THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 14 - 18 Issue No. 1922
Urban spring festival THE Primavera Ur‐ ban Festival held over the long week‐ end of April 30 to May 2 in Velez‐ Malaga was a huge success, with nearly 8,000 people at‐ tending the concert on Saturday night, just one of the free events organised by the town hall. The crowd en‐ joyed an evening of reggaeton, trap, pop and flamenco with Camin, Danny Romero and Juanlu Montoya as the main acts. After two years of restrictions due to the pandemic, a sense of normality has finally returned to Velez‐Malaga, beginning with a jam‐packed musical weekend dedicated to the celebration of spring, with the help of various na‐ tionally renowned artists and DJs. Thousands of young and not‐so‐ young people sang and danced against the emblematic and unparalleled back‐ drop of the Cerro de San Cristobal. The entertain‐ ment continued with more music on Sunday, and there were themed stands, a Harry Pot‐ ter escape room, retro gaming con‐ soles and board game tournaments on Monday.
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Free transport for over-65s RESIDENTS of Almuñecar and La Herradura who are over 65 years of age and pensioners can apply for the M65 card for free travel on urban transport in the municipality from Wednesday, May 4, at the town hall and the Civic Centre of La Herradura. The Almuñecar Town Hall and the urban public transport company Roalfa Transporte Urbanos SL (Grupo Fajardo) have signed a collaboration agree‐ ment for the implementation of the M65 card to promote and facilitate free access to public trans‐ port for pensioners who are over 65 years of age and/or have disabilities and who are registered in the municipality, said the councillor for Finance, Rafael Caballero. “The Almuñecar Town Council has included in its 2022 budget an amount to cover the costs of the vouchers,” he said. The M65 card will be valid in‐ definitely and will be issued once the individual has proven that they meet the requirements.
TORROX: Mayor Oscar Medina and Paula Moreno spoke about achieving their population goal.
T O R R OX now has more than 20,000 inhabitants. On Friday April 29, the mayor, Óscar Medina, and the councillor for Personnel and Finance, Paula Moreno, spoke of their satisfaction at hav‐ ing achieved their popu‐ lation goal. According to the town hall’s statistics, Torrox currently has 20,886 in‐ habitants, a figure that continues to grow. This will bring great benefits to the municipality, in‐ cluding more economic resources from the State and an increase in munic‐ ipal staff and therefore more job opportunities. This increase in popula‐ tion will also have an im‐ pact on the 2023 munici‐ pal elections, as Torrox
will have 21 councillors instead of the current 17. According to Paula Moreno, there were ex‐ actly 15,371 inhabitants registered in Torrox in 2015, when the Partido Popular took over the mayor’s office and set the goal of reaching 20,000 “in order for Tor‐ rox to regain the impor‐ tance that other govern‐ ment teams had not given it.” She also highlighted that being the second oldest town in Axarquia, Torrox had always been significant within the province of Malaga. “We are a dynamic government that is com‐ mitted to Torrox and the people of Torrox and all the promotional actions
that we have put in place have borne fruit,” she said. She listed the improve‐ ment of infrastructures, better beaches and the unprecedented cultural, leisure and sporting offer as factors that make peo‐ ple want to stay in Tor‐ rox, as well as other charms, such as the cli‐ mate, the gastronomy and the ability to “make each tourist feel like one of us.”
OVER 65s: To be given free access to public transport.