FESTIVAL OF NEW ANDALUCIAN CINEMA GETS UNDERWAY

Members of the ayuntamiento and the organisers of the Festival of New Andalusian Cinema met the provincial government this week to release details of the program to the press. The second festival runs from Monday, June 8th until June 13th. As a prelude two photographic exhibitions opened today - Almeria de Cine and Homejane a Jose Val de Omar. One is exhibition of landscapes in Algeria that were used in spaghetti westerns and the other is a homage to the director from Granada Jose Val de Omar. During the festival there will be two screenings per day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. Next Friday there will be a concert Pablo Carbonell at Casares disco from 11.30 pm. The festival closes on Saturday 13th with a gala perfomance and prizegivings.

FIVE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE TAKEN ON BY THE AYUNTAMIENTO UNDER EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME

Five people were taken off the dole this week and hired by the Ayuntamiento as part of the programme of employment for the over 30’s. One bricklayer , two labourers and two cleaners will join the municipal staff from next Monday. The Ayuntamiento plans to hire a total of 11 people from the over 30’s age group for three month contracts with a budget of almost 43,000 Euro. The Andalusian Employment Service has a technical committee which chooses the successful candidates for the positions.

DEADLINE GIVEN FOR COMPLETION OF THE BRIDGE LINKING MANILVA WITH CASARES

The Ayuntamiento has given a new deadline of mid November for the completion of work on the new bridge linking Manilva with Casares. The ultimatum was given to the company awarded the contract, Vallejo Aplicaciones and they have agreed to finish the original design. The Mayor of Casares Antonia Morera recently expressed her disquiet at the delay in completing the work which was caused by the company changing the design of the boardwalk. The company failed to meet the original deadline and was warned by the ayuntamiento that they were in breach of contract. Mayor Morera has said she hoped the work will now be speedily finished as the bridge is eagerly awaited by the residents of Casares Costa and Sabinillas.

CASARES TOWN HALL APPROVES 10 MILLION EURO BUDGET FOR 2013

The Town Hall has given its approval to this years’s budget. The total budget will be 10.4 million Euro which falls short of the expected 12 million Euro. That figure has been cut because of the spending cuts and the budgetary laws. However, Mayor Antonia Morera has said that there will be no staff cuts and no cuts to services for residents. There will also be extra contracts tendered by the local authority this year, with 120 available, compared to 90 last year. The budget estimates also include areas which are not strictly the jurisdiction of the local authority, such as health and education. The budget estimates were approved by the ruling United Left (IU) team, and the opposition Peoples Party (PP) and PSOE voted against the plan.