September 2022

MINIMUM spend lunches at €250-a-head, €700-a-week hire cars, Michael Gove on the dancefloor. Yikes! Is it any wonder Ibiza’s been a little quieter this summer. Ask any regular visitors or business owners and they’ll tell you the same thing; the White Island is anything but empty, but there’s definitely less visitors than last year. Meanwhile, […]

A museum in San Fernando (Cadiz) to honour late flamenco singer Camaron de la Isla has thrown the artist into the spotlight three decades after his death. Camaron de la Isla is, experts claim, an essential name to know if you are to understand the flamenco music of the second half of the 20th century.

AFTER stumbling through the second half of September, the pound euro (GBP/EUR) exchange rate then collapsed at the end of the month following the UK government’s mini-budget. Over the last two weeks, GBP/EUR slumped from €1.156 to a two-year low of €1.087, before recovering some losses and wavering at around €1.118. What’s been happening? After

TWO Guardia Civil officers were seriously injured while chasing a van loaded with hashish that was trying to escape from Getares beach in Algeciras. Police finally managed to catch the drug traffickers, arresting five people and seizing over 1,400 kilos of cannabis resin. During the chase, the drug smugglers rammed the Guardia Civil vehicle, injuring

MARBELLA’S governing Partido Popular (PP) has called an urgent council meeting to demand the city’s paseo maritimo (promenade) be declared a ‘space of public interest,’ claiming it is under threat from the PSOE led Spanish government. According to Marbella PP spokesman Enrique Rodriguez, the promenade was built ‘irregularly’ in 1972. The part of the paseo

THE UK’s Gambling Commission has fined Gibraltar-based online betting company Betfred £2.87 million for failures of its subsidiary Petfre. According to the Commission, it failed to put into place social responsibility and anti-money laundering checks between October 2019 and December 2020. Petfre had not enough controls over fast spenders, with one person being allowed to

THE OS 35 shipwreck must be fully removed from its location 700m off Catalan Bay by May 30 next year, the Captain of Gibraltar Port has ordered. Captain of the Port John Ghio issued his Wreck Removal Notice to the bulk carrier’s shipowners bearing in mind ‘the protection of the marine environment’. The Notice also

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Ryanair has announced that it will boost by 17% the number of flights scheduled from Malaga this winter. It is expected that more than two million passengers will be getting a Ryanair flight from the city. The low-cost airline has also invested in eight new planes based at Malaga’s airport, three of which are the

FRANCESCO Meloni, father of far right Italian politician and winner of the recent general election Giorgia Meloni, was once jailed for what was at the time the Balearics’ biggest drug seizure. He was arrested on September 25, 1995 after police discovered he was transporting 1,500 kilos of hashish in a yacht. A Palma court sentenced