June 2023

FROM Felipe Gonzalez to Mariano Rajoy, nearly all of Spain’s prime ministers since the return of democracy have had one problem: their lack of English. And the language of Shakespeare, it turns out, is also an issue for the Popular Party hopeful at the upcoming general election, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo.  And that issue is something […]

THE FORMER PRESIDENT of centre-right political party Citizens (Ciudadanos) became the latest casualty of the local and regional elections that were held across Spain on Sunday. Ines Arrimadas gave a tearful farewell to politics on Thursday, after her party suffered the latest in a long line of losses at the polls.  “Politics should only be

A 64-YEAR-OLD man died on Thursday when he was struck by a model airplane in Lliria, Valencia province. The accident happened after 9.00am when the man was walking across the model plane runway run by the Ala RC Club in the Joliesa area of the municipality. He made his fatal move at the precise moment

POLICE in Spain and Poland have brought down an international drug trafficking gang that shipped in large amounts of drugs hidden in lorries transporting potatoes. On 23 April a series of simultaneous raids coordinated by Europol were carried out across both countries. 14 people were arrested in Poland and six arrests were made in Spain

SPAIN welcomed 7.2 million international tourists in April- a record for that month in figures published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics(INE). Tourism Minister, Hector Gomez, described the figures as ‘extraordinary’ and predicted that summer numbers would surpass those of 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic struck. April’s totals were 18.5% more than in

A DEAD sperm whale was discovered washed ashore on Mallorca’s north coast between Estellencs and Banyalbufar on Monday. A person sighted the female specimen and called emergency services who in turn informed the Palma Aquarium and Shark Med organisations. A team went to the site to take measurements, some samples and photos. “It is normally

The current prohibition to smoke in bar and restaurant terraces in Baleares is set to come to an end soon.  The measure took effect during the covid-19 pandemic and has been into force ever since.  However, as the WHO confirmed the end of the global health emergency earlier last month, all covid-related restrictions are to

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A WOMAN is in a special unit of a Basque Country hospital with symptoms compatible with an Ebola infection. She is currently awaiting test results to confirm whether or not she has Ebola. If confirmed, it would be the second case after that of the Galician nurse Teresa Romero, who contracted and overcame the disease