The pound rose to a three-year high against the Euro immediately following Boris Johnson’s victory in the UK General election. Brexit has, over the last three and a half years, been bad news for sterling, but the currency markets have long been “pricing in” the various outcomes. What they really dislike is uncertainty, and the […]
One of the most worrying cases on Lanzarote has come to an end with the acquittal of the Guardia Civil officer Sergeant Gloria Moreno in a Las Palmas court. The court cleared Sgt Moreno of charges of falsification of documents and slander. This shocking story begins in February 2015, when Sgt Moreno authorised a raid […]
The ten years since the start of 2010 have seen immense changes in the world, and they’ve affected each one of our lives here on Lanzarote as much as anywhere. We look back at a decade of conflict and turmoil. When a Tunisian street seller set himself on fire in 2010 as a protest against […]
As Lanzarote steps into the 2020s, its priorities are to maintain the levels of tourism of recent years, as well as to tackle urgent new environmental realities that could seriously affect a low-lying island. At the time of writing it looks as though Spain may finally be able to form a government, which will bring […]
The Juan Brito Foundation, formed by family and friends of the multi- talented Juan Brito, who died two years ago at the age of 98, organised a moving celebration of his centenary year at San Bartolomé’s theatre last month. On stage was the upright armchair in which Don Juan received visitors at his apartment in […]
Felicia Ann Schwind 1943 – 2019 Flick passed away peacefully on the 3rd of December 2019 at Devonshire House in Sudbury, Suffolk after a short illness. Born on the 25th May, 1943 during an air raid in Birmingham, Flick was a model for a fashion house before deciding to follow her mother and sister Jane […]
Three and a half years of uncertainty is over and the UK will be officially out of the EU on 31st January after Boris Johnson’s Conservative party won the 12th December General Election with a huge majority. Johnson’s election campaign was based on one simple message: “Get Brexit Done”, and he forced prospective Tory MPs […]
The bulldozers rumbled into Yaiza just before Christmas as workers arrived to carry out the sentence of demolition on various buildings that had been constructed illegally by Dimas Martín. Martín was ruled to have built bedrooms and a swimming pool onto an existing property that was located in the Timanfaya National Park. Initially, he was […]
Last June, María Dolores Corujo , known as Loli to friends, became the most powerful woman on Lanzarote when she was elected as President of the island’s government, the Cabildo, ending almost 10 years of rule by the Coalición Canaria.
In one of the most desperately poor areas of India, the Anantapur Ultramarathon has now become an annual event, bringing hope, joy and the promise of a future to thousands. Anantapur is where the Spanish missionary Vicente Ferrer established his Foundation which has spent years changing lives person by person, family by family, village by […]
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