Today, Thursday 31st March marks colon cancer awareness day. Inside we have Ibiza and Formentera Contra Cancer’s guide to colon cancer and preventative measures for the over 50’s in the Balearic Islands. See page 13
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Where are the tourists at? Ibiza braces itself for the season. Photo: Gibbs, Figueretes
San Bantonio Banned; Public Drinking. Banned; Late Night Drink. Banned; PRs & Parades. Not ‘Banned’; Street Traders. gibbs@theibizan.com
San Antonio Town Hall have added a raft of further measures designed to help shift the image and reputation of the municipality away from the boozed up Brits, chips and tits that has been to some the ongoing blight and to others the lifeblood, of Ibiza’s second city. Speaking on local radio Aida Alcaraz, San An’s Minister of the Interior, said that the consumption of alcoholic
See Page 2 ... drinks in public places has always been technically forbidden, but that the law had been ignored as it was impossible to implement at a practical level due to the difficulty in ascertaining whether the drinks were “alcoholic or simple refreshments”. Despite therefore being technically an enforcement of existing regulations and not a new ban, Spanish press immediately reported the Minister’s words as a ban on public drinking. Though it was not clear from the discussion held Monday what has or will change to make this difficulty in enforcement easier in future, the Minister did talk of powers that had been historically held only by the Balearic Government now being extended to local police, though this seemed more in relation to the policing of retail drink sales – which were also banned from midnight to 8am under a recent municipal ordinance. San Antonio Ajuntamento, lead by the tripartite coalition of the PSOE, Podemos and PI, have also announced plans to ban what it groups under the heading “dynamic a d v e r t i s i n g ” . This Continued Over
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