The Comunidad de Regantes de Río Verde, Jete/Almuñécar won their court case, burying the proposed golf course in Almuñécar forever.
Tag Archive for vega
Crop Loss Will Cause Job Losses
by Vivienne Hughes •
The hailstone downpour on the 29th of August wiped out 100% of the Rio Verde vega’s crop yield, says the Town Hall and other experts.
Blue Zone Squabble Grows
by Hugh MacArthur •
The IU Spokesman in Salobreña, Angel Coello, quickly responded to Mª Carmen Rodríguez Callejón’s (Councillor for Citizen Safety) press release.
Special Office for Legalizing Cortijos
by Martin Myall •
The Motril Town Hall, probably as recognition of the immensity of the task, has opened an office to deal with the thousands of people who want to legalize their cortijos in the municipality.
Important Meeting in Motril
by Martin Myall •
If you have an ‘illegal cortijo’ in the Motril Vega, or anywhere else in its municipality, you might want to go along to the meeting on the 3rd of April. The venue is the Teatro Calderón de la Barca and the meeting starts at 20.00h.
Baza’s Solidarity Market Gardens
by Martin Myall •
The Mayor of Baza, Pedro Fernández, has requested a grant for 114,000 euros to create 50 vegetable plots, each with an area of 200 sq/m, to provide food for the unemployed. The money will also be used to train workers as farm labourers to work on existing farmland that requires a workforce.
Test Video: Salobreña
by Martin Myall •
A view from the Salobreña vega on the wet morning of the 6th of November, 2012.
Cunning vs. Greed: 1-0
by Martin Myall •
The Guardia Civil in Salobreña and Churriana de la Vega are looking for five people who swindled elderly people using the ‘estampita’ and the ‘tocomocho’ techniques
Expensive Water
by Martin Myall •
Sometimes we only react to the price of electricity as end consumers; but that is only one place where it hits us. It also hits us indirectly when when we go out and buy something. Take the case of the Almuñécar farmers in the vega…
Salobreña Vega Fire
by David Darby •
A large fire broke out in the Salobreña vega (plantation) just along the river Guadalfeo, near the border with Motril. Motril Firefighters attended the scene in three fire trucks and extinguished the fire, which was no mean feat as they were hampered by high winds that were fanning the flames. Despite the prompt intervention of…