One of the tollbooth operators on the Vera - Cartagena toll road has been arrested by the Vera Guardia Civil for stealing some €30,000 in tolls.
Ginesa C.R., from Cuevas and working at the Vera end of the road, was arrested after a covert operation by the toll road owner discovered he was pocketing the (somewhat [...]
D. Antonio Lopez, President (CEO) of KeyMare, the large building group that built such huge urbanizaciones in Vera and Murcia such as Al Andalus, Pueblo Salinas, Hacienda or Salinas de Vera, quit with immediate effect last night citing “personal reasons”.
He called a meeting in the Vera-Hotel (of which KeyMare owns 51%), which was obligatory and [...]
White Coast Investments, a Dublin based investment house, has been steadily buying up land in Vera since summer 07 and now have some 50,000m2 of land behind the Vera cementary where they are planning to build a large shopping mall with shops, multiscreen cinemas, restaurants, entertainments and the like.
The project has the blessing of the [...]
Meson Geres is in Vera, and a place I first discovered while having a quick coffee with the subdirector of Banco Andalucia. It’s hidden in between the banks and the notaries, and as such, is clean, quick and tasty.
They do a “quick” menu del dia, in which you sit down, the waiter comes out, rattles [...]
The Constitutional Court of Spain has rejected Len & Helen Priors case that they are entitled to economic compensation for the demolition of their home by the Junta last January.
The Court upheld the ruling of Court Nº 2 in Almería, that their house was illegal and had been built without obtaining the necessary permits from [...]
As a sign of protest against the suspension of two local police in Vera by the Mayor (he claims they were in dereliction of duty, the local police say that they were an example used to frighten the rest of them into signing a new work contract) the entire local police force of Vera have [...]
[Read full post]A concerned neighbour discovered an injured puffin (Fratercula arctica) on a beach in Vera.
Seprona (enviromental police) has taken care of it, and say that despite its injured eye and wing it is expected to make a full recovery.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[Read full post]According to teleprensa.net Luis Caparros, the swine who knocked down the Priors house, built large scale electric pylons everywhere, gas pipes, approved the POTALA and generally ruined the area (and, by the way, got a promotion for it - he’s now the head of Housing and Territorial Organisation of Almeria) has promised, under intense media [...]
[Read full post]Vera town hall is crowing about how their new water service is the first in the Levante to obtain a “potable” classification by Sanidad. Meaning you can now safely drink the tap water in Vera. Nowhere else of course, as Galasa continues to pump out it’s mineral laden brownish sludge.
Congratulations. Let’s see if this makes [...]
Throughout history, societies have attempted to install awe and fear into their common citizens by creating imposing edifices within which to dispense justice.
This theory appears to have fallen by the wayside with the new courts in Vera.
vera courts vera almeria justice centre center
Even the government seems unable to muster much enthusiasm about the building, the [...]
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