Puerto del Carmen will finally have New Year's Eve fireworks, which will be paid for by businessmen from the Playa Grande area. This was announced by the mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz, who stated that after the offer from the businessmen, the City Council has already taken charge of the bureaucratic procedures.
In this sense, early this Monday, the City Council has already met with the company supplying the fireworks, which has guaranteed the availability of the necessary material. Likewise, Cruz pointed out that the City Council has already processed the authorization before the General Directorate of Coasts and that the City Council's technicians are already working on the preparation of the Security Plan.
"The City Council could not do them for economic reasons," insisted the mayor of Tías, who responded to the spokesperson for CC, Amado Vizcaíno, who accused the government group of trying to "deceive" the population by relying on economic reasons for not holding the activities, arguing that the expense would not affect the 2019 budgets but rather the 2020 budgets, as the Christmas activities would take place in the last days of December.
"When the events are programmed, there must be a credit retention and if there is no credit, little can be retained," said José Juan Cruz, who explained that "it was 9,000 euros" and that "there was nowhere to get them from." "And since there wasn't, I can't throw them away and then tell the auditor or the staff to make the credit retention in 2020, because the legal thing to do is to do it before," said the mayor of Tías, who also believes that "there are priorities." "Because people are having a hard time," he added.
