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The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, today held its traditional meeting with the media to congratulate Christmas, when the first municipal authority took stock of what happened over this year as well as the challenges in 2012 that is about to begin.

In terms of achievements, highlighted Barreiro, the inauguration of the Hospital of St. Lucia, the opening of the Pinwheel Park, soon to expand the archaeological heritage of the city, the Pearl District Greenway, as well as a range of facilities that have come forward in recent years, a total of 150 works since 2008, which involves an investment of 30 million euros from the Plan E and Plan of Municipal Districts and Councils.

But there is a thorn stuck, the numbers of unemployed, our greatest drama, according to the mayor, we try to address and encourage open lines of work, as the service sector, mainly tourism, yielding encouraging data as in the year 2011 has increased by 15 percent the number of foreign visitors and by 7 percent the number of domestic tourists.

Specifically, this year the city passed 336,000 visitors, of which 45 percent were foreigners, 37 percent nationally and 18 percent from the region.

Pilar Barreiro did not want to ignore the issue of crisis, for which the City has developed an austere budget for 2012, according to the needs to address the deficit, to be adopted in the early days of the year and go ahead, let savings of around one million euros, thanks to which it has reduced by 4 million cost of contracts with the concessionaires.

And challenges for the coming year.

The mayor believes that economic recovery is possible, there is for example the construction of a new plant tailings, and the goal is to recover the investment, for which the keys are building credibility, trust, wealth and employment, which lines the City will continue to pursue.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena