Ibiza : Four experts analyze the different types from contamination and their impact

The different types from contamination and their impact in Ibiza and Formentera will be analyzed this afternoon in a colloquy organized by the Escola d´Adults (Daily Club, 20 hours), within the program of their IX Jornades Culturals. Jorge Meléndez, lawyer in Sciences of the Sea and technician of medio.ambiente of the City council of Formentera will take part; Jaume Estarellas, biologist; Juan Formigós, phamacist, who give classes on contamination in the Algarb institute, and Carlos Bujosa, representative of medio.ambiente of GESA-Generacion in Balears. Brown Daniel, director of the Escola d´Adults of ibiza and formentera will be the moderator of the table.

The sun eclipse, from Ibiza

The fans of Ibiza could enjoy yesterday, although of partial form, the sun eclipse that crossed half of the planet, from Brazil to Mongolia, in little more than three hours. In the Pitiüses the solar surface was left cover in around a 36 percent at the moment of greater concealment. The phenomenon will be repeated in August of 2008.

Ibiza registered 43,660 crimes in 2005, a 3.41% less than in the previous year

The number of crimes committed in Ibiza and the rest of Balears the past year ascended to 43,660, which as opposed the year before represents a reduction of 3.41% 2004, although the small infraction arrived in 2005 at 35,703, number that supposes an increase of 10.22%, according to what informed yesterday the delegate of the Government in the Islands, Ramon Socías. The global calculation of crimes and infraction raised in 2005 in a 2.28 percent in comparison with 2004, indicated to the Socías means, that emphasized that the number of prisoners the past year increased in a 5.14 percent, of which the 53.21 percent were reincidentes.

Ibiza and Formentera get 45 tourist police for this season

The municipalities of Ibiza and Formentera will be able to count, as of April, with the reinforcement of 45 new policemen assigned to the local police in quality of tourist police. This number supposes 13 agents more of this type in comparison with the agents of reinforcement contracted the last year. Sant Antoni is the locality that more police will be able to incorporate, to the be to it granted him the 15 seats that it had asked for. This number supposes the third most numerous contingent of reinforcement that the Balearic goverment has given to a town this year after Palma and Calvià.

Conseller of Interior, Jose Maria Rodriguez, presented yesterday in Palma the distribution of the reinforcements that will be able to contract, as of next month, the city councils of Balears through the figure of the tourist police. In the set of Balears, 274 agents will serve, a number that supposes a third more than the last year, according to sources of conselleria. In the case of Ibiza and Formentera, the increase in 13 seats will almost suppose a 50% more with respect to the last year. The distribution of the seats assigned by the Govern establishes 15 tourist police for Sant Antoni, 10 for Ibiza and Sant Josep, 7 for Santa Eulària, 2 for Formentera and 1 for Sant Joan. The councilman of Interior de Sant Antoni, Joan Pantaleoni, assured yesterday that "I feel satisfied with the allocation, because this number is the one that we was solicited. These are those that have been assigned to us, but still we must incorporate them to the group, reason why at the end there could be end less ". The agents of Sant Antoni will distribute themselves between almost all the units of the Local Police and will mainly patrol the zones of greater presence of tourists: the marine stroll, the stroll of ses Fonts, the West End and ses Variades, "although, of more sporadic form, also will cross all beaches of the municipality as Cala Salada, Cala Gració, Cala Gracioneta and es Pouet", indicated Pantaleoni. Ibiza and Sant Josep will be able to incorporate 10 tourist agents each one. In the case of Vila, the inspecting head, Manuel Ayala, also were satisfied to obtain the number of police demanded, with the incorporation of 5 agents more in quality of temporary. In the case of Vila, "luckily or unfortunately, almost all the urban area is tourist, reason why these tourist agents are not going away to locate in any specific zone although, by matters, yes that will be centered more in the municipal ordinances and the infractions of traffic".

In April Ayala expressed his confidence in that the new policemen can be working as rapidly as possible, something that will not happen before mid April. "next day 5th of April it is necessary to do a small examination to them and until day 10 they do not have the definitive lists, reason why he will not be until days later when we sign the contract with them", he augured. The tourist police count on contracts of, at the most, nine months although with the 31 of December like more habitual date to limit their activity. Although conselleria of Interior informed yesterday that 10 tourist police had also granted themselves to the municipality of Santa Eulària, its councilman of Interior, Juan Carlos Roselló, explained that "this number has occurred by error, because we had asked for seven, one more than the last year, and seven have been granted to us". The edile explained that "she is not going to have no problem to be able to cover those seats since there is interested people" but she clarified that it would have liked "that there were more aspirings, because there are not too many people in the island that want to make the basic short course of local police". Roselló emphasized the "great formation of this type of agents". "usually they leave the course with some formation in languages and knowing some proceedings that can be made abroad". With respect to their zones of intervention, the tourist police will act fundamentally in all beaches, from Aigües Blanques to s´Estanyol and those amassed zones more, like Es Canar, Llonga Cove, Es Figueral or Santa Eulària.