The judge investigating the Madrid Barajas Spainair crash has called the two mechanics who worked on the plane before its takeoff for declarations.
During the examination by the judge, both mechanics have admitted that they did not consult the official Boeing manual when they removed the fuse that seems to have deactivated the fatal alarm, instead [...]
In order to help get the job market moving, a new measure from the Government says that:
Unemployed with children now entitle any employer who gives them an indefinate contract (full time) with a €1,500 annual deduction in Social Security payments (for two years).
Unemployed people who register as autónomo (self employed) can, as a once off, [...]
The unemployed, low earning autonomos (self employed) and widows are now eligable to request a mortgage holiday to ease off on payments.
You can request a “holiday” on up to 50% on your monthly payments (added on, interest free, to the end of the mortgage) if:
you took the mortgage out before 1st Sept 2008;
the total mortgage [...]
Gabriel Amat, leader of the Partido Popular (PP) in Almería, used a press conference in the municipality of Fondón to complain about the vast amount of money being spent by PSOE and President-for-life Chaves on advertising, despite their calls for “austerity”.
It seems that in the 2009 budget, despite a lot of trimming and cutting out [...]
Albox town hall, possibly in an attempt to divert attention away from the water fiasco, has announced plans to setup a registry of pets.
They will pay the Vet Guild €743,35 annually in exchange for the guild informing them of all the details of all pets chipped (which must be done by law!) in Albox. This [...]
HORTYFRUTA, the large fruit and veg cooperative that grows and exports a lot of Almerias’ veg, has, after two months of legal wrangling and discussion, got Dutch TV to agree to air an apology for a documentary that said that Almerian tomatoes were “unhealthy” due to their growth conditions and high level of pesticides.
The Dutch [...]
Roquetas del Mar town hall has announced that it will try to overturn a ruling on “Las Salinas”, which is the only undeveloped part of the Roquetas beach front. “Las Salinas” has been declared an area of the Public Domain due to it’s importance for local wildlife; Roquetas town hall will join forces with local [...]
[Read full post]How exciting!
My (our) good friend Justin has just proposed to his argentian girlfriend, Aldana. She has accepted, apparantly in delight, but we’re not ruling out a last minute flight to the airport just yet.
And yes, wise guy, she has permanent residency in Spain already!
So now for ideas for the stag do. I’m voting [...]
The Guardia Civil recently trialled sending round mounted police to patrol the many greenhouses in the area. This seems to have been a great success, inasmuch as it’s cut crime. So successful that the Guardia have announced their intention to resume patrols later this month.
However, they are a bit miffed that on Friday some joker [...]
From what I can gather in the press:
-GALASA was paid €50,000 by Albox town hall to keep the water running for at least another 30 days.
-There is still €800,000 outstanding in back water bills.
-The town hall is expected to fire GESTAGUA and replace them with GALASA as the water suppliers for the area.
-GESTAGUA, which still has [...]
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