Thursday, February 01, 2007
Fiesta in the Courts
Once again, say Diario de Avisos, the future of Carnaval in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, seems to be in the hands of the judges. Yesterday, a sentence was handed down by the Superior Court of Justice in the Canary Islands, partly in favour of a small group of residents in the center of the city who had denounced the excessive noise from the partying. The decision recognized that the noise harms the residents' fundamental right to rest, but, rather than banning the Carnaval from the streets, imposes a limit of 55 decibels on the night time revelries. Something, which the report points out, is pretty impossible to achieve, since that is approximately the level of a conversation. The other option is to move the festivities to non-residential areas.
La fiesta de los jueces
Santa Cruz tendrá que controlar más los ruidos, pero habrá Carnaval en la calle
Labels: Carnaval
