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The Canary Guide Weekend Tips 21-23 December 2018
Its the last weekend before most of the foreign residents celebrate their Yuletime dinners and get togethers. Of course here in Spain, and on the Canary Islands, December 25th is a day of quiet contemplation with the main gift giving days being January 5th & 6th in celebration of the Day of the Three Kings, so for Canary Islanders there is still a full week of Christmas shopping to be done. The weather continues to be glorious and sunny over the coming days, just...
New local law prohibits leaving animals in parked cars for more than 20 minutes, or tied up for more than 2 hours
A new law is being brought into force on the north of Gran Canaria, forbidding citizens from leaving any animal inside a parked car for more than 20 minutes, or from leaving them tied up for more than two hours. The far reaching and progressive new municipal ordinance also outlaws the use of animals in public shows and their use in films when they may suffer injury, as well as prohibiting their entry into public buildings, the killing pigeons, raffles in which animals are offered as a prize,...
Urban Plan presented for new hotel capacity on the south of Gran Canaria
San Bartolomé de Tirajana is set to grow its tourism capacity over the coming years with a newly presented plan outlining the urban development of lands located on the touristed south of Gran Canaria at Tarajalillo, Meloneras and Santa Águeda. The new General Supplementary Plan, drafted by Gesplan technicians, for the Ministry of Territorial Policy, has been presented before the entire local authorities specifically highlighting these areas in which to increase the amount of accommodation...
The Canary Guide Weekend Tips 14-16 December 2018
A lovely sunny December weekend ahead across the south as a sunny winter shapes up in the run up to christmas. 14-16 DECEMBER, MOGÁNCHRISTMAS PROGRAM - MOGAN TOWN HALL The Mogán Christmas program runs from December 14 to January 5 and includes various activities and events spread across virtually all neighbourhoods in the municipality. So Arguineguín, Mogán, Motor Grande, Las Filipinas, Barranquillo Andrés, El Horno, Veneguera and Playa de Mogán will all enjoy events...
The primary electoral battle next May will centre on Gran Canaria, with posturing already having begun in the Canary Islands Parliament
Whether you like politics or not, it is the only place you, as a resident, have a real consistent voice in how you are governed on a local and regional level. It has real effects on your life, everything from building policy, to rubbish collection, to licensing laws, and even how the rules on holiday homes are interpreted, all have a real, every day effect on how locals live their lives. You only have until the end of December to register at your local town hall for...
Mogán Christmas program includes parades, markets and nativity scenes
Mogán have presented their Christmas program and a calendar of events for the municipality in 2019 this week at the Las Marañuelas Training Centre, in Arguineguín.The Christmas program will run from this Friday December 14 to January 5 and will include activities spread across virtually all neighborhoods of the municipality. So Arguineguín, Mogán, Motor Grande, Las Filipinas, Barranquillo Andrés, El Horno, Veneguera and Playa de Mogán will each enjoy events "aimed at the whole...
Dead British girl reportedly argued with her boyfriend before her disappearance on Tenerife
The body of a dead British woman found floating near the Puerto de la Cruz lighthouse, on the neighbouring island of Tenerife, is thought almost certainly to be that of Amy Louise Gerard, an orca trainer employed by Loro Parque who lived in the locality. The Spanish National Police Specialised Violent Crime Unit (Unidad de Delincuencia Especializada y Violenta, UDEV) have opened an investigation trying to reconstruct the final hours of the 28 year old who was last seen alive on...
Sunshine and Saharan Dust for the “Bridge” weekend on Gran Canaria…
This first week of December, marked by two annual national holidays, which this year fall at the end of the week to form what is known as a "bridge" weekend, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, will be dominated in the Canary Islands by blue skies, an increase of temperatures and the possibility of Saharan sands suspended in the air, known locally as Calima, according to the forecast of the Spanish State Meteorological...
The Canary Guide Weekend Tips 7-9 December
A warm, beautiful, long December weekend ahead with two bank holidays in rapid succession making it favourable for many locals to enjoy a "puente", long "bridge" weekend break in the run up to Yule time. Expect to see southern beaches with more people from the north than is usual. Thursday is Spanish Constitution Day (Día de la Constitución) and marks the 40th anniversary of a referendum held on December 6, 1978 to enshrine into law the document that finally converted...
Mogán: €100m of smuggled cocaine seized, 17 members of gang caught red handed in Playa del Cura
National Police have arrested a total of 17 people (including two brothers), in a joint operation with the Customs and Tax Agency, after they landed 2,875 kilos of cocaine on to Playa del Cura, in the southern municipality of Mogán (Gran Canaria). The seizure resulted from an investigation that has lasted a year and a half, and in which officials from Huelva, on the Spanish Peninsula, have participated, as well as agents from the National Police central Drugs and Organised Crime...
