No 482
Monday, 12th August, 2013
Tel: 96 673 0057
IN TORREVIEJA WE INVEST!
It is reported that 30% of the entire budget of the municipality of Torrevieja goes on salaries of town hall staff and councillors, who, incidentally, also get free healthcare, glasses and dentistry, all paid for by the residents of course. But, having become synonymous with waste in the past, throwing copious amounts of money at major projects, yet
another such development has now been abandoned in Torrevieja. In recent years, under the management of former Mayor, Pedro Hernández Mateo, we saw the infamous “cigar” project shelved, which was set to become a health spa on the natural salt lakes of the city, at a cost of 1.5 million euro, only one of the three buildings ever materialised, and even that was never completed, before the project was halted in the middle of the decade. Continued on Page 2