March 2023

A NEW fund will reinvest cash recovered from money laundering and terrorist financing in Gibraltar back into the law enforcement agencies who tackle it daily. The government of the British territory started the Gibraltar Recovered Assets Fund to collect and manage money taken from economic criminals. The fund will then pay for specialist training and […]

The Guardia Civil is investigating the circumstances of the death of a Czech national near a beach in Maro, a small village in Nerja.  The body was found last Monday 27 in a finca where he lived, located near the road that goes down to the beach. It presented multiple traumas, which has led police

SPAIN’S inflation rate in March clocked in at 3.3% according to preliminary figures from the National Statistics Institute issued on Thursday. That’s down on February’s figure of 6% and is attributed to falls in electricity and fuel prices and the big hikes recorded in March 2022 working their way out of the system. The March

FOREIGN property buyers accounted for 88,858 home purchases in Spain last year- up by 45% on 2021 figures. The College of Registrars says deals struck by non-Spaniards worth at least €500,000 increased by 63.5% compared to the previous year, accounting for 8,975 transactions. The registrars added that the percentage of foreigners entering the Spanish housing

TWO bodies have been retrieved from the Atlantic Coast of southern Spain, marking a dark day for the Bay of Cadiz. A tragic coincidence that has resulted in two deaths, one found in Cadiz’s most popular beach, La Caleta, situated between the castles of San Sebastian and Santa Catalina and the other grim discovery found

THE arrival of the Malaga Metro to the city centre has smashed the all-time record of underground users on its first day. The opening of the Guadalmedina and Atarazanas stations last Monday, March 27, saw some 41,000 people use the underground to travel around the city, even though it was a working day, and became

THE European Union is turning its attention to Gibraltar’s post-Brexit treaty after the Windsor framework sweetened relations with the UK. That is the opinion of Gibraltar’s Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia who visited the European Parliament in Brussels for a series of meetings connected to EU treaty talks. While in the Belgian capital he spoke

HOLY Week in Malaga will begin with stable weather that will last until Easter Tuesday, April 4. From today, Thursday March 30, onwards, the easterly wind which has brought cooler temperatures to the coast over the last few days will change to westerly which will see a rise in the mercury. According to Spain’s Met

POLICE in Gibraltar explained more about how the new airport tunnel will work to commuters and residents ahead of its opening on March 31. The long-delayed tunnel will direct traffic from a roundabout at the end of Devil’s Tower Road down a slipway into the tunnel. Drivers will then appear at the other side driving

A Lebanese multimillionaire has been sentenced to eight months in prison by the Provincial Court of Valencia after attempting to buy a liver.  Hatem Akkouche, former mayor of the Lebanese city of Al Kharayeb, spoke to two nephews living in Novelda, Alicante to search for a compatible liver in 2013. His family members began searching