December 19th
, 2011
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Bread and circuses. The city government has set up a 4,000 sq. ft. skating ring right outside City Hall, big enough for 120 skaters. The rink will be open to the public until January 11, from 3 to 10 pm. Cabo San Lucas had a smaller one for two years, inside the Sendero shopping mall, on the fourlane to Todos Santos, just next to the Soriana store, but that one’s gone now. It was a temporary promotional deal to bring in families when the mall first opened. The ice rink trend began in Mexico City, where
Loreto. The regional airline an- nounced the suspensión of its flights from Tijuana to Loreto to Cabo San Lucas due to lack of business. The an- nouncement was made by Loreto’s director of tourism, Luz VIngochea, who added that AeroCalafia may – key word here – reinstate its flights later on. Well, hell, they only gave it a few months and they didn’t advertise it.
AeroCalafia dumps
the government set up a 24,000 sq. ft. rink on the city’s main square, or zocalo, five years ago.
the state’s marina management agency, has announced that it will deploy X-ray scanners and metal detectors at every port of entry in the state by this Janu- ary.
The equipment will be ca- pable of detecting weapons and illegal substances and it is the government’s latest effort to reduce drug trafficking. It will be manned by Navy and Army personnel.
loose. At a meeting held last week with the local scientific community, state and city offi- cials, as well as Mexico’s min- istry of the environment (Semarnat), ideas for several programs that would allow our state to generate our own elec- tricity were kicked around. The ball is on our turf, should we volunteer to go off grid? Catching up. It is no se-
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www.settlement-co.com Feds want to cut us More big brother. API,
cret that our attorney general’s office is swamped with work, behind in investigations, and resolutions, besides having been rampant with corruption. But it seems that Gamill Arreola, the Attorney General who was appointed to the job by incoming governor Marcos Covarrubias in April this year, is pushing the fast forward but- ton.
in office, Arreola’s office as well as the Attorney General’s offices in the Southern and Northern ends of the state, have processed a total of 10,186 cases, half of which
During his first eight months
were pending attention when he took over. All the corrup- tion jammed up the system. You should no longer have to pay the District Attorney off to help you with your case. If you are solicited for money, please call the GG and report it. 624 14 30865. And please bear with them a little longer as they clear all of those back cases. Fight over money. The state congress is debating whether to assign all of the 3 percent lodging tax to tourism, instead of keeping 1 percent for building infrastructure. Los Cabos Mayor Tony Agundez is insisting that al- though we want more tourists, the lack of proper infrastruc- ture will create a bad image on those visiting us, so that should be our priority.
Lawmaker Alberto Treviño,
who is also a former secretary of tourism for our state, says that “the state’s entrepreneurs are asking for 100% of the funds to go to promotion,” adding that “It should not be a decision of congress, this is a demand originating in our busi- ness organizations and we must listen to them.” Stay tuned.
Cops get new wheels. Governor Marcos Covarrubias delivered seven new police pick up trucks, a van and a sedan to be used in the streets of La Paz. The keys were symbolically given by Governor Covarrubias to La
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Paz Mayor Esthela Ponce. Just a few weeks back, Mayor Ponce acquired sev- eral pick up trucks on the mainland for the use of La Paz cops. Now if we can just get the cops to stop harassing the Gringos for pay offs..... Condom vending ma- chines. Last week the state
congress approved the instal- lation of condom vending ma- chines throughout the state. They will be popping up in bars, restaurants, hotels, girly clubs, jails and meeting spaces like theaters and movie the- aters.
continued on page 12 8 The new legislation also in-
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