THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 14 - 17 Issue No. 1906 13 - 19 January 2022
Numbers increase T H E town of Nerja has led the drop in unem‐ ployment throughout the Axarquia region, with 913 fewer people out of work compared to the same month in 2020. That drop puts the town behind Benahavis and Marbella at a provincial level with a 29.9 per cent drop in un‐ employment according to the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy. José Alberto Armijo, mayor of Nerja said: “This data confirms that we are going in the right direction, on the path of economic reactivation and job creation, as a re‐ sult of the recovery of our main economic en‐ gine, national and inter‐ national tourism.” He went on to congrat‐ ulate the business sector and especially the tourism sector, where employment levels are returning to normal. The mayor said that the Municipal Shock Plan saw an investment of nearly €11 million. According to the may‐ or the city’s social exclu‐ sion plan will see a fur‐ ther 83 unemployed people recruited, whilst measures to support the self‐employed and SMEs will remain in place to assist in the hiring of the unemployed and contin‐ ued business activity.
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MARTA SANGO: Hopes to represent Spain at the next Eurovision song contest.
THE first deputy mayor of Velez‐Mala‐ ga and councillor for Tourism, Jesús Pérez Atencia, has met with Marta Sango the singer from Torre del Mar who hopes to represent Spain at the next Eurovision song contest. The event takes place in Turin, Italy, on May 14. Pérez Atencia speaking to local me‐ dia said: “We summoned the media to show all our support for the Torreña singer Marta Sango, who will partici‐ pate in the Benidorm Song Festival on January 26 and 27. The Spanish repre‐ sentative for Eurovision will be chosen at this event, so it is an excellent plat‐ form for the career of our country‐ woman in the music world.” Benidorm will host the two semi‐fi‐
nals and the grand final of the Spanish contest to choose the country’s repre‐ sentative. The two semi‐finals are scheduled for January 26 and 27, with seven artists due to participate. Four of these will be chosen to go on to the fi‐ nal on Saturday January 29. Among them the Torreña Marta Sango. Sango will sing her retro pop song ‘You are still in my mind’, a song with an 80s feel. The song is similar to those which will be included in her new al‐ bum due for release in the spring. Atencia has called for everyone to show their support and to vote for San‐ go so that she can go on to represent Spain. Sango thanked the mayor’s of‐ fice for their support and said: “I am proud to be from Velez‐Malaga.”
THE Cabinet for Nature Studies (GENA‐Ecolo‐ gists in Action) has voiced its opposition to the installation of a wa‐ ter desalination plant in Axarquia, which would help to alleviate the wa‐ ter shortage in the re‐ gion. It is understood that the plant would provide water for the sub‐tropi‐ cal farmers in the area, the plantations current‐ ly relying on rain water for irrigation. GENA have said that the plant should be a “last resort” solution warning that it could result in more farms and ultimately a collapse in the total wa‐ ter supply in the area.
Spokesperson, Rafael Yus said: “desalination should only be consid‐ ered once more sustain‐ able routes have been exhausted.” Continuing he said “we would like to see more efficient use of irrigation, stopping water loss, using tertiary reclaimed water and the replacement of the cur‐ rent irrigation systems with others that have a lower water consump‐ tion.” GENA acknowledge that the plant may be‐ come a reality in time but believe that the high costs of such a system will impact negatively on an already marginal agricultural sector.