Graft, corruption found in Morocco public sector

Sign in About Us Last Update 22:57 Friday, 30 March 2012 Cairo 21-13 Home Egypt World Business Economy Opinion Arts & Culture Folk Sports Life & Style Heritage Books Multimedia Graft, corruption found in Morocco public sector Moroccan supreme court reveals that the country's bourse watchdog had not properly investigated cases of insider trading involving five individuals that netted them gains of close to $30 million Reuters, Friday 30 Mar 2012 Print Send Thousand rallied in Morocco in 2011 demanding reforms (Photo: Reuters) An audit court has found evidence of graft, corruption and insider trading in Morocco's state-owned firms and entities, putting to the test a government promise to end such practices. The Supreme Court of Audit's latest probe revealed that bourse...

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Outspoken Morocco rapper charged over insulting song

 Moroccan rapper was charged on Friday with insulting public authorities in a song that was posted on YouTube, at the start of a trial criticised by his supporters as a new attempt to muzzle an outspoken critic of the monarchy. The court, in Casablanca, adjourned the trial of Mouad Belrhouat, known as El-Haqed or "The Sullen One", to April 4 and refused him bail, his lawyer Hatim Bekkar sa...

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THE shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar is to be examined as part of a major review commissioned by Prime Minister David Cameron.

  Gibraltar QC Sir Desmond de Silva is heading the case, which will focus on the assassination of high-profile Belfast lawyer Patrick Finucane in 1989. Finucane successfully represented a number of IRA members, including hunger striker Pat McGeown, and his murder stirred controversy amid allegations of state collusion. The deaths in Gibraltar are being considered as part of the review because one of the dead, Mairead Farrell, was engaged to Finucane’s brother Seamus. The bomb plot – which could have killed up to 100 people – was foiled after Farrell was shot dead along with fellow suspects Danny McCann and Sean Savage on the Rock in March 1988. The review is expected to be completed by the end of the year, while a judicial review over the government’s refusal to hold a public inquiry...

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Spanish fishermen are on the warpath - and threaten with sending 50 fishing boats to Gibraltar.

  With such a menacing statement they have broken the silence that has reigned since the meeting that took place in Gibraltar with the Algeciras mayor Jose Ignacio Landaluce. At that meeting it was agreed with Mr Landaluce that representatives of the fishermen potentially affected would meet with technical officers of the Ministry of the Environment in order for them to understand what exactly Gibraltar law provides for and prohibits. It was also agreed to put the fishermen’s representatives in touch with the Commissioner of Police so that they can understand the independent nature of law enforcement in Gibraltar. However, days have gone by without any news of the fishermen having taken the offer made by chief minister Fabian Picardo. If prior to the meeting the fishermen had...

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Iberia Express takes off on Sunday

 The new low-cost airline, Iberia Express, takes off on Sunday with launch prices from 25 €. The airline, which has been the focus of protests, twelve so far, from SEPLA pilots in the main airline, will start with four routes from Madrid – to Palma de Mallorca, Alicante, Málaga and Sevilla. The inaugural flight will be between Madrid and Alicante. There will also be 45 € flights to the Canary Islands which start in June and 59 € flights to European destinations which will start between June and September. The there will be 17 routes. Iberia Express will operate four Airbus A320, a number which will progressively increase to reach 13 craft by the end of the year. The CEO, Luis Gallego, has promised the same quality of service as Iberia. Tickets go on sale next week on www.iberiae...

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Cheap drugs abroad could pay for break

HOLIDAYMAKERS can pay for the cost of a break in the sun by buying their prescription drugs while abroad. Legally they can purchase their prescribed drugs -- at a fraction of the cost here over the counter -- in Malaga, Marbella , Faro or Lisbon. Those on long term medication and covered by the Drug Payment Scheme, who cough up €132 a month, can particularly benefit. For example, a patient on holiday in Marbella recently bought the three main elements of her prescription. Prescribed for the treatment of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and to reduce risk of cardiovascular problems they cost her almost four times as much in Dublin as in Spain. The products -- Lipitor, Cozaar Comp and Tritace -- in their generic form came to €108.13 in Dublin for a month's supply. In Marbella the same...

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Visit by Israeli delegate stirs anger in Morocco, embarrasses ruling Islamists

 The presence of an Israeli lawmaker among a delegation of the Union for the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly gathered in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Saturday was met with anger from political and civil society groups in the North African kingdom. Several Moroccan groups organized a protest against the visit by the Israeli lawmaker, whose name was not immediately revealed, in front of the parliament in Rabat prior to the opening of the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly meeting. Khaled Sofiani, of the National Action Group to Support Iraq and Palestine, condemned the Israeli lawmaker’s visit to Morocco and urged the government to “immediately expel” him. The visit has caused embarrassment to the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (PJD) that leads a coalition government....

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NET EFFECT The Algeciras Mayor Jose Ignacio Landaluce, and Chief Minister Fabian Picardo as the former is greeted at No 6 on their first ever contact in person.

 Algeciras Mayor Jose Ignacio Landaluce, not usually one short for words, barged past the GBC and Chronicle press net yesterday as he drove out of the No6 Convent Place car park following a 90 minute meeting with the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo on the Spanish fishing question. Technical meetings are now expected to be held to explain the legal position to the fishermen themselves. “Enforcement of Gibraltar laws is a purely independent matter for the Royal Gibraltar Police,” said Mr Picardo after the meeting at which he had explained to Sr Landaluce that the law that affects fishing methods has been in place since 1991. Mr Picardo stated that the position is clear. “Nobody can come here to fish, Gibraltarian, French, Spaniard, German or otherwise in breach of our laws.”  ...

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Spanish fishing vessels expelled from Gibraltar

A British Royal Navy patrol expelled fishermen from Algeciras and La Línea de la Concepción fishing in waters around the Rock of Gibraltar. The measure is due to the fact that the Gibraltar administration unilaterally changed its terms. The conflict began five days ago, when the Gibraltar Police forced Spanish ships to abandon the waters around the Rock up to an area exceeding three miles. It is a disputed area because Spain does not recognize that these waters belong to Gibraltar. In this sense, the mayor of Algeciras and PP deputy, José Ignacio Landaluce, who is mediating in the conflict, said that "the only water areas recognized for the Rock or for the United Kingdom are those assigned by the Treaty of Utrecht, that is, those in the port," Europa Press reported. Landaluce regretted...

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Serbian mafia 'put gangster in mincer and ate him for lunch'

Gang that assassinated Serbian prime minister admits making 'face mask' out of member's skinA GANGSTER who helped orchestrate the Serbian prime minister's assassination in 2003 was allegedly made into a stew and eaten by his associates after falling out with his gang leader. Police believe Milan Jurisic (above) was beaten to death with a hammer, skinned and boned with a sharp knife and then put through a meat grinder at a flat in Madrid in 2009. The Zemun clan, a notorious faction of the Serbian mafia that once had connections with the Serbian government, police and media, allegedly made a face mask from Jurisic's skin before turning...

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Spain moves toward freedom of information law

Freedom of information in Spain came one step nearer Friday after the recently-elected government agreed to introduce a bill in response to widespread disgust over corruption and mismanagement by elected officials of both main political parties. The country's Cabinet agreed to put forward legislation that will allow Spaniards to find out more about how their money is spent by government. Spain, which is struggling to get its public finances under control, is one of Europe's few countries without wide-ranging freedom of information legislation. "It is a law whose main goal is improve the credibility of and trust in our institutions, especially government ones," Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said. The legislation will take months to come into effect, after an unprecedented...

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Spain's Iberia starts low-cost airline

Spanish carrier Iberia on Friday launched a new low-cost airline, Iberia Express, which aims to claim a stake in the highly competitive no-frills sector of the European market. The new airline is part of a plan by parent company International Consolidated Airlines Group to increase profitability after the merger of its component parts, British Airways and Iberia. Iberia Express will initially cover Vigo, Santiago and Granada on Spain's mainland and its island destinations of Minorca, Ibiza, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Palma. It will expand internationally to Ireland, Italy, Greece, Latvia and Netherlands, chief executive Luis Gallego said at a news conference. "The containment of costs will allow Iberia Express to grow and compete with the low-cost operators," said Gallego, adding that...

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We deal with hundreds of people who have been defrauded but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone I speak to knows someone who is a victim

“We deal with hundreds of people who have been defrauded but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone I speak to knows someone who is a victim.” We are discussing the problem of unregulated independent financial advisors (IFAs) and how they prey on unsuspecting expats living in Spain. There are sadly far too many of them and Parsons knows from bitter experience what it feels like to be conned by a rogue advisor, having been mis-sold a financial investment product over a decade ago. His response was to set up the Estepona-based action group along with fellow victim David Klein in a bid to prevent other expats suffering the same fate. “I sat here one afternoon and said this is so dreadfully wrong and decided I had to act,” he explains to the Olive Press. The group offers advice to those...

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Elaine Paige will perform in Gibraltar next month.

  Award-winning musicals theatre star, multi-platinum recording artist, and broadcaster – the ‘First Lady’ of British Musical theatre will be the guest performer in this year’s 50th anniversary edition of the Miss Gibraltar pageant. Ms Paige says she is thrilled to be performing in the show which will be held in St Michael’s Cave on Saturday April 14.   Speaking from London, she said: “It’s such an exciting event and the venue looks absolutely beautiful, I can’t wait to see it! And, as I’ve never sung in a cave before, this is another first for me!” She has just finished a hugely successful run on Broadway as Carlotta in Stephen Sondheim’s musical ‘Follies’ which was followed by two sold-out concerts in New York. Her musical career spans more than four decades. James Neish,...

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Former Gibraltar teacher admits sex charges

 A FORMER teacher has pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual abuse. Graham Hawkins admitted to the indecent assault charges, which relate to the abuse of a girl who was under 16 at the time of the offences, between 1983 and 1984. Hawkins, who now lives in Derbyshire, was appearing before Bristol Crown Court and will be sentenced next month. The 57-year-old worked as a teacher in Gibraltar for decades before moving back to the UK, although it is unclear at which school he was employ...

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The Gibraltar Federation of Sea Anglers has followed closely the incident that took place on Sunday last

The Gibraltar Federation of Sea Anglers has followed closely the incident that took place on Sunday last, during the bank holiday week-end. It applauds the action taken by Kaelan Joyce who had the foresight to call the Police when he spotted a commercial Spanish fishing vessel laying nets off the South Mole. This is illegal under the Nature Protection Act 1991, even though the relevant provisions of this Act were suspended by the informal Algeciras Fishing Agreement 1999. When the Police attended there was some confusion as to the exact interpretation of the applicable laws. Although the Police initially told him that the Spaniards could not fish with nets in Gibraltar waters this was contradicted when the officers attending the scene sought clarification from their command structure. The...

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Gibraltar’s 1st International Jazz Festival

 The main performer will be Avishai Cohen “Seven Seas”, bassist, vocalist andrecording artist of international acclaim.   The Ministry of Culture in conjunction with the Gibraltar Jazz Society will be staging  the 1st International Jazz Festival in Gibraltar. The Jazz Festival will take place at Casemates Square on the 28th, 29th and 30thJune 2012. All the performances will be free of charge. The main performer will be Avishai Cohen “Seven Seas”, bassist, vocalist andrecording artist of international acclaim. The festival will also see other major artists such as Dan Moretti, the University of London Big Band, Elie Massias, Kirsty Almeida and her band, the Juan Gallardo Quintet, Arturo Serra and not forgetting our own local talent, the George Posso trio and...

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Morocco protest against rape-marriage law

 Several hundred women's rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco's parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence. Morocco's penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor as a way of avoiding prosecution. A 16-year-old girl, Amina Filali, killed herself a week ago after being severely beaten during a forced marriage to her rapist. The protesters held signs saying, "The law has killed Amina". The parents of Amina Filali were at the protest, says the BBC's Nora Fakim, in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. They say their daughter was pressured by a local court into marrying her rapist, who then abused her. She died after swallowing rat poison on 10 March. 'Special circumstances' Her case has shocked many in Morocco. Women's rights groups have started...

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Gibraltar has been used to hide critical evidence in this case

A federal judge was considering Friday whether to force Florida deep-sea explorers to hand over to Spain the last of the treasure they recovered from a 200-year-old shipwreck. Last month, Spanish military planes flew home with nearly 600,000 silver coins and other artifacts after prevailing in a five-year legal battle over ownership with Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration. Now, Spain wants the rest of it -- specifically some artifacts that Odyssey left behind in Gibraltar when it flew the coins to the United States in May 2007. The artifacts include at least 100 silver coins, personal effects of sailors and ship equipment, said James Goold, a Washington attorney who represents the Spanish government. In a federal court filing, Spain has asked that Odyssey be forced to hand over the remainder...

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Spain asks federal judge to force compliance by Fla. deep-sea explorers in treasure dispute

The Spanish government is asking a judge to force Florida deep-sea explorers to hand over the last of the treasure they recovered from a 200-year-old shipwreck. Last month, Spanish military planes flew home with nearly 600,000 silver coins and other artifacts after prevailing in a five-year legal battle over ownership with Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration. Now Spain wants the rest of it — specifically some artifacts Odyssey left behind in Gibraltar when it flew the coins to the United States in May 2007. 0 Comments Weigh InCorrections? Personal Post In a federal court filing, Spain has asked that Odyssey be forced to hand over the remainder of the booty from the frigate Nuestra Senora de Las Mercedes, which was sunk by British warships in 1804. A hearing is scheduled for Friday...

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Card firm in breast implant refund

 A Midlands woman who was given PIP breast implants that ruptured has recouped the full cost of the surgery from her credit card company. She said Lloyds TSB refunded her £3,700 on the grounds that she was sold faulty goods. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) said the move should offer a "ray of hope" to other patients with PIP implants. The woman, a hairdresser in her 40s from the Midlands who does not want to be identified, underwent a breast enlargement operation in 2008. She discovered she had been given PIP implants last September when she found a lump and went to a breast cancer clinic. "I was quite worried, but I was told it was just a rupture of my implants. It was only later I realised there was a health risk. I was really quite poorly with it,"...

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Families in Spain face eviction over stranger loans

 Fighting eviction for failing to pay the mortgage on his home in Spain's capital, Nelson Castillo is now grappling not only with his own debts but also those of a family he does not know. The 39-year-old and his wife acted as guarantors of another Ecuadoran family's loan under a programme run by an agency that negotiated loans for immigrants. In return, that family acted as the guarantor for Castillo's loan. Now, both families are in arrears. And each of them is legally responsible for its own loan and for the loan it guaranteed. "We were two families and we did not know each other. Ecuadorans are like that. We had to sign the papers and that's it. Goodbye, and each side went its own way," said Castillo. Dozens of anti-eviction activists had gathered outside his Madrid apartment building...

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Troubled Spain, Portugal now desperate for rain

 Fernando Luna, a burly Spanish farmer, yanks a barley sprout from a field as dry as powder. He examines its roots, which are mostly dead, then tosses the stunted shoot away in disgust. "Worthless! This is worthless!" Luna shouts. Spain is facing its driest winter in more than 70 years and bailed-out Portugal next door is in similar straits. Thousands of jobs and many millions in agricultural output are in jeopardy. Both nations are desperately short of so much: tax revenues, bank credit, jobs, hope for the future. Now, it won't even rain. The landscape in northern Spain is now a palette in shades of ugly. Pale brown fields without crops or pasture stretch off into the distance. A pond for watering sheep has shriveled into a dustbowl. An irrigation canal down the road holds only stagnant...

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Spanish House Prices Tumble

 Spanish house prices tumbled at their fastest pace on record in the fourth quarter, a sign that a long-running property bust will continue to weigh on Spanish households and banks. House prices fall over 11.2% in the fourth-quarter of 2011-the fastest contraction on record. WSJ's Sara Schaefer Munoz has been looking at the data and analyzes how this affects its efforts to deal with its debt crisis. House prices fell on average by 11.2% in the fourth quarter from the same period a year earlier, well below the 7.4% decline in the third quarter, while prices of used homes was down 13.7% in the period, the country's statistics agency INE said Thursday. Both readings are by far the worst since INE started recording countrywide prices in 2007, the peak year for Spain's decade-long property...

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Escaped prisoner Anthony Downes arrested and held in Amsterdam

 Anthony Downes, who was arrested in Amsterdam, escaped from a prison van while being transported from HMP Manchester to Liverpool Crown Court in July last year. He had been facing trial for conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to cause damage with intent to endanger life. He was convicted in his absence at Woolwich Crown Court and is due to be sentenced at the end of this week. Downes, 26, featured as part of Crimestoppers’ latest Operation Captura Campaign in October 2011, which seeks to locate wanted fugitives believed to have fled to Spain, who are wanted by UK law enforcement agencies. Lord Ashcroft, KCMG, Founder and Chair of Crimestoppers, said: “This is yet another example of how criminals on the run will eventually be caught and I am delighted...

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Expats in Spain warned of faulty hip replacements

Therapist Carol Duquemin, 59, decided to act after being forced to have her hip replacement removed after just four months. Duquemin – whose ordeal came after the manufacturer recalled the faulty product in 2010 – has teamed up with free health care service Medilink to provide advice and support to expats. “Up to 9,000 people in Spain could have been affected by the implants,” Duquemin said. “People are still not aware of the problem and the danger it poses to their health. “The law says you have to have it removed in the country where you had the operation but some hospitals here are not giving the help and information that they should, and it is a big operation that causes a huge trauma to the bo...

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Dutch activist arrested in Morocco

 A young Dutch-Moroccan activist was arrested in Morocco on Monday. The Dutch Foreign Ministry has confirmed the detention of Yuba Zalen to Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Mr Zalen is a member of the 20th of February movement, a young protest group inspired by the Arab Spring and calling for greater democracy in Morocco. He was in Morocco to report on the unrest in the northern town of Ait Bouayach, where dozens have been injured in clashes with security forces. Moroccan media are barely reporting on the unrest. Activists say that local internet cafés have also been closed down. The website Amazightimes.com reports that Yuba Zalen is likely to appear in court in the town of Al-Hoceima on Thursday. The Dutch section of the 20th of February movement has called for his immediate relea...

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Revolt in the city of Bni Bouayach in the mountainous area of the Northern Rif in Morocco

The city of Bni Bouayach in the mountainous area of the Northern Rif in Morocco has been sealed off since Wednesday, March 8. All the repressive organs of the state, the army, the gendarmerie together with the secret and public police, have joined forces to blockade the small city. The inhabitants live in fear of police terror and the raiding of houses and arrests. Other repressive forces are hunting down activists who fled into the neighbouring mountains to escape arrest. The media black-out is total. This violent intervention is the dictatorship’s response to peaceful demonstrations organised by the young unemployed and the activists of the 20F movement that have been ongoing for many months. The protest is against the generalised lack of jobs and bad social and economic conditions in this...

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Moroccan appeal court confirmed a death sentence

A Moroccan appeal court confirmed a death sentence Friday against the mastermind of the April 2011 Marrakesh bombing that killed 17 people, and handed a death sentence to one of the others convicted.The chief judge of the court confirmed the death sentence against Adil Al-Atmani, the mastermind of the bombings, in which 17 people -- Moroccans, French and Swiss nationals -- were killed and dozens more wounded.And it converted the life term handed down to his chief accomplice Hakim Dah to a death sentence.But the death sentences are unlikely to be carried, with capital punishment in the process of being taken off the statutes.The court also increased...

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Protests Spread in Morocco's North Rif Mountains

Anti-government protests in Morocco's impoverished northern Rif mountains are spreading after a second village clashed with police resulting in serious injuries and 10 arrests, reported the state news agency. For the past 10 days, there have been demonstrations in the small village of Beni Bouayache following the arrest of a local activist. On Sunday they spread to the nearby town of Imzouren. The state news agency said a number of police were injured when they stopped a protest march at Imzouren headed for Beni Bouayache. The report said some injuries were grievous without further details. Chakib al-Khayari, an activist with the Rif Association for Human Rights, said 20 policemen had been injured in Sunday's clashes, but he didn't have figures for the locals wounded. "We don't know the...

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US soldier has killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children,

A US soldier has killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, after entering their homes in Kandahar. Sky sources said the Afghan victims also included women and elderly men. Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid, who is investigating the incident, said the soldier entered three homes, killing 11 people in the first one. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) coalition confirmed the incident but did not release the number of killed or injured. Sky defence reporter Mark Stone said: "Details are still sketchy and various death tolls have emerged. "It appears to be an isolated incident and the soldier is believed to have been a staff sergeant." Isaf Deputy Commander Lt Gen Adrian Bradshaw said: "I wish to convey my profound regrets and dismay at...

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United States service member walked out of a military base in a rural district of southern Afghanistan on Sunday and opened fire on three nearby houses, killing at least 15 civilians

 United States service member walked out of a military base in a rural district of southern Afghanistan on Sunday and opened fire on three nearby houses, killing at least 15 civilians, local villagers and provincial officials said. Related Security Fears Lead Groups to Rethink Work in Afghanistan (March 11, 2012) U.S. and Afghanistan Agree on Prisoner Transfer as Part of Long-Term Agreement (March 10, 2012) Afghan Officer Sought in Killing of 9 Colleagues (March 9, 2012) Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Readers’ Comments Share your thoughts. Post a Comment » Read All Comments (1) » The shooting risks further inciting anti-American sentiment in Afghanistan and troubling a relationship that...

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Helicopter rescue for crew of ship aground

 Coast guards in Italy have used helicopters to rescue the crew of a cargo ship after it ran aground on a reef off Sicily in stormy seas. All 19 crew members were ferried to shore by helicopters after the captain of the Gelso M gave the order to abandon ship. Weather conditions are deteriorating in the area near the city of Syracuse on Sicily's south-east coast. There were no reports of any cargo aboard the Italian-flagged vessel. Coastguard spokesman Cosimo Nicastro said four helicopters had been used to airlift the crew to safety, and all of them were well. Helicopters were needed for the evacuation because the ship's position on the reefs had made it impossible for the crew to lower lifeboats or for rescue vessels to approach. The ship's double hull meant there was a low risk...

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Abusing your embutido is prejudicial for your health

 It has been revealed that those who eat more than 20 grams of chorizo or other embutidos a day could see symptoms and in severe cases suffer a chronic obstruction to the lungs, known as Epoc. It’s thought that the cause of the problem comes from the nitrates which are added as preservatives. The warning comes from CREAL, the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, who have published their study in the European Respiratory Journal. They say that more than 18,000 people die from Epoc each ye...

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German man arrested after Málaga lawyer's body found in the boot of his own car

It's now been established that robbery was the motive of the fatal attackThe lawyer's car where his body was found in the boot -The body of a lawyer, named as Salvador Andrés Reina, has been found in the boot of his car in Málaga. The lawyer had vanished in strange circumstances in Málaga last Friday and his body was found on Thursday, in the boot of his own car, parked by the bus station in the city. Police say the man’s body shows evident signs of having suffered violence, having been stabbed several times. A 50 year old German man, named with the initials P.R.B. has been arrested in connection with the case. He was arrested before the body was recovered on Thursday morning. Questioning has revealed that he had pretended to be a client, and killed the lawyer to rob him of 1,200 € which...

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Spain's 2 big unions call for general strike March 29

Spain's two main unions on Friday called a general strike for March 29 to protest the new conservative government's labor reforms and austerity cuts. It will be the first general strike against the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which won elections last November and took office late last December, in the midst of Spain's deep economic crisis. The last general strike, in September 2010, was against the then-Socialist government, which also had initiated austerity measures. That strike slowed industry and transport, but much of the country went to work and many analysts saw it as a kind of a draw between the government and unions. Since then, the economic crisis has deepened. Spain's jobless rate is nearly 23 percent overall, and nearly 50 percent for youth. Nearly 5.3 million Spaniards...

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