Archive for April, 2009

And the prize for the most ridiculous road works goes to…Yes, you’ve guessed it, last years winners; Almuñécar! They’re really ahead of the pack these guys, it seems the balls up in Velilla just wasn’t enough, now the Town Hall has decided to dig up Avenida de Andalucía, and just in time for the... »

After all the politicians had postured and proclaimed, the Town Hall staff finally made a public comment. A Workers’ committee for the Town Hall personnel gave a warning to the Mayor’s cabinet on the 24th and complained that there was a dearth of information from the cabinet. The committee qualified what had happened as... »

Employees from a building company, who haven’t received any salaries since November, protested outside the Almuñécar branch of the Cajasol. The company owner claims that the savings bank is subjecting him to a financial blockade, which has caused this shortfall. »

At the beginning of last month, the PGOU spent its first anniversary sitting on a desk, somewhere in the offices of the Junta de Andalucía, dead in the water. In that time absolutely nothing has happened to it, except collect dust, because the Junta won’t even begin to look at it until the Almuñécar... »

Leading on from last month’s article about the possible demolition of the Bahía hotel in Taramay, there comes more news. Not only was there a private law suit as mentioned in last month’s Seaside Gazette, but there was also one brought by the Junta de Andalucía and it turns out that it was a... »

The Almuñécar-based Guardia Civil arrested a 36-year-old driver from Cijuela, identified as F.N.H. for resisting arrest, as well as dangerous driving. The arrested man was driving through Almuñécar at high speed at two in the morning about midway through last month. He was stopped by the police in Plaza de Madrid, which is the one... »