Tag Archive for marina del este

Not Doing Their Job?

Each summer the Almuñécar fleet of cleaning skiffs plies the waters off the town’s beaches, skimming off floating rubbish and questionable discarded objects.

Drug Smuggling Arrests

The Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency’s Customs Surveillance Service arrested six people in a joint operation as alleged perpetrators of smuggling, more precisely, piloting the drug refuelling RIBS.

A Day of Mishaps & Deaths

We can start with the body found floating in La Herradura Bay, but there was also a death in Dúrcal and an accident involving a van and a pedestrian on a crossing in Almuñécar.

Drug-Runner Impunity?

Residents can be forgiven for thinking that the Guardia Civil are doing nothing about the narco-RIBs, bobbing about in La Herradura bay with apparent impunity.

Suspicious Manoeuvres

There has been new building work going on behind the Marina del Este, which has not escaped the notice of the PSOE opposition party, nor many residents.

Body Found by Fisherman

It was around 08.30h this morning that a fisherman came across the body of a man floating off one of Almuñécar’s peñones (rocky outcrops) near the Marina del Este.