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EWN 23 - 29 March 2023 3 NEWS euroweeklynews.com NIBS EXTRA
Clocks go forward
DAYLIGHT Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 26, 2023, at 2.00am. At this time, clocks will ‘spring forward’ as we welcome in the longer days and sunnier seasons of spring and summer.
Nautical centre
ALMERIA City Council intends to recover possession of the chalet in La Marina. The property on the seafront, which is municipally owned and protected, has been squatted for more than a year and a half and is now set to become the nautical recreational centre of the province.
Adra walkway
A 400-METRE walkway over the sea in Adra is set to be built. The new path, will be a tourist attraction for the municipality and will run from La Albufera to the Lance neighbourhood. The project will have an investment of nearly €700,000.
H20 upgrade
THE HuercalOvera Town Hall is preparing to provide the H2O Sports Centre with new machinery. After the extension of the fitness room, the thousands of users that pass through the centre daily will now have more modern machines at their disposal.
Powerful park
THE ‘City of Bayra Archaeological Park’ will make Vera a ‘powerful tourist attraction’. The project will be carried out in various phases and areas of intervention over the next six years and includes the systematic excavation and archaeological study of the remains exhumed.
Grow up
THE campaign ‘Learn to grow up safely’, will bring the culture of risk and accident prevention to 480 students from 10 schools throughout the province, as well as to their teachers and parents of students.
AGRIFOOD exports to Japan reached a record €164 million in 2022, of which more than half corresponds to olive oil.
The province of Almeria has the lowest export turnover to Japan of all the other Andalucian provinces, with a total of €141,000.
Sevilla is ahead, leading agrifood sales in 2022, contributing 39 per cent of the Andalucian total, with €64 million; followed by Malaga with sales worth €49 million, 29.8 per cent of the total and a growth of 40 per cent compared to the previous year.
The province of Cadiz is in third place with a total of €19.8 million and is the sec ond fastest growing with an increase in sales of 60 per cent compared to 2021.
NIJAR is making great strides in reducing the local crime rate. Nijar is the only town in the region with a population greater than 20,000 in which sexual crimes, violent attacks and burglaries have all decreased.
The latest crime report released by the Ministry of Interior on Monday, March 20 showed a 4 per cent decrease in crime in Nijar compared to data from 2019, which was the last year of data from before the pandemic.
Meanwhile, in the area to the west of Nijar, crime rates have increased by 6 per cent in other towns with populations above 20,000. The data reflects the impressive efforts made by the Local Police and regional police in Nijar whose hard work has paid off in bringing down crime rates. The Local Police force in Nijar is also
