza, where he taught for many years.
Tree day GUADIX COUNCIL has proposed planting trees in educational centres in order to celebrate World Forest Day. A thousand pine tree cuttings have been donated for the students to plant.
Staff threat A MAN, 41, has been arrested in Malaga for allegedly causing damage at three businesses and threatening to kill clients and staff.
Logo winner CARLOS CAPELLA, from Malaga, has won the competition to design the new Motril logo. He beat the other 80 competitors with a design featuring the sun.