MSC Orchestra will have departures from Alicante and Malaga from June to October, stopping at the ports of Cádiz and Mahón, as well as other Mediterranean destinations • With this announcement, the company reinforces its commitment to the city of Alicante, in which the almost 40,000 passengers will visit the city on 12 stopovers MSC Cruises, a leading European cruise company, reinforces its...
There are 14 more deaths reported in the province of Alicante due to coronavirus. The number of deaths increases compared to the previous day in which there were six deaths - 607 people have been admitted to Alicante hospitals, 143 of them in ICUs bringing the total number of deaths to 283. In the Valencian Community there are 35 more deceased and the global number rises to 672. With the curve of...
SHOWING that the State of Emergency confinement rules have moved well beyond the advisory stage, the Denia police sanctioned 44 people on Wednesday (1 April) for various breaches. Details of 20 of these were sent to the media and included the following: 1. Someone found walking in the small hours, ordered to go home and spotted out again half an hour later. 2. Two people travelling in the same car,...
THE Alicante University Museum (MUA) is currently holding an exhibition about the huge boom in Latin American literature in the 1960s. Many of the most important books in the age of modern literature were written in this period by authors such as Mario Vargas, Julio Cortazar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is perhaps the best known. The phenomenon came about for a...
BUDGET airline Ryanair has fallen foul of the Spanish courts for the second time in four months over charging passengers for taking hand luggage on a flight. In October, the carrier was told by a judge that it could not charge for hand luggage in Spain, but Ryanair said that its policy would not be changed. The latest case goes back to before the company introduced a new series of rules, as an Elche court...
TORREVIEJA Hospital´s Internal Medicine Service has received a top award for the quality of care that it provides to patients. The Spanish Society of Internal Medicine(SEMI) has given its SEMI Excellence award to the facility, based on a whole series of measurements. Areas analysed included training, research and management, as well as acute patient care in the hospital. Dr. Julio César Blázquez, the...
A BRITISH man has thumbed his nose up at Spanish authorities by climbing six Benidorm buildings within a week, despite being arrested by the National Police after his first stunt. The unnamed 19-year-old, who brands himself as social media as “The Little Nuisance” took in the three highest structures in the city, namely the InTempo building, the Torre Lugano, and then went up the Gran Bali on Sunday,...
LAST weekends Santa Faz festival in Alicante City attracted an estimated 300,000 visitors and as you would expect with that number of people the authorities were kept busy. There was a major operation to stop alcohol consumption by minors and as part of that 250 litres of alcohol were seized. The most serious health incidents were two people who suffered heart attacks one aged 71 and the other 51, both of...