ISSUE NO. 1428
15 - 21 NOVEMBER 2012
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Bad bribe A DRIVER has been jailed for a year for offering €265 to a Guardia Civil officer who pulled him over. The man had five grams of cocaine in his possession.
Sharks netted
MALLORCA will today (Thursday) begin to count the cost of yesterday’s General Strike. As this picture of striking workers in one of the main streets of Palma shows, the harsh reality of present Perfect storm chaos - Page 6 life in Spain is at times a sad one!
Dumped upon By Frank Anderson The Balearic parliament has approved the controversial incineration in Mallorca of waste from other European Union states. Parliament passed the legislation after the European Commission approved the incineration of refuse-derived fuel at the Son Reus facility north of Palma. Opposition parties voted against the legislation, which they claimed would make Mallorca ‘the dump-site of Europe’.
But the ruling PP argued that it was ‘a solution and would help avoid raising waste treatment charges’. Outside the parliament building, a small group of environmentalist protestors dressed as tourists and wore gas masks. But the commission ruling argued that incineration with energy recovery has a better environmental impact than other similar practices. The protestors claimed that the Council of Mallorca was importing the Turn to Page 2
TEN members of a gypsy clan were arrested in an investigation into loan sharks. Among them was a man who claimed he acted as a ‘peacemaker’ during riots last year in Palma.
Lifesavers URUGUAYAN journalist Carlos Lopez, who rang from Japan to alert Palma police that a student planned to carry out a massacre at the university, has been honoured by the Spanish Government along with the policeman who took the call.
Ten evicted TEN homes are being repossessed every day in the Balearics. The Association of Consumers in the Balearic Islands has asked councils not to send police officers to enforce repossession orders.