A center for the training of forty young persons from the municipalities of Bujanovac and Presevo was opened in Bujanovac last week. The center was opened by the Belgrade-based “Civic Initiatives” organization, as part of the “Youth Build” program. 

Bujanovac – The municipality of Bujanovac began clearing up waste dumps in the surrounding villages.  

In the future, the Water Association of Portugal and the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) will jointly apply for financial resources from the European Union’s funds, while the money will be used for projects implemented in the field of water and water management in Serbia’s municipalities.

According to the results of the Republican Statistics Office of October 15, 2011, 7.4 million people in Serbia were registered in the census. Out of that figure, 1.7 million people in Belgrade and over 1.9 million people in Vojvodina were registered in the census. 

Presevo – As of April 29, 2011, 57 unexploded cluster bombs were displaced from three sites in the municipality of Presevo and, thereupon, destroyed on the spot, said Emil Jeremic,  Regional Director of the “Norwegian Peoples' Aid for South-East Europe”.

Alexander Konuzin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serbia, and Slobodan Kocic, Mayor of Leskovac, marked the beginning of the  construction of a distribution gas network in Leskovac.  

Presevo/Bujanovac – The initial results of the census in South Serbia show that quite  fewer Serbs currently live there, especially in the territory of the municipality of Presevo, than in 2002, when the previous census was conducted.

Predejane – An analysis of the safety situation in thirteen municipalities of the Jablanica and Pcinj districts show that South Serbia’s residents are most apprehensive about drug – addiction and request that the issue should be solved.

Census records were obtained from around six milion citizens in eight days, said Ljiljana Djordjevic, Head of the Census Department at the Republican Statistics Office. According to her, the census has gotten into a routine and it is being conducted without any problems in the entire territory of  Serbia. 

Bujanovac – The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Serbia paid in the account of the municipality of Bujanovac the first installment of 8.5 million dinars, which is for the improvment of  sanitary conditions of a waste dump near the village of Rakovac, said Ljubisa Stosic,  Presidenty of the local community in Rakovac.