Spanish Salt – Salinera in Ibiza

by admin on December 18, 2011

Spanish salt has already passed the barrier of 50,000 tons of salt, a production not seen since 2005. The tasks of collecting this season ended two weeks ago, with a harvest of 53,000 tons, 29.2% from the previous year (41,000 tons). The end result has exceeded the projections made by the company in early October, [...]

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Businesses to remain open all year round in Ibiza?

by admin on November 30, 2011

The Town Hall has put in motion a package of incentives to encourage businesses to remain open all year round in order to help extend the ‘season’ away from the six month summer season. For 2012 they will reduce the rate of tax on rubbish collection by 30 percent. They will reduce by half the [...]

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Property Tax Santa Eulalia

November 2, 2011

There was some good news for residents living in Santa Eulalia last week after the Town Hall confirmed it would be dropping the base rate which is used to calculate municipal property tax. The Councillor for the Treasury, Pedro Juan Marí, confirmed after the vote that it had been agreed to lower the rate from [...]

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Earning Stats in Balearics

July 27, 2011

‘Mileurista’ is a word which denotes people who earn roughly €1,000 a month, and until recently it was the youngsters who used it to mean that they had to survive on little money. However times are a changing and nowadays it can be applied to more than 67,000 families in the Balearics whose monthly income [...]

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CAM Savings Bank

July 27, 2011

The Bank of Spain took control of the CAM Savings Bank after the market closed last Friday, paving the way for possible nationalization; the process having been applied for by the Bank’s directors. The ‘FROB’ Reconstruction Fund was expected to fire the administrators and appoint new managers; it will cease to be a savings bank [...]

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Ryanair dont sell flights at Ibiza airport

May 5, 2011

The Irish airline Ryanair has announced that because of not doing correctly 50% discount by phone or from the airport of Ibiza, has decided to stop selling Ibiza flights at the airport by phone, so that there is no failures to apply the discount to residents of the islands that fly with the company. Not [...]

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Holidaymakers who arrived in Ibiza and Formentera 2010

April 27, 2011

According to recently published figures, 23 per cent of all holidaymakers who arrived in Ibiza and Formentera during the second half of 2010 did so using low-cost airlines and booking their accommodation independently, the highest percentage in the Balearics. In Mallorca the figure was 19.9 per cent, whilst in Menorca it reached 14.9 per cent. [...]

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Employment in the Balearics

April 13, 2011

Last week representatives of ten of the largest hotel chains in the Balearics signed a contract with ‘SOIB’, the autonomic region’s employment agency, which will see them contracting from the lists of unemployed. The hotel chains will supply information to the Agency as to the amount of workers they need and their qualifications, and in [...]

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Unemployment in Spain

April 13, 2011

Figures published last week show the number of people out of work across the country increased once again in March, with a rise of 0.8 per cent over the previous month, bringing the total up to 4.3 million, the highest figure since statistics began in 1996. In bare figures, more than 20 per cent of [...]

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Fiesta, San Antonio

January 19, 2011

The fiestas to honour the Patron Saint of San Antonio continue this week; today, Wednesday the 19th, all the attractions for the youngsters of the village will be at the special price of one euro. On Friday at 5:00 p.m. there are various events directed at very young children and the not-so-young who would love [...]

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