As you may have noticed, there’s not a lot going on at the moment. All the more reason to snap up a ticket for the charity fun quiz at the Boatyard in Costa Teguise, which takes place in a fortnight’s time and is in aid of SARA animal shelter. There’ll be quizzing, cash prize bingo, […]
The inter tourist season is an opportunity that the Canaries can not afford to lose. As a result, the Canarian government is drawing up plans to test all arrivals to the islands. However, if Spain’s government does not agree to such a plan, the Canaries will ask tour operators to make a negative test result […]
The return to school on Lanzarote looks increasingly doubtful as the island suffers a second wave of Covid-19 infections. The Canarian education councillor had admitted that no return to school will be possible under current rates, and parents, teachers have expressed opposition to the current plans, which will be finally decided on 10th Septemeber Canarian […]
It was a question of when rather than if, but Germany has finally added the Canaries to the rest of Spain on its “blacklist” of countries to which travel is not recommended. Visitors to the Canaries must now provide a negative PCR test result or quarantine themselves for 15 days on their return to Germany. […]
The “Teguise pact” may be the most important consequence of the huge outpouring of concern following the killing of the street dog Timple in July. Timple died of suffocation after a Costa Teguise couple tied and bound his muzzle with tape. The couple received suspended four-month prison sentences, but video footage of the dog’s death […]
The Canaries has introduced a free insurance policy which will reimburse tourists for any costs incurred from Covid-19. First published in Gazette Life, September 1st 2020. The initiative, which was announced by the islands’ Tourism Councillor Yaiza Castilla, is an attempt to lure tourists back to the islands following the impact of recently introduced quarantine […]
Canarian President Ángel Victor Torres informed islanders yesterday that he had received the assurances of Spain’s employment minister, Yolanda Díaz, that ERTE (furlough) schemes would be extended “for as long as necessary” after 30th September, when the current term expires. Torres said that the minister had made it clear that “if it takes three months, […]
Following a spike in new coronavirus infections last month, the Canarian government finally followed the rest of Spain and introduced laws making mask use compulsory in public streets and indoor and outdoor spaces that are open to the public. First published in Gazette Life, September 1st 2020. Exceptions include: • Children under six years old. […]
Last month, King Juan Carlos 1 announced that he would leave Spain to live in exile. In a letter to his son, the ruling monarch King Felipe VI, the ex-monarch said he had made the decision to leave the Zarzuela Palace and move abroad because of the controversy caused by “certain incidents in the past”, […]
The figures are sobering. Lanzarote broke records for new coronavirus cases on two consecutive days last week, and the daily total of positive tests dwarfs those that were registered at the height of the crisis in late March and early April. Lanzarote currently has 429 active cases of Covid-19, and although the vast majority are […]
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