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Barreiro today held its traditional Christmas meeting with media in which he has made one-year balance is settled with a declining unemployment and a promising future thanks to major projects such as the Auditorium, the General Hospital and the Sports Palace

The crisis has failed to stop at Cartagena and this is demonstrated with very encouraging data, as is the fact that, for the first time since 2006, unemployment has continued to grow, the trend is changing and this is good, especially in these times.

This was declared the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, on the balance sheet last year that offered today to the media during his traditional Christmas meeting.

According to Barreiro, in 2010, culminating projects that have been working a long time, as the pedestrian village and opening to the sea through the square of the CIM, which has changed the perception of the city, consolidating Cartagena as a city of services, the breakthrough in the draft windlass, and 45 million euros have been invested to modernize the districts and councils.

The mayor has stressed the importance for city and their way of coping with the crisis has been the recovery of our heritage, promoting the services sector, mainly tourism, which was supported by awards to Cartagena in the last month by experts.

It is also true that with the current economic situation continued Pilar Barreiro, resources are scarce and a sector of the population that is going wrong, what has led us to prioritize in the budget.

Thus, the departure of urgent need of food, which had hardly been used, has grown this year by 58 percent, a figure that illustrates the times we live.

In the immediate future, the first municipal authority considers that what the city is concerned, there are three major projects that will make it even more important to the city, such as the Auditorium, designed to capture a rising tourist sector, the Hospital General of Saint Lucia and the Palacio de Deportes. As far as job creation, Pilar Barreiro believes in the possibilities of three sectors: services, technology and industry.

Finally, the Mayor has identified the major projects that remain to be implemented and in which the City has the homework done, so now the ball is on the roof of the national government, such as the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena the construction of the National Reference Center for Parkinson's.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena