SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Casimiro Curbelo has been proclaimed this Friday president of the Cabildo de La Gomera in what is his ninth legislature at the head of the Island Corporation and has insisted that the support obtained at the polls “is not a blank check, but a contract with conditions to continue responding to the demands of the Gomerans and La Gomeras”, because he is convinced that “the best pages in the island’s history are yet to be written”.
This was stated after the act of constitution of the new Corporation, in which he took stock of the management carried out during the last legislature and advanced the lines of action for the next four years, aimed at strengthening sustainability from planning and improving people’s quality of life.
Regarding the island of the future, Casimiro Curbelo pointed out that work is already underway because “our children and our grandchildren have the right to enjoy this treasure and the duty, like the one we have, to know how to preserve it,” he said in his speech. , before detailing the set of measures provided for in the Gomera36 strategy, which will be “one of the engines of action in this legislature.”
Thus, he affirmed that now it is time to make La Gomera a “more sustainable economically, socially and environmentally” place, for which he alluded to the commitment “shared with the State, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo”, which foresees an investment of 730 million euros to be carried out in 14 years. “This is the biggest planning challenge in history, which will mark a before and after for the island,” he asserted.
Curbelo also emphasized economic diversification with a “firm bet” for the recovery of cultivation areas, the availability of more water resources and measures to promote generational renewal in the primary sector. In addition, he advanced the creation of an insular trade school, “because we need professionals in different fields”, together with the promotion of professionalization and qualification, encouraging the creation of employment from the private initiative, “in accordance with the activation of dual training and employability programs from the public”.
He insisted on communications as another “key” matter. As he argued, “nobody progresses if there is no communication. If there is no exchange of social and economic synergies.” In this sense, he detailed the improvements that are already underway on roads such as those that connect Paredes-Alajeró-Airport, the Vallehermoso Bypass, or the access to Arguayoda. Like those planned for El Clavo-Avalos, which will link the Island Hospital with the Port, the adaptation of the GM-2 between San Sebastián and Degollada de Peraza, of the access roads to the Barranco de Santiago, or those planned in Agulo and Hermigua. “Without leaving aside those already awarded for the stabilization of slopes and the false tunnel in the access to Valle Gran Rey,” he listed.
He announced that he will not cease in the effort to articulate a Public Service Obligation between the Green Islands, as well as opening new air connections with other islands, ending the collapse of the Port of Los Cristianos and the creation of a tunnel for its connection with the TF-1. “And, of course, the construction of the new Port of Playa de Santiago and the improvement of communications and port infrastructure in Valle Gran Rey,” he reaffirmed.
He valued the role of youth as a synonym of opportunity and pointed to culture as an “expression of our identity.” In the same way, he stressed the role of sport as an instrument of learning and perseverance, “embodied in the Gomeras and Gomeras who are already a reference in multiple disciplines.” The Silbo Gomero had a separate mention, “which is a treasure passed down from generation to generation, the identity of this island, and which has been universal since 2009.”
Tourism focused part of his words, in which he assured that La Gomera will strengthen its “singular model with the Destination Tourism Sustainability Plan”, although he warned of the need for tourism modernization plans to materialize in the Canary Islands and speed up the fate renewal. “A good job has been done in the legislature that is ending, but it is urgent to reform the public administration to respond to this reality,” he pointed out.
Regarding housing, he specified that the measures planned with Visocan for the provision of public housing on a rental basis will be intensified. “We will be more demanding so that in this legislature we advance in the programmed objectives”, he pointed out.
COMMITMENT TO THE CITIZENSHIP
One of the main values of public management is the commitment to people. This was evidenced by Curbelo in his speech, in which he reiterated that the social shield applied in La Gomera “is the guarantee of an egalitarian society.” This statement was accompanied by a decalogue of implemented measures linked to families, students, groups, entities and the most vulnerable sectors.
“I am referring to the important role of the Cabildo in the creation of the network of socio-health centers, in the implementation of scholarships, health aid, or cooperation with associations that carry out extraordinary work on the island,” he said.
The public services bring together other of the demands of Curbelo, who announced that he will continue working to have “health services that meet the needs of La Gomera.” To this end, he recalled that “significant advances” have materialized with the new TAC, the start of the installation of Magnetic Resonance and the work to have a Day Hospital Center. “Challenges that are already beginning to be achievements, and that open the door to continue increasing the portfolio of health services”, he added.
Along with Health, he alluded to Education in a commitment to increase the training offer and, also, to respond to the deficits presented by educational infrastructures in the island area. “This is another of the marked challenges,” she said.
He finished his speech by betting on a legislature marked by dialogue, for which he invited the rest of the political groups to collaborate “in contributing the best of each one for the well-being of the citizens of La Gomera and in making this Cabildo continue to be the heart of our island”, he added.
