Entries by Gazette Life

Weekend Weather Warnings

AEMET has issued a host of yellow warnings over the weekend for the Canaries. Over the weekend, there will be a whole host of yellow warnings for wind, dust and coastal. However, there’s no need to start boarding up your windows and doors just yet; as all the warnings are yellow classification. This means that […]

Scooter Round-Up

Teguise Ayuntamiento has removed around 50 of the electric scooters owned by then German Wind company from public roads and pavements. The council said it had done so because the scooters fail to comply with laws relating to citizens’ safety and co-existence. A statement by Teguise local police chief Miguel Ángel Jiménez seems to indicate […]

Clooney Arrives on the Canaries

George Clooney landed on La Palma yesterday to film scenes for his new film Good Morning, Midnight. Clooney plays an astronomer in the film, and it’s been confirmed that he’ll be filming at the spectacular Roque de los Muchachos observatory, located on the highest point of La Isla Bonita. It seems that the Canaries are […]

Canarian Tax Changes

The Canary Islands’ regional budget for 2020 has introduced 2 new brackets for income tax, which affect higher earners. By Paul Montague, Partner, Blevins Franks While the Spanish state budget for 2020 is still pending, the local government in the Canary Islands has approved its regional budget for 2020. This includes changes to income tax […]

Paw Patrol!

This month, we had received an email about Jovi, a dog from SARA that had been adopted by Rob from Lanz Luxury Villas. After seeing the response to the article, we’ve decided to make a regular feature out of it. Tell us about your rescue animal, and send us pictures and videos. We’ll pick the […]

Weather Watch Feb

As I write this, January 2020 has turned out very pleasant so far, averaging 21 degrees with plenty of sunshine and only a little rain. February sees the start of the carnival celebrations with the parade in Puerto Del Carmen on Saturday 29th. If you have not seen one before, you are in for a […]

Tax Revision Yaiza Property

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 […]

Recipe Of The Month

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 […]

Drink Drivers Nabbed

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 […]