Every new year, the Spanish government prints a list of municipalities which are due to revise the estimated values of registered properties for tax purposes, and in 2020 it’s Yaiza’s turn. The catastro (register) is an important part of every local council’s money-raising activities, and complicated equations are used to calculate how much rises should […]
Martin Schofield is generally tucked away behind the drums in the Band of Gypsies Lanzarote. Julie Helliwell met up with him to hear more about his musical career.
A vivid, multicoloured type-print of flavours and textures on a plate, Antonio Chicón’s “all-terrain” fruit salad is the perfect celebratory dish for a St Valentine’s dinner, a wedding feast or a carnival battery-charger. The salad also makes use of seasonal ingredients such as strawberries and wrinkled passion fruit, and is covered in a spiced aphrodisiac […]
1.7% of random alcohol and drug tests carried out by Guardia Civil officers in the weeks before Christmas turned out positive. Over 168,000 random tests were done, and 1,606 drivers tested positive for alcohol, while 1,348 were discovered to be under the influence of drugs. Cannabis was the most common drug, with cocaine and amphetamines […]
The Spanish government are planning to introduce a diesel tax that will raise €38 for every thousand litres of fuel sold. Once hailed as a solution to emissions, diesel fuel has now been classed as highly contaminant, and diesel vehicles have already been banned from several large city centres. The new Spanish tax is intended […]
Road traffic deaths in Spain fell by 7.6% to 1,098 in 2019, despite an increase in the amount of cars and journeys across the nation. 4,398 people overall required hospital attention after an accident. Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande- Marlaska presented the figures last month, saying that although he welcomed the positive trend, the total […]
Coach Ian Kerr reports on the healthy youth rugby scene that can be found every Saturday morning at Playa Honda. The Christmas festivities meant a pause in the calendar for the Lanzarote Rugby School. However, with the New Year and Kings’ Day behind us, training started afresh on the 11th January. With renewed vigour, the […]
After passing the halfway mark of the season the Rojillos (The Reds) are in 14th spot and only three points clear of the relegation positions in the Tercera Division (Fourth Tier). Lanzarote have only been defeated five times in this campaign and there are just four clubs who have bettered this. The problem lies with […]
Yaiza Ayuntamiento has published a teaching guide for families and schools to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Lanzarote’s most famous poet, Víctor Fernández Gopar “El Salinero” (The Saltmaker). The teaching guide is introduced by two microscopic pink algae called Duna and Liella who live in the Salinas de Janubio, and the guide […]
Charmaine Arbouin is the British Consul for Andalusia and the Canary Islands. Based in Málaga, she covers the regions of Spain with by far the largest concentration of British residents. We pulled her to one side for a quick chat.
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