A change of mayor there has been in Santa Margalida but there is no let-up in the grievances between the town hall and the regional government. The latest issue has to do with the scandal surrounding the death from TB of the Senegalese resident of Can Picafort, Alpha Pam. The government accepts that his death should have been avoided as he wasn't diagnosed with having TB and so therefore treated as an emergency at Inca Hospital, whose director has been sacked. The town hall is to call on the government to compensate Pam's family.
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Showing posts with label Santa Margalida town hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa Margalida town hall. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
MALLORCA TODAY - Santa Margalida warns banks over evictions
Though the announcement may have been overtaken by the national government decision to try and halt evictions, Santa Margalida town hall has warned banks that it will cancel contracts it has with any bank that enforces eviction orders. Local police have been instructed not to assist in evictions.
See more: Ultima Hora
See more: Ultima Hora
Friday, August 24, 2012
MALLORCA TODAY - Appeal against Can Picafort beach management award
The award of the concession to manage Can Picafort beaches this summer is still causing a fuss. It was back in March that the award to Bernart Riutort was made, despite the tender having been lodged seven minutes after the deadline and despite also opposition from town hall technical staff. The company that lost out, Boom Boom Muro, has now raised a further appeal against Santa Margalida town hall's decision, considering that there were irregularities with the award.
See more: Diario de Mallorca
See more: Diario de Mallorca
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
MALLORCA TODAY - Residents complain about the state of Son Real
Residents in Can Picafort have had made public a letter sent to Santa Margalida town hall which complains about the condition of the Son Real finca. The town hall supports the residents as it has been complaining about the poor management of the finca by the regional authorities.
See more: Diario de Mallorca
See more: Diario de Mallorca
Thursday, February 23, 2012
MALLORCA TODAY - Town hall plans to take over necropolis maintenance
Santa Margalida town hall, having grown tired of the inactivity of governmental bodies, has decided to take on restorative maintenance of the necropolis in the Son Real finca itself. A small budget for this has been allocated and the town hall expects that the Council of Mallorca will permit it to undertake the work.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Old King Coal: Alcúdia's power station
In passing yesterday I mentioned that GOB is wishing to have the power station (Es Murterar) in Alcúdia closed. It isn't so much the closure of the station as putting an end to carbon emissions. The power station runs on a mixture of coal and oil.
GOB has a strong case. By any environmental standards, including those of plain, layman common sense, the power station is something of a nonsense. While the environmental arguments have raged for ages regarding the building of a golf course on one side of Albufera, they are as nothing compared with what goes on on another side, i.e. at the power station.
If you drive along the road to Sa Pobla, past Murterar, you will see the grass verges stained with coal dust. To the back of the station are whole "fields" of ash which is used, decreasingly, in the making of cement. Lorries that move the ash and the coal from the port are in regular motion. There is something that is particularly absurd in having these filth-generators shuttling along the roads of Alcúdia every three minutes.
GOB is calling for, and is apparently getting some support from industry, the elimination of the coal and oil firing and for its replacement by renewables, wind farms most notably. It is not the only ecological power that has been attacking the power station and the use of coal. Greenpeace have, in the past, tried to disrupt the shipping of coal to the port.
Whether the wind alternative makes economic sense will doubtless be open to scrutiny as will the feasibility of changing the generating source. What it might all cost and who might pay for it are other questions. But, for once, GOB are likely to be able to call on widespread support, politically, from business and from anyone who believes that the emissions can make little sense, especially given the location of Murterar.
More on ducks
Well, pity a poor old duck in Albufera which finds itself covered in coal dust. It needs to go and have a swim in the clean waters of Can Picafort. The fallout from Sunday's shenanigans continues, "The Bulletin" drawing attention to the fact that Can Picafort council is not taking the actions of the illegal duck tossers lightly. Unfortunately, there is no Can Picafort council. Ho hum. But what of Santa Margalida council?
While it is obliged to set plod off in pursuit of the miscreants, it is open to question quite how determined Santa Margalida town hall is. "The Bulletin" would have it that its actions are "another example of how the local authorities are cracking down on local custom involving animals". Of course they are. The same actions that inspired the sympathetic Power Rangers poster for the 2008 fiestas, that prompted the head of fiestas to declare, after this year's tossing, that "there always have been ducks and always will be" (and he wasn't referring to rubber ducks) and that suggested to the town hall's delegate in Can Picafort that he should be photographed with duck supporters.
The town hall opted for rubber ducks only reluctantly and only after it had been fined for allowing the live ducks to continue to be used. Its attitude now is equivocal. "The Bulletin" devotes little attention to matters Can Picafort or northern, and it's a shame that when it does it can manage to get things wrong and to fail to understand what the situation really is. Poor.
Any comments to andrew@thealcudiaguide.com please.
GOB has a strong case. By any environmental standards, including those of plain, layman common sense, the power station is something of a nonsense. While the environmental arguments have raged for ages regarding the building of a golf course on one side of Albufera, they are as nothing compared with what goes on on another side, i.e. at the power station.
If you drive along the road to Sa Pobla, past Murterar, you will see the grass verges stained with coal dust. To the back of the station are whole "fields" of ash which is used, decreasingly, in the making of cement. Lorries that move the ash and the coal from the port are in regular motion. There is something that is particularly absurd in having these filth-generators shuttling along the roads of Alcúdia every three minutes.
GOB is calling for, and is apparently getting some support from industry, the elimination of the coal and oil firing and for its replacement by renewables, wind farms most notably. It is not the only ecological power that has been attacking the power station and the use of coal. Greenpeace have, in the past, tried to disrupt the shipping of coal to the port.
Whether the wind alternative makes economic sense will doubtless be open to scrutiny as will the feasibility of changing the generating source. What it might all cost and who might pay for it are other questions. But, for once, GOB are likely to be able to call on widespread support, politically, from business and from anyone who believes that the emissions can make little sense, especially given the location of Murterar.
More on ducks
Well, pity a poor old duck in Albufera which finds itself covered in coal dust. It needs to go and have a swim in the clean waters of Can Picafort. The fallout from Sunday's shenanigans continues, "The Bulletin" drawing attention to the fact that Can Picafort council is not taking the actions of the illegal duck tossers lightly. Unfortunately, there is no Can Picafort council. Ho hum. But what of Santa Margalida council?
While it is obliged to set plod off in pursuit of the miscreants, it is open to question quite how determined Santa Margalida town hall is. "The Bulletin" would have it that its actions are "another example of how the local authorities are cracking down on local custom involving animals". Of course they are. The same actions that inspired the sympathetic Power Rangers poster for the 2008 fiestas, that prompted the head of fiestas to declare, after this year's tossing, that "there always have been ducks and always will be" (and he wasn't referring to rubber ducks) and that suggested to the town hall's delegate in Can Picafort that he should be photographed with duck supporters.
The town hall opted for rubber ducks only reluctantly and only after it had been fined for allowing the live ducks to continue to be used. Its attitude now is equivocal. "The Bulletin" devotes little attention to matters Can Picafort or northern, and it's a shame that when it does it can manage to get things wrong and to fail to understand what the situation really is. Poor.
Any comments to andrew@thealcudiaguide.com please.
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