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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1863
18 - 24 March 2021
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€28.9 MILLION INVESTMENT
THE Provincial Council has announced this week that it will be investing €28.9 mil‐ lion within towns in the Malaga Province. According to reports, the province’s small municipali‐ ties will receive the funding, which can be used for any programmes that the councils have planned. Meanwhile, the municipalities will also re‐ ceive a further €6.4 million to be used for other invest‐ ments sanctioned by the Provincial Council. The Provincial Council said it will approve the plan in a council session, which is “the most important after the budget,” according to the deputy responsible, Francisco Oblare. The plan has the support of the political parties Partido Popular (PP), Ciudadanos and of independent Juan Cassa.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL: Will approve the plan in a council session.
Oblare explained each town will receive a minimum of €278,000, with the amount
based on population size and with a maximum of €600,000 handed to the most populat‐
ed municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, in‐ cluding Alora, Torrox, Manilva
Lost Fishermen found
OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil found the four lost Moroccan fishermen in a boat off Nerja. The maritime branch of the Guardia Civil have reportedly located and rescued the crew of a Moroccan fishing boat which had become lost and drifted for four days. The group were rescued in the early hours of Saturday March 13 around two-and-ahalf miles off the coast of Nerja, before being guided back to Motril in their own boat. According to the crew, they had been hired to pick up an old fishing boat in the Moroccan port of Nador and sail it to Tangiers. They set off earlier in March but became lost without navigational equipment or any means of communication.
NERJA: The boat was found 2.5 miles from the coast.
The boat was reportedly in a bad condition and was being brought to Tangiers to be
restored by its new owner, who called the authorities when the crew did not arrive.
After the crew had docked in Motril Port they received food.
and Archidona. The Council also plans to grant funding to towns with
between 20,000 and 25,000 inhabitants, including Coin, Alhaurin el Grande, Cartama and Nerja. Meanwhile, the €6.4 mil‐ lion funding to be used for programmes sanctioned by the Provincial Council will be made up of €5.7 million from the Provincial Council and the rest contributed by the mu‐ nicipalities. Of the €5.7 million, €3.5 million will go towards invest‐ ment in a series of improve‐ ments, including in schools and tourism, while a further €2.2 million is expected to go towards spending and ser‐ vices programmes. The news comes after the head of Costa del Sol Tourism, Francisco Salado, demanded Spain’s central government give the same amount of tourism funding to Malaga as to the Costa del Sol.