ISSUE NO. 1561
4 - 10 June 2015
AXARQUÍA - COSTA TROPICAL YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
Jobless queues shrink
Senate vote defeat Illegal home-owners groups let down by politicians SPAIN’S senate has voted against an amendment to Land Registry law, which would have created more protection See Page 3 for home buyers.
Job centre queues are shrinking as latest figures show employment levels in Malaga Province are at their highest since 2009. Malaga has led the increase in Andalucia in terms of new active workers, the numbers of which grew by 6,085 people, month on month. Malaga also led the decrease in the unemployment rate, with a total of 3,224 coming off the registered list in May. These good figures have been reflected across the Axarquia with data for Costa Tropical municipalities showing significantly positive results in towns like Motril. A total of 106 residents left the unemployment queues in May, while 287 more contracts were created than in the previous month. Motril Mayor Luisa Garcia Chamorro highlighted that the year-on-year increase of employed people had reached 21.44 per cent, three times the national average, which was 7.81 per cent. The percentage decrease of unemployment figures in the town was 1.51 during May, which was also above the average in Granada Province (0.18 per cent). In May, Malaga Province had a total of 536,311 working residents registered with Social Security, a number almost identical to the same month in 2009. In the last four months, 30,000 job positions have been created in the province, according to the Social Security registry.
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EMPLOYMENT levels at their highest since 2009 By Maria Jose Fernandez
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More help for pupils Parents demand teaching assistant for school A PETITION with 5,500 be recruited for the Narixa signatures sent to the reschool in Nerja has fallen gional government calling on deaf ears, say parents. See Page 4 for a teaching assistant to
Some sweet talking New agri-industry in form of stevia planned AN initiative to establish the production of natural sugar replacement stevia in Velez-Malaga is going well, according to industry representatives. The increasingly popular See Page 5 product could mean good news for jobs.
Homes protest Super-development has sparked angry opposition NERJA residents are up in arms at the proposed construction of 1,880 new homes in the Maro and El Playazo areas. They says such developments will ruin the town’s unSee Page 5 spoiled image.
Angus remembered Brother of our EWN colleague gets on his bike IN memory of Angus Watson, a much-missed member of EWN’s staff who died in February, his
brother James is cycling from London to Brighton for a UK heart charity. See Page 6
Mystery photo quest Can you help to reunite snaps with their owners? WHEN Nerja-based Rowan Hand turned up a stash of old photos in a house clearance, he decided the pictures were too precious to abandon and now he’s trying to trace the See Page 8 English family they feature.