The local rag (Ideal) highlights the ‘Green Light’ being given to develop the former sugar cane fields in La Caleta. The plans include, as regular readers will know, a large marina along with one or more luxury Hotels.
There’s a lot – and I mean a lot – of money potentially involved here. At the moment, there seems to be an immediate half million to be paid to the members of the Board of Compensation. Who, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, my Town-Hall ‘mole,’ when asked if this development would ever come to pass, gave the classic Spanish shrug, raising of the eyebrows and side-to-side motion of the hand, indicating, as best I can translate, something like, not in my lifetime or mañana; whichever comes first.