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Bring That Music Back Sant Josep indicate a change in their controversial noise regulations in order to protect live music. Live music would again be allowed, but must end at eleven o'clock at night, not midnight as has been the case historically. The strict new regulations would remain in force for DJs.
The mayor of Sant Josep, Josep Marí Ribas, and the second deputy mayor, Ángel Luís Guerrero, have met with the president of the Association of Musicians d'Eivissa, Dani Martínez, to study a modification of the noise ordinance that would again facilitate live music performances in Ibiza’s Southern municipality. Marí Ribas has agreed to propose changes in the regulations, stating "because the problem of Sant Josep is not this type of music, but the excesses that have been committed in certain tourism businesses", a situation that
has led to the tightening of municipal ordinances. The mayor does not specifically state DJs playing electronic dance music, but we’ll stick our neck out and say we all know that is exactly what he is referring to when he refers to “certain tourism businesses”, and within that it is the so called beach-clubs that have caused considerable political upset in San José over the last few years. In the meeting, which was also attended by municipal technicians and the lawyer of the Associació de Músics, a revised wording was considered that would “facilitate the
75% Resident Travel Discount Starts Monday The Ministry of Development has confirmed that the new
higher discount of 75% on flights and sea journeys between the Spanish Peninsula and the Balearic Islands will be published tomorrow in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and will come into force on next Monday, July 16. That day, from 9 in the morning, Balearic residents can buy tickets with the new higher level of discount. As to whether anybody will be able to get Ryanair to accept their NIE number, we have no idea.