No 650
Monday 16th - Sunday 22nd January, 2017
Tel: 637 227 385
Invitation to Mayor and his Councillors
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hen I first arrived in Cabo Roig over 15 years ago, the Orihuela Costa was a popular ‘all year round’ destination. It was a thriving community, clean, well populated and most importantly, the businesses were doing well. But to say that the municipality now looks ‘rather tired’ would be somewhat of an understatement. The neglect began 7 or 8 years ago under the watch of the Councillor for the Coast at the time, Cllr Aniorte, and it has been declining at a steady rate ever since. But even at that stage the problems were being identified to the council by local groups and organisations, with the usual resultant assurances. Unfortunately though, as often as the promises were being made by the council they were also being broken.
There was a short period, during the tenure of Councillor Martina Scheurer, when things improved, but for the last 12 months or more the situation has again been in decline. The situation is similar across the whole of the region and in recent months many urbanisations and communities are now beginning to take it upon
themselves to do something about it. They are fed up with the Orihuela Council’s failure to provide basic services to residents and the businesses on the coast. In Cabo Roig one resident
became so discontented that a little over 12 months ago he formed the ‘Cabo Roig Clean Up Committee’ which now meets every Friday morning to tidy up around the local area. Continued on Page 2