No 779 Monday 26th August - Sunday 1st September, 2019 Tel: 637 227 385 Serving the community, in print and online, for over 15 years - The Costa Blanca’s oldest ‘FREE’ English language newspaper
What is the cost of a young life? Virtually every summer there are drownings in private community swim-
ming pools across the province, and only last week, at the Aldeas de
Aguamarina urbanisation in Cabo Roig, 3 year old Avery Greene tragically lost his young life in one such community. The shameful reality is that, of the 7,000 private swimming pools that are in use in urbanisations across the Alicante region, only 140 employ the services of a lifeguard. So have we really become such an uncaring society where financial considerations are put above those of a young life?
It is a national outrage that the number of attended pools equates to just one in fifty in this part of Spain, but even there, where such a provision is made, hundreds of holidaymakers largely ignore community rules in respect of opening times, as is evidenced by many of the drownings occuring ‘out of hours’ when the pools are unattended by suitably trained staff. Continued on Page 02