The dogged pursuit of port authority president, Joan Verger, by the newspaper El Mundo continues.
Now they are making noises about the additional moorings that a few years back, appeared on the outside of Marina Port Mallorca in Palma. Under the original concession there were 152 moorings allowed (strictly inside the outer quays) now they have closer to 200.
I can’t remember for which regatta (Conde de Barcelona I think), some years ago that “temporary moorings” were laid but I remember then that I thought that these would be a “Spanish temporary”- i.e. there until someone in authority tells you to bugger off!
Don’t forget Verger was an 8% shareholder in IP3M that controls this marina and the newspaper is trying to infer that Verger is lining the pockets of his former shareholders,in particular, Juan Antonio Riutort and further implying that Verger will benefit in some way too by the old pals act.
The Marbella corruption investigations continue to bring up shenanigans that a Banana Republic would blush at!
Look at this little beauty.
A court in Seville has ordered the Marbella Town Hall to return a stolen car to its rightful owner. The car in question had been removed from the streets of Marbella as having been abandoned and was subsequently used by the then Mayor of Marbella, Marisol Yagüe. It was not discovered until August of this year that the car had been stolen in France.
The 25,514 Euro, BMW X5, four-wheel-drive, found abandoned and stripped of its most valuable parts in the streets of Marbella in 2004, was put up for public auction. As no buyer was found, the Local Police handed the car over to the Mayor. In fact, it was used principally by the mayor´s boyfriend, a member of the same Local Police force.
A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen.
"Careful," he said, "CAREFUL! Put in some more butter!
Oh my GOD! You´re cooking too many at once.
TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW!
We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER?
They´re going to STICK! Careful . CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL!
You NEVER listen to me when you´re cooking! Never!
Turn them!
Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind?
Don´t forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"
The wife stared at him. "What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don´t know how to fry a couple of eggs?"
The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I´m driving."
The high roller game of poker in Puerto Paranoia has just seen the stakes raised quite considerably.
Sr. Fransisco Hernando known as El Pocero (the welldigger), who had been trying to buy the place from our Aryan cousins, had been granted a freeze on the shares of the holding company of the port whilst having to raise his ante from 33 to 40 million!
As we go to press the court has just announced that they rule for the current holders, the Graf family, who own 7000 shares in the port and can continue to run (and sell if they wish) the port as they see fit.
This will leave a whopping big legal bill for El Pocero to pick up plus costs for “damages to the image of the port” not to mention a probable trip to the plastic surgeon to put his nose back into joint!
On the same subject the lease and berth-holders of the port are, to say the least, pissed off with the ripping off of 12 or so years regarding the document that they may have in their possession which states that the concession expires in 2031.
To remind you, a recent ruling has stated that the concession now expires in 2018. Nor are they particularly happy with the fact that they only found out about the possible sale from the press, and not from the concession holders.
They are therefore starting an association of interested parties to look into the curtailment of their leases and possible sale from beneath their feet, to determine what can be done.
If you, or anyone you know, has a vested interest in Puerto Portals please get in touch via Bellapart@mallorcasolicitors.net and as soon as the association has been set up you will be contacted in of course, the strictest confidence.
Paco and Mano were picking spuds in Sa Pobla late in the cool of the evening.
Paco, standing up and arching his back to stretch, said, “Oiga, Mano. Which do you think is further, Palma or the moon?”
Mano replied, “Caramba, idiota, Paco…can you see Palma?”
Dontcha just luv politics?
The looney left wing party, IU-IC was forced to withdraw its Catalan election campaign under the logo ‘Folla’t a la Dreta’ (F**k the right) following complaints by civic groups and rival parties. The party was giving out condoms during the campaign with the aforementioned logo.
Talking about politics, Calvia council never ceases to amuse.
Well, well. It appears that Isidre Canellas, the “piggy in the middle” of Calvia council, has shot himself in the trotter and has shown what he (and being the local leader of his party), UM really stands for: I’m all right Jack (and presumably, ‘Folla’t a la Dreta’)!
Taking advantages of a number of Cheshire cat, photo opportunities to publicize his “star project” which is a 4.5 Km walkway stretching between Peguera and Es Capdella he has fiddled with the route twice since it’s conception; these “adjustments” being for “technical reasons”, he assured all.
However, a recently released report by Calvia’s specialists in “urbanism” disagree and say that on no less than three counts “piggy’s” new route is neither legal nor accurate.
Could it possibly be that his diversions were entirely and selfishly motivated by the fact that “his way” diverts the walkway away from his finca in Es Capdella and onto a neighbour’s land?
No, surely not?
According to a report in the Russian newspaper, Tvoy Den, Roman Abramovich is not a billionaire, in fact, he is almost penniless, so what was expected to be the costliest divorce of all time – with rumours of a £5.5 billion out of court settlement possible – is unlikely to cost him anything.
The paper says that financial experts from Millhouse Capital, the investment fund set up by Abramovich in 2001, have shared out ownership of Abramovich’s yachts, houses, castles, company shares and even Chelsea Football Club among his five children Anna, 13, Arkady, 12, Sonya, 11, Arina, 5 and Ilya, 3. Abramovich controls the children’s finances until they are 18.
Until now, it had been believed that Abramovich personally owned the Pelorus, the Ecstasea and an even bigger, unnamed yacht now building in Germany. There was a question mark over whether he still owned a fourth yacht, as there have been unconfirmed reports that ownership of Le Grand Bleu had been transferred to Eugene Shvidler, Abramovich’s business adviser and the man behind his £140 million purchase of Chelsea Football Club.
Police were called to a Pizza Hut in Magaluf at the weekend after the body of a worker was found covered in mushrooms, onions, ham and cheese.
A Police spokesperson said that the cause of death had not been established but there was a strong possibility that the man had topped himself.
Here’s an interesting little snippet I picked up the other day.
Included in the 100 million Euro plan to completely remodel the port of Palma, the Club de Mar is destined to have an additional 67,000 square metres as a varadero.
And talking about boat yards, what a bloody shambles- piss-ups and breweries come to mind!
It appears now that, despite two years of faffing around delays, the Balearic Port Authority didn’t have their shit together for the intended hand over of Palma’s main boat yard at the end of October, as previously promised.
Whispers behind the travel lift now put the actual transference date definitely (whatever that means in Mallorquin) on the 1st December.
In the meantime, anyone wanting some sort of answers may like to try emailing to:
info@stp-palma.com
As the annual yuletide and new year bashes loom up I leave you with a couple of warning notes that may be of interest to you (but doubt if you’ll take a blind bit of notice).
1/.The consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.
2/.The consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a retard.
3/.The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing.
4/.The consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with members of the opposite sex without spitting.
5/.The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people.
6/.The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.
7/.The consumption of alcohol may cause pregnancy.
8/.The consumption of alcohol may be a major factor in getting your ass kicked.
Toodle pip,
Bates