9 - 15 JUNE 2011
ISSUE NO. 1353
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Donations found discarded in abandoned warehouse By Nicole Hallett TEENS came across a stash of charitable donations abandoned in a warehouse in Marratxi Industrial Park. The goods were supposedly destined for African Sahrawi refugee camps in 2008/9.
Dozens of boxes lay scattered on the floor as though they had been looted. Hundreds of brand name clothes, bags, shoes, towels, bedding and other items were found scattered around the warehouse floor, reported Spanish daily
Diario de Mallorca. Items with the Social Services logo on them were also found. Sports equipment from the Consell de Mallorca and hospital supplies and equipment from Son Dureta which were donated for humanitarian purposes apparently
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BUCKETS AT THE READY: Participants prepare for the five-kilometre walk.
100s Walk for Life MORE THAN 100 people walked the five-kilometre Walk For Life route last Sunday, which began and ended at the Mallorca Cricket Club grounds. • Turn to Page 4
never reached their destination. Handwritten labels on some of the boxes of medical equipment leave no doubt as to their origin; in addition to a list of contents is the year in which the objects were packed and the initials ‘NGO’. The Association of Friends of the Sahrawi People said that they were not able to deliver all the donated items due to lack of resources. “We give priority to medical equipment and items to develop the medical projects we have been working on for more than 20 years,” said Josep Bibi from the association. Since they cannot afford security guards, vandals entered the warehouse, causing the mess, which has since been tidied up. When asked why the ‘abandoned’ items were not donated to other charities, they replied that they ‘cannot donate dirty material which had been dragged along the ground and that some of the drugs had expired or were unsuitable for the needs of the Third World’.
NEWS EXTRA
Remedial classes FOURTEEN schools in the Balearics - nine in Mallorca - are offering around 1,300 students summer classes in Maths, Spanish and Catalan.
Push over A 24-YEAR-OLD Briton was arrested in Palmanova for allegedly assaulting a taxi driver, who supposedly fell and hurt his shoulder after the detainee pushed him.
Union threats THE UGT union has threatened to reactivate ambulance strikes after discovering that the majority of ABEA employers have allegedly begun to renege on their labour promises.
Tractor tragedy A 92-YEAR-OLD farmer in Felanitx died when the tractor he was driving overturned.
Unruly woman A WOMAN, 30, was arrested for allegedly threatening shop staff in Pollença.