Mario's Restaurant Pizerria in Puerto Del Carmen are reopening! Their provisional opening time will be from 12:00, for any further information don't hesitate to contact them! Plus, they have a brand new website! Check it out, here. Phone:…

Spain's President Pedro Sánchez has announced that Spain will will open its borders to 30 European nations from next Monday, 21st June. Although the agreement applies primarily to nations in the Schengen area, the Spanish government also confirmed…

One thing has been made very clear during the lockdown in Spain – home is a safe space for you, and for society. When you’re at home, you’re unlikely to be exposed to infection. More importantly, you are not going to infect anyone else. The…

Lanzarote has spent weeks with a figure of three positive cases of Covid-19, but a closer look at those cases shows that there is still a lot to learn about the disease. Two of the three are recovering in a ward at the Dr José Molina…

Canarian President Ángel Víctor Torres has said that he will continue to fight for tests at origin for tourists who wish to come to the Canaries.  Torres told the Cadena Ser channel that this topic was one he had continually insisted on…

La Graciosa reopens to tourists today, with ferry company Lineas Romero operating 10 daily journeys to and from the island. The ferry company announced that “the eighth Canary island is now open for all Canarian residents to enjoy.”   La…

Spain's ministries of Health, Education and Professional Training have presented a document that gives an glimpse of how different life will be be for schoolchildren when they return to classes in September after an unprecedented six-month…

The Spanish government has ruled that mask use will remain compulsory in public places where social distancing cannot be guaranteed once the country moves into the “new normality”. The law, unchanged from the one which currently…

In May's Gazette we speculated that the low incidence of coronavirus in the Canaries could have been assisted by the heavy calima (Saharan dust storm)  that caused a “mini-lockdown” three weeks before the official coronavirus lockdown. Now…

On 28th of May, the two Covid 19 patients remaining in the Dr José Molina Orosa Hospital tested negative for Covid 19. For almost 24 hours, Lanzarote was free of the virus until a positive case arrived from Madrid and was immediately quarantined.…

The Canarian Government has, so far, failed to respond to requests from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to give the two eastern islands special consideration in its crisis reconstruction plan. Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are far more reliant…

A child who arrived on a patera (boat carrying migrants) last Thursday has tested positive for coronavirus. The patera was detected 20 miles off the Lanzarote coast on Thursday morning and intercepted by a Salvamar maritime rescue vessel. …

Hairdressers opened again in early May, and so Gazette designer Sabrina Suppers broke out of lockdown to get her hair cut at Sculpture Salon in Puerto del Carmen. First published in Gazette Life, June 1st 2020. Since Monday 4th…

Arrorro, a traditional lullaby sung by generations of Canarian mothers to their children, is the official anthem of the Canary Islands. This year, to mark a Canary Day that was almost entirely cancelled by coronavirus, the Canarian government…