Showing posts with label Budget cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget cuts. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

MALLORCA TODAY - Palma slashes the budget for 2013 San Sebastià fiestas

Palma town hall has announced one of the most dramatic of the cuts to fiesta budgets that have been brought about by the holes in local authorities' finances. The most dramatic of cuts for the most dramatic of the fiestas and the biggest of the fiestas - San Sebastià in January. And one of the most obvious cuts will be to the fireworks display; the town hall says it can't justify spending 100,000 euros.

See more: Diario de Mallorca

Friday, December 30, 2011

MALLORCA TODAY - Sant Antoni budget in Sa Pobla cut

Sa Pobla, the centre for the most spectacular and most popular of Mallorca's Sant Antoni celebrations in January, has cut the spend for the 2012 event. Money is still owed in respect of the last two events and, among measures announced by the town hall, local bars will have to pay for a tent and DJ rather than the town hall.

Friday, October 07, 2011

MALLORCA TODAY - Dijous Bo fair suffers 40% cuts

A further indication as to how deeply austerity measures are cutting comes with the news that Mallorca's most traditional, most famous and biggest autumn fair, the Dijous Bo in Inca in November, will have a budget cut of 40% this year, a cut that will include the dropping of its horse fair among other things.