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Who Are The Pirates? Editorial, Nick Gibbs
Ibiza’s Pirate Taxi trade made national news this week with Spanish Channel Telecinco running a report of the widespread illegal business. In the television report, which lasted almost a quarter of an hour, their undercover reporter questioned illegal taxi drivers and customers. He obtained testimony of inflated prices and the offer of additional
illicit services—the supply of drugs and prostitution. Despite the concerted efforts of Ibiza’s licenced taxi driver associations and various Government departments, the problem of illegal taxi services has never gone away and in peak season they are known to quite openly ply their trade outside nightclubs and at taxi ranks feeding off the often long queues of passengers.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the issue, it is another in a seemingly never ending stream of negative publicity for the island and that is most unwelcome. But before we accept the report as simple confirmation of an Ibizan problem of which we were already aware, I would like to take the issue back a step or two.
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