The week in review
news review
06 May 2018
/ 14:38
CORFU. Catch up on what happened in Corfu this week.
Last Sunday saw an extremely positive voluntary initiative being put into action throughout Greece – Let’s Do It Greece - with beaches and public places being cleaned up by organizations and individuals. Corfu, of course, also took part and a large number of areas were cleaned up by volunteers all over the island.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t all good news regarding rubbish. Only 1 in 3 of those employed by the Municipal Cleansing Services have taken up the jobs and contractors are being used to collect all the refuse that has piled up. The Municipal Union wrote a letter stating their opposition to this, but at the beginning of the week the Mayor said that refuse collection would be back to normal in 2-3 days (almost a week has passed since he said it). The Corfu diaspora in New York also expressed their concern.
At Temploni landfill the residents association decided to block access to one of the units in the facility and there was a good deal of tension when refuse trucks came to dump rubbish. Lefkimmi residents held a protest rally blocking access to their landfill facility on Thursday and the Municipality responded by lodging a complaint and saying they were going to sue. The residents held an even bigger demonstration on Saturday evening but unfortunately on Sunday (today) morning fire broke out and three buildings were burnt down.
Not so much about roads in the news this week, though it was announced that there would be 900,000 Euros for road repairs in the Phaeaces district.
Positive notes on the tourism front. This coming week sees the 1st Corfu Food & Wine Festival – an ambitious project which we all hope goes well. The new ferry service connecting the Ionian Islands directly commenced on Wednesday and it seems that there will be an increase in domestic tourism over the coming month with a large number of Greek school trips coming to Corfu.
This week also saw the 3-day visit of award-winning filmmaker Steven Bernstein to Corfu, who spoke and worked with the Department of AudioVisual Arts at the Ionian University.
Good news also with the missing Corfu woman being found at last in Igoumenitsa.
The court decided that the man charged with the death of Eleni Spitieri at a celebration party two weeks ago should not be remanded in custody until his trial but placed under restrictive orders.
Finally, watch this short video of a band of drummers entertaining locals and visitors in Liston on Saturday morning.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t all good news regarding rubbish. Only 1 in 3 of those employed by the Municipal Cleansing Services have taken up the jobs and contractors are being used to collect all the refuse that has piled up. The Municipal Union wrote a letter stating their opposition to this, but at the beginning of the week the Mayor said that refuse collection would be back to normal in 2-3 days (almost a week has passed since he said it). The Corfu diaspora in New York also expressed their concern.
At Temploni landfill the residents association decided to block access to one of the units in the facility and there was a good deal of tension when refuse trucks came to dump rubbish. Lefkimmi residents held a protest rally blocking access to their landfill facility on Thursday and the Municipality responded by lodging a complaint and saying they were going to sue. The residents held an even bigger demonstration on Saturday evening but unfortunately on Sunday (today) morning fire broke out and three buildings were burnt down.
Not so much about roads in the news this week, though it was announced that there would be 900,000 Euros for road repairs in the Phaeaces district.
Positive notes on the tourism front. This coming week sees the 1st Corfu Food & Wine Festival – an ambitious project which we all hope goes well. The new ferry service connecting the Ionian Islands directly commenced on Wednesday and it seems that there will be an increase in domestic tourism over the coming month with a large number of Greek school trips coming to Corfu.
This week also saw the 3-day visit of award-winning filmmaker Steven Bernstein to Corfu, who spoke and worked with the Department of AudioVisual Arts at the Ionian University.
Good news also with the missing Corfu woman being found at last in Igoumenitsa.
The court decided that the man charged with the death of Eleni Spitieri at a celebration party two weeks ago should not be remanded in custody until his trial but placed under restrictive orders.
Finally, watch this short video of a band of drummers entertaining locals and visitors in Liston on Saturday morning.
