The Island Council of La Gomera has acquired in the Spanish peninsula a batch of 2.000 fruit trees, which are prepared and made available to local farmers at cost price, as reported by the chairman of the insular corporation, Casimiro Curbelo. He stresses the important investment that the Gomeran institution has made in the primary sector and within it in the cultivation of fruit.

The chairman of the Island Council, Casimiro Curbelo has announced the initiation of the procedure for registration of the first association of Gomeran stockbreeders. He explains that the insular corporation has promoted and supported the creation of this grouping, which will be founded with the aim of uniting all workers and employers in the sector and protecting the interests of the collective.

The plenary session of the Cabildo de La Gomera approved an insular budget for 2008 that exceeds 52,1 million euros, in addition to 2,4 millions which correspond to the items managed by the Island Water Council. "A total amount of over 54,5 million euros", states the chairman of the Corporation, Casimiro Curbelo, who ensures that the annual budget is eminently social and accentuates the well know solitary character of the island, and will allow to cushion the possible economic recession next year.

The President of the Cabildo de La Gomera, Casimiro Curbelo, says that this fiscal year will be definitive for the island since the Island Council has already marked the lines of action to address and complete all the outstanding works of infrastructure. According to Curbelo the administrative cooperation which has responded to the island's needs is the key to fulfilling the objective outlined by the insular institution.

The forest fire which began on Saturday April 26th 2008 and affected for four days the municipalities of northern La Gomera burnt two Sites of Community Interest (SCI) of great ecological value, according to the president of the Island Council, Casimiro Curbelo, who presented the overall assessment of the damage caused by the fire.