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The Firefighter mob

Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Las Palmas, June 8th, a firemen corporal from the Las Palmas firefighter consortium, a sergeant exam to pass and two hooded people. Might not tell you a lot, but that were the "ingredients" of a mafia-like incident on Friday. The mentioned corporal was on its way to do his theory exam to promote for a post as a sergeant when he was attacked and beat up by two hooded people. While he was beat up one of them said something like: "that'll teach you not want to do promotion exams". There were 25 firemen that aspirated for the 3 availiable sergeant posts, which became only 5 after the first aptitude test. The corporal was among those 5, something that made him suspect the two hooded to be some of his colleagues and report this incident to the police. Kinda shocked about that. Never thought we would live between such despicable people.

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New low cost flights

Saturday, June 9th, 2007
The Gran Canaria Tourist Board, has come to an agreement with the airline 'Jet2' wich will offer, starting in October this year, low cost flights from the UK to Gran Canaria. Leeds, Manchester, NewCastle and Belfast are the cities chosen for this particular project which will offer one daily low cost flight from each city to Gran Canaria, increasing the actual air traffic between Gran Canaria and the UK in almost 10%. In adition to this the Tourist Board has also made another agreement with 'Nowegian Air' which will offer low cost flights from Oslo to Gran Canaria. This new service is supposed to start in winter this year. How you like that ?!?! Kinda cool i think. That'll give our tourism-based economy a little push. :D

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The after-election day

Monday, May 28th, 2007
Well, for thos of you who are interested, and if you voted yesterday for regional elections you probably are, the results are commonly known but i will summ them up a bit. Though i don't like to talk about politics, this change for Las Palmas is worth to mention. Big knock out for the Partido Popular in our capital since the PSOE won with absolute majority, ending a 3 terms in a row of "popularity". Jeronimo Saavedra (PSOE) is new Las Palmas major, Jose Manuel Soria (Partido Popular) is president of the council again but socialist candidate Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar (PSOE) has 10 days to state a vote of no confidence and make a pact with other parties to gain the presidency. The parliament results are: 26 M.P.'s for PSOE, 17 M.P.'s for CC-PNC, 15 for the PP and 2 for CC-AHI. Telde got took over almost entirely by Nueva ...
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Skulls & Bones

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

There you go again,

big screen time with the (aparently) last part of this amazing adventure 'saga'. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the title of Disney's last top production. Its' official realease date was supposed to be on may 25th but Disney decided finally to release it a day earlier. Therefore, tomorrow is the big date.

Casting returnees are Johnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow), Orlando Bloom (Will Turner), Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann) and Geoffrey Rush (Captain Barbossa) with Chow Yun Fat making his first appearance as singapore pirate Sao Feng.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards makes a star appearance as Jack Sparrows father.

Oh, this makes now clear why he fell from a coconut palm a couple of months ago... :) ...he was practicing his pirate role ;)

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More info

Monday, May 21st, 2007
I got good news for you. One of these days i'll finish uploading all the info on the main page on appartments and homes to rent, hotels, cottages, etc... here on Gran Canaria. When i have everything uploaded i'll post again with all the main links, but i think you'll find it very interesting to have a look at its' content. Stay tuned for the upcoming info.

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