THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 24 - 27 ISSUE NO. 1872
20 - 26 May 2021
No problem SERON experienced one of the first fires of the summer in the Los Marteses district on Sunday May 16 but rapid action by Infoca, the Junta’s forest firefighting service, controlled it within minutes as nine firefighters and an environmental officer successfully battled to prevent the blaze from spreading.
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Armed forces FORTY-ONE people, who included three women, were selected from more than 200 applicants who had answered a recruiting announcement by the Ministry of Defence’s Sub-delegation in Almeria. Thirty-seven of the applicants are now in the Army, with the remainder serving in the Air Force and Navy.
Stand-in AGUSTIN CARMONA took over as Albox’s acting mayor after deputy mayor Jose Campoy took sick leave. The latter was standing in for Francisco Torrecillas, still recovering from the aftermath of Covid after spending 51 days in intensive care at the Virgen del Mar and Torrecardenas hospitals.
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Exemplary agriculture CARMEN CRESPO, who heads the Junta’s Agriculture de‐ partment, was full of praise for growers’ “exemplary” achievements since the start of the pandemic. While referring to all of Andalucia in general, she sin‐ gled out Almeria which succeeded in increasing exports by 1.6 per cent between March 2020 and February 2021. Speaking during a visit to one of the big Almeria Province agricultural combines, she applauded the sec‐ tor’s ability to break down barriers and continue its ex‐ pansion into the Asian market. Crespo also drew attention to the growing use of bio‐ logical control to combat plagues by using other mi‐ croorganisms, a technique in which Almeria Province is a world leader, using it in more than 80 per cent of its polytunnels.