Tag Archive for Almuñécar

Next RNA Meeting

This just to remind you all that the meeting on Tuesday will be at Restaurant Rincon de Peña Parda at the usual time of 1300. I need to tell them how many will be taking the menu del dia (menu as shown at last meeting). So, can you please let me know

Green Women Against Tree Felling

The Almuñécar-based women’s ecologist group, La Asociación de Mujeres Ecologistas Sexitanas, has denounced what they claim to be “extreme tree Felling” on the Paseo del Altillo gardens. They say that around a dozen emblematic trees were cut down from at base level, especially ‘ficus’ (rubber-plant trees) near the car-park entrance. They consider that these trees had formed a fundamental part of the panorama.

Unstable Battlements

Trinidad Herrera, the Mayor of Almuñécar, got together with the Delegate for Culture for the Junta, Pedro Benzal and members of the municipal councillor team to work out what to do with parts of the old-town castle walls, which are in a lamentable state and are in danger of collapsing.

Coendu Can Do It

Coendu S.L, located in Almuñécar, is more than just a consultancy company. Established in the Costa Tropical for more than 20 years, Coendu offers a wide range of advisory, legal, insurance and property services to both the commercial sector and personal clients in our area.

La Herradura Farm Embargoed

Most locals know that Nueva Rumasa was the owner of the Dhul factory in Granada, which went bust, but what most did not know was that Nueva Rumasa also owns a large area of farm land behind La Herradura worth 59m euros – hardly peanuts.

Town Hall Earthquake

The Mayor of Almuñécar, Trinidad herrera (PP), sent out a press release from the Mayor’s Office lamenting the accusations made by four dismissed town-hall staff; Ibarreche Truchero, Roldán Fontana, González Pavesio and Rodríguez Passolas. They have accused her of carrying out repraissals against them…

Almuñécar 45 Million Euro Deficit

The new administration in the Almuñécar Town Hall has had a bit of a shock. The counting has finally finished and the results for the audit which goes back to 2007 and covers the period up until 31 December, 2010, are in.
Unfortunately, the figures show that the administration owes around 45 million euros for the said period, reported the Councillor for Finance, Antonio Laborda.

IBI Increased by 10%

The Association for Small & Medium Business for Almuñécar and La Herradura (APYME) has decried the ‘disproportionate’ rise in property tax (IBI), which went up by 10% for 2012.

A7 Past and Future

With the change of Central Government and a litany of cut backs promised, there is a great deal of concern over the A-7 autovia where it passes through the province of Granada – the only part of this main traffic artery that traverses the whole of the Mediterranean coast of Spain.