Day: March 25, 2013

HOW many people work for Mojacar townhall?

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HOW MANY? You have to be kidding me…. I just came across the 2013 budget for Mojacar (total income €11.266.547,08, total expenditure €11.266.547,08, which is nice and neat). It has the list of positions the townhall has… 135 funcionarios (these are the people who can’t be fired), of which 13 are part time. Plus a further 132 assorted jobs elsewhere throughout the village. That means, that a village with just 8.173 people in the 2012 Continue reading HOW many people work for Mojacar townhall?→

Why is nobody contesting the Mojacar music ban? You still have time!

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I was interested to note the fuss over the Mojacar noise ban this weekend on facebook (see Lenox Napier and others, mainly on Facebook). So I tried to find a copy of the new “law”, the Ordenanza Municipal Reguladora de Determinadas Actividades de Ocio en el Término Municipal de Mojácar. And I couldn’t. Because, as I understand it, so far, it hasn’t passed into law. Instead, on the 8th of March, the Mojacar townhall voted Continue reading Why is nobody contesting the Mojacar music ban? You still have time!→

Smoking law for bars may be repealed to keep EuroVegas happy

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The Government has admitted that it is considering repealing or altering parts of the smoking law to permit smoking in some public bars. The comments came via the Delegate of the Government in Madrid, one Cristina Cifuentes, who admitted that the idea was being tabled in order to facilitate the construction of “Eurovegas” in Madrid. “Obviously we cannot alter the law for just one person or complex” she said during a radio interview on RNE1 Continue reading Smoking law for bars may be repealed to keep EuroVegas happy→