Yaiza Ayuntamiento has issued an urgent request to the Cabildo, calling for the immediate removal of approximately twelve abandoned palm tree trunks at the entrance to the village of Uga.
Yaiza Mayor, Óscar Noda, is demanding that the Cabildo take action to clear what locals have termed a palm tree “graveyard”. He further insisted the Cabildo must properly “maintain the landscaped areas on the sides of roads to prevent their loss or degradation, as is the case we are reporting.”
Echoing the mayor’s frustration, the Councillor for Parks and Gardens, Rubén Arca, stated that the Yaiza Council has repeatedly stepped in to handle irrigation, pest control, and pruning in palm groves that fall under the Cabildo’s remit. “It is high time that it assumed its responsibilities,” said Arca. “This is not the first time we have demanded action on cleaning roadside verges, installing irrigation systems and cleaning gardens in various areas of our municipality. When the Cabildo has taken action, we have no problem in publicly thanking them. We are calling for the immediate removal of the palm tree graveyard that is spoiling the village of Uga.”
Noda pointed directly to the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, as the main person responsible “for the apathy and neglect in the care of the island’s landscape.” Noda went further, stating, “I do not want to think that his neglect in this matter and others, such as the lack of action on the sinkhole in Los Hervideros or corrective measures to prevent the water cuts we suffer every week in Yaiza, has anything to do with a dark strategy dictated to him to harm municipalities that are not governed by the CC-PP.”
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