2013 to be "horrific" year

[Janet]

That's the analysis of the President of the Canaries himself, Paulino Rivero, which he gave in Parliament yesterday as an attempt to prepare everyone, from the highest public servants to ordinary residents for what is going to happen next year. He didn't beat around the bush either. "Many" of those who work in the public sector, he said, must begin to think in terms of not being able to continue working in the administration. If there had been any lingering doubt about maintaining public employment in 2013, Rivero killed it stone dead.

Cuts in Madrid's regional funding, the next Presupuestos Generales del Estado (PGE), mean that even the situation we have come to know and increasingly fear over the last few years is nothing as to what is going to come. Already, some chemists are stocking only absolute medical essentials because they are on the verge of bankruptcy with Government payments months overdue; public transport, including ferries, is threatened because of Government payments overdue; firefighters are threatening strike action if guaranteed funding is even touched, as the Government is beginning to suggest. After the President's remarks yesterday, however, it seems that the "horror" is only just starting. JA

[Guanche]

I think he is being overly optimistic.

[poker]

And the price of all food is going to go up more .

There is a massive slaugter of animals for the moment becouse the grains all over the world have a bad yearly production.
So for the moment meat is cheap , by this time next year it will be mutch more.

Bread and other cereal based products will rise on price , Milk . . .

Also we have a bad Potatoe year , pests here in the Canaries ( 80% lost crop) and to wet in rest of europe . . .

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

And we won't even be able to drown our sorrows in a glass of vino.  Prices are set to rise because of the worst harvest in decades.

[poker]

No in Tenerife doubble wine than last year and very good quality the 2012 .

Problem is it wont be half price .:-

[Janet]

Here we go. Social Court 7 of Las Palmas has ruled that the Canarian Government's decision to suspend public sector workers is legal, and has authorized the first ERE (official procedure for laying off staff) for 87 employes and 17 early retirements in Gáldar. The judgment dismissed all legal arguments that such a procedure was illegal in a Public Administration, and on the contrary, accepted the corporation's economic arguments as proven and the lay-offs as reasonable. JA

[Guanche]

The wife's just told me about a friend of hers. She works for a company in Granadilla that make the steel reinforcement bars for concrete. Work has been hit hard but the owners are clinging on to hopes of a turn round. So much so that the work force agreed the every month three of them would sign on the dole for a week. After the week they are reemployed by the company. This gives them some money.

I am not sure about this but the wife is adamant. There is even a name for the practice. She going to see the friend later so I can post more info. I just can't see it myself.