The Andalusian regional government, La Junta de Andalucía, had harsh words for the American credit-rating agency, which has just reduced by two levels the Junta’s credit rating to junk level.
Tag Archive for Sevilla
Canal Sur Dos Closes
by Martin Myall •
Andalucía’s second, public TV channel will be closed down to cut costs. Its frequencies will, from October onwards, be used to transmit the surviving channel. The only difference will be that the old Canal Sur 2 frequencies will carry subtitles, sign language and audio-description for films.
Mother Sues Judge
by Martin Myall •
A divorced woman is taking a judge to court after he took the custody of her 5-year-old daughter away from her, giving it instead to the father, who has already been sentenced to a 9-month suspended sentence for domestic violence.
Sick to Death of You
by Martin Myall •
The regional ombudsman when addressing the regional parliament did not mince his words when describing how citizens felt about the political class.
The Topical Ticket?
by Martin Myall •
The provincial law court of Sevilla has sentenced two young men to 13 years imprisonment each for burglary and the murder of a priest on the 6th of October, 2010
Woman Shot Dead During Shoot Out
by Martin Myall •
Concepción Barreiro was unlucky enough to be standing at a bus stop in front of a bank in Aznalfarache, Sevilla, when a raid took place. The 54-year-old women was accompanied by her young daughter when she received a bullet in the head, fruit of the cross fire between Policía Local and bank robbers.
El Caso E.R.E.
by Martin Myall •
If there is one thing that is liable to lose the regional elections for the socialists (PSOE) it is the scandal of the ERE. Now this is staggeringly scandalous, even in a country where corruption appears to be an Olympic sport. Read on…
Demolition Disobedience
by Martin Myall •
A provincial law court of Sevilla has sent a couple to prison for not acting on a demolition order over their home. However, as the couple has no criminal record and the prison sentence (6 months) is inferior to the minimum sentence of 24 months that would require incarceration, the couple are pending a further judicial decision.
Expensive Impact
by Martin Myall •
(Malaga) A man with mental problems jumped from a 9th-floor to end his life after escaping from a mental ward… which is unfortunate enough, but he landed on a passerby who had just walked out of a bar, causing quite a lot of bodily mischief, which is not only unfortunate but also arguably clumsy.
Unhealthy Interest in Mother-in-Law
by Martin Myall •
The Guardia Civil have arrested a man who allegedly put a spy-camera, hidden in a pen, in his own mother-in-laws bathroom… Is nothing sacred?
Yes, 34-year-old N.R.T., who comes from El Viso del Alcor (Sevilla) was denounced by his highly unamused m.i.l., after she discovered a ‘suspicious pen’ in her bathroom, realising that she was not aware how long it had been there.