In recognition of World Mental Health Day, Torrevieja’s Centre for Rehabilitation and Social Integration, CRIS, or Centro de Rehabilitación e Integración Social, was the location for the reading of the proclamation, “Inclusive education, positive mental health”, in collaboration with ADIEM, in which the mayor of the town, José Manuel Dolón and the councilor of the Presidency and Government, Domingo Soler …

The councillor for young people in Torrevieja, Víctor Ferrández, has presented the 2018 autumn youth activity schedule, aimed at young people from 12 to 35,  and held mostly in the Centro de información y animación juvenil (CIAJ). The councilor explained that there are more than 25 activities available, which include leisure events, employment and training courses and workshops. The councillor …

Initial plans and preparations are underway for an earthquake emergency drill, which is set to take place on November 14. Last week, the local coordination centre, CECOPAL, was the location where the first working meeting took place in order to start the formal preparations for the drill. The meeting, chaired by the mayor, José Manuel Dolón, is part of the …

Torrevieja´s Municipal Commission of School Absenteeism, chaired by the mayor, José Manuel Dolón, held a meeting this week in which final approval was given for an innovative project which aims to reduce school truancy. The councillor for education, José Hurtado, explained that October 30 is the date when the project will begin, and will, hopefully, reduce absenteeism rates. The councillor …

The town hall in the Toledo town of Villafranca de los Caballeros has announced that it has withdrawn subsidy for bull fights this year. Instead, the 18,000 euro set aside in the annual budget will be used for an aid program to subsidise school text books and supplies for families who are facing financial difficulties. […]

The Regional Education department of Valencia has agreed with the educational community and will delay the start of the first school term in September. Many workers in the education sector believed that a return to work on the 3rd of September was too soon after they finished at the start of June, and proposed a […]

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolon, met with Sergey Kravtsov last Tuesday, the President of the Federal Agency for Monitoring, Education and Science in Russia, who was in the area primarily to meet with the city's Russian residents, of which there ...

The President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, received the Regional Councillor for Education of Murcia, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, at Moncloa Palace earlier this week. ​At their meeting, the two leaders discussed the issues of most concern ...

Alicante's Archaeological Museum (MARQ) received 53 containers into its charge last Monday which hold over 200 display pieces that will be put together to showcase "The Last Voyage of the frigate Mercedes', an exhibition that will open its doors in the centre from next Monday 9 March.

Organized by the MARQ, in conjunction with the Spanish Cultural Association, the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defense, exhibits, which have been brought together from over a dozen institutions, recounts the sinking of the frigate Mercedes, with the loss of two hundred and sixty-three people, and the political and military circumstances surrounding this act which took place in October 1804.

Amongst the boxes opened on their arrival were a number holding pieces of armament including a pistol dating back to 1760, a Spanish rifle of the same year and a blunderbuss from the early nineteenth, all courtesy of the Cartagena naval museum.

The travelling exhibition is dedicated to the gold bullion ladened frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, which sank in 1804 and was recovered by the Spanish government after winning a lawsuit brought against the salvage company Odyssey in the US courts.

It explains the circumstances and historical ramifications of the ship's fatal explosion, focusing on the archaeological aspect of the assets recovered from the wreck and touching upon the Spanish government's legal battle to retrieve an important part of their national heritage.

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In view of the dramatic crisis that Spain is suffering, when one out of every five people live in unemployment, when we are in the sights of Europe, when we do not yet know how the current situation of hardship for many families will finish, the thinkers of this Government are devoted to invent tension situations that generate clashes among ordinary people.

Why after 75 years talk about the subject of the civil war to re-create hatreds between people? This topic has already been settled for many years but now this is about creating tension, by straying attention from more important issues, even if it involves bringing the Spaniards into conflict again.

Why make a law on religious freedom trying to distort roots and traditions of people who in their vast majority are and have always been catholic? It is false that there are so many Buddhists, Mormons, Adventists, etc. in Spain.

With another recent law, they emptied the content of the institution of marriage putting it on a level with the same-sex unions and facilitating the dissolution of it with the express divorce. No one thought that this is what actually generates more gender violence.

They have imposed the children and adolescents indoctrination in the official doctrine, through a subject that they called "Education for Citizenship" (in Catalonia is pure and hard pornography), but in reality is only a model to deform the youth.

On the other hand, they have eliminated religion classes and have undermined parent's authority in children's education, making that they can not be given them a slap to correct them. . . And there are parents who believe in it. It is ridiculous!

They have destroyed the legal protection of the most defenseless human beings, those who have not yet been born, allowing 16-years-old girls have an abortion without any obstacle and parental consent. This law is macabre.

This whole approach responds to a strategically designed plan and is put into practice after repeat many times the same ideas until catch on society little by little. In order to do this, they have used all kinds of false arguments and half-truths that the media don't stop hammering.

They have been proposed delete honorable things that still retains the society and in particular, everything that has relation with Christian doctrine and Law of God. Due to they are atheists, they want to impose by force atheism in others and to do this they have strong persuasive forces.

Isabel Costa

Independent Forum of Opinion