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NIJAR SEAFRONT San José in Nijar is to get a new sea front promenade thanks for a 400.000 euro grant from the national government. Senator Rafael Hernandez (PP) said it was an important investment into a major tourism zone and would help improve tourism figures in an area that was economically dependent upon this sector. Work on the promenade started in 1999 but were cancelled for budget reasons in 2000 by the local council. Work Continue reading News across Almeria
Local council says environmental ministry is ‘refusing to carry out its promises’ The Vera town council voted this week to start legal actions against the central government and the Ministry of the Environment for not fulfilling promises made after the 1989 and 2012 floods across Pueblo Laguna. The council says that “concrete measures” against a repeat of the flooding that should have been taken by the central administration have never been carried out, and that Continue reading Vera to sue central government over flood defences
Local council says environmental ministry is ‘refusing to carry out its promises’ The Vera town council voted this week to start legal actions against the central government and the Ministry of the Environment for not fulfilling promises made after the 1989 and 2012 floods across Pueblo Laguna. The council says that “concrete measures” against a repeat of the flooding that should have been taken by the central administration have never been carried out, and that Continue reading Vera to sue central government over flood defences
Local council says environmental ministry is ‘refusing to carry out its promises’ The Vera town council voted this week to start legal actions against the central government and the Ministry of the Environment for not fulfilling promises made after the 1989 and 2012 floods across Pueblo Laguna. The council says that “concrete measures” against a repeat of the flooding that should have been taken by the central administration have never been carried out, and that Continue reading Vera to sue central government over flood defences
Opposition party suggests dropping official foodbank and using British Church instead The ruling council of Turre is “baffled” to have received a number of requests by the opposition PP party to start supporting the local British food bank charity instead of setting up an official banco de alimentos in town – especially since the PP had refused to help the Church when they were last in power! In the last plenary meeting, PP leader and Continue reading British foodbank dragged into local politics
A woman’s life was apparently saved last Thursday after a quick thinking pair of local police officers in Almeria city rescued her from what appears to have been a “satanic ritual”. The 44 year old Uruguayan woman had replied to a job advert, meeting a 43 year man from Madrid in a local bar at six pm. He had discussed the job with her, and then invited her back to his “office” to meet his Continue reading Woman attacked in Satanic ritual
Union CSIF has claimed that nurses in the main provincial hospital “Torrecardenas” were ordered last week to “hide” emergency patients who had been left on wheeled beds in corridors ahead of the visit of regional health minister Aquilino Alonso. The complaint says that “the sub-director of the hospital, together with the head of the Emergency department ordered staff to wheel at least seven patients for whom no beds were available into a storeroom away from Continue reading Bedless hospital patients ‘hidden’ from view of health minister