Vranje – As part of the USAID’s Sustainable Local Development Program, a 40,000 US $ grant was approved for preparation of the Regional Solid Waste Management Plan for Serbia’s Pcinj District. The grant will enable preparation of the technical documentation for the expansion of the “Meteris” regional landfill and for the construction of solid waste transfer stations in Bujanovac and Presevo. The EU Progress project is going to provide further 196,000 US$ for the needs of preparing the technical documentation. Upon expansion, Vranje’s “Meteris” landfill will become accessible to the entire region, thus contributing to the regional economic development and job creation.

Bujanovac- On Friday, April 29, 2012, Mary Warlick, the US Ambassador to Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and Vincent Degert, Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, asked in Bujanovac the Albanians from South Serbia to vote in the parliamentary elections and to actively participate in Serbia’s governmental institutions.

Bujanovac – The Bujanovac self-government will boost agricultural growth this year with 10 million dinars. Most of the resources from the agricultural budget are intended for development of livestock, mainly cattle - breeding, which will be supported with five million dinars.

Tanja Knezevic, Director of the Institute of the Public Health of Serbia "Dr. Milan Jovanović-Batut "said that apart from Italy, Germany, Bulgaria and Sweden, Serbia is one of the five countries with the oldest population in Europe.

Belgrade – Assistance for the Kovinic family, which is from the village of Gazdare near Medvedja and which, over the past 28 months, had twin baby girls three times in a row, comes from everywhere.

Bujanovac – On the occasion of visiting the “Jug” army base near Bujanovac, Dragan Sutanovac, Defense Minister, said that the Ministry of Defense and the Army of Serbia didn’t divide the people on the religious, ethnical and other grounds and that all those who wished to become members of the Army of Serbia were welcome.

The “Dokukino” Center for New Communications announces a public invitation to apply for attending a workshop on citizen journalism “Hear, See and Move”, which will be held in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.