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Updated 1 April 2019: It’s not just the mamotreto itself that’s demolished. As of tonight, three of those condemned for corruption in its construction, including former Santa Cruz mayor Miguel Zerolo, are tonight in Tenerife II prison. Zerolo himself is now starting his seven year sentence, and with him are former Planning councillor Manuel Parejo, also serving seven years, and businessman Antonio Plasencia, serving five. Three others are expected to enter prison shortly.
Updated 18 September 2017: The legal appeals by Santa Cruz politicians against jail sentences might be ongoing but the actual building itself is coming down. Finally, and thanks primarily to the efforts of the pressure group Plataforma por el derribo del mamotreto y contra la corrupción, work has started today to demolish the rough construction that was supposed to be a multi-storey car park serving Las Teresitas beach.
It has variously been called an eyesore, a white elephant, and a useless great lump – a mamotreto – and those were the polite names. Worse, it has introduced stress, unsightliness and frustration into the life of residents of San Andres. At last the controversial monstrosity that the Courts have ruled was put up illegally and corruptly in 2008, and at enormous public expense – around €10m – is going down. Perhaps that will end up being the fate of the politicians behind it too.
Source; Janet Anscombe: https://www.janetanscombe.com/news/first-prison-sentence-ever-in-the-canaries-for-planning-irregularities-given-in-santa-cruz.html
One dead and two seriously injured as lorry overturns and breaks through central reservation of TF1 at Fañabe
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Loro Parque support sees 14 of the most trafficked tropical bird in the world, the Great Green Macaw, released back into wild in protected Ecuador reserve
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British nationals will not lose out on inheritance and gift tax after Brexit as Spain accepts regional discounts for non-EU nationals
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British man suffers facial injuries after being attacked in Playa de las Américas
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Summer 2019 weather: second yellow alert in a month for costeros around south Tenerife coastline
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Second motorcyclist dead in less than a week after accident on TF1 in Arico
In the second motorbike fatality in less than a week (see HERE), another rider has died in an accident last night. Emergency services say that they were called out at 11pm with reports that there was a motorcycle accident on the northbound carriageway of the TF1 in...
Seismic cluster underway near Vilaflor with “microtremor” off coast of Güímar
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The biennial Agatha Christie Festival back in Puerto de la Cruz this November
Every two years Puerto de la Cruz hosts an Agatha Christie Festival, and this year’s will be between 4 and 10 November, with the usual film screenings, enactments, talks and readings of her works and her relationship with Puerto de la Cruz. She stayed in the Hotel...
Police follow up report of meeting with Irishman Peter Wilson who remains the subject of an official missing persons investigation
Updated 8 July: The Policía Nacional is investigating a report that Peter Wilson was met recently in a south Tenerife bar. Self-evidently, while their enquiries into the report are ongoing, Peter Wilson remains the subject of an official missing persons investigation:...
Police make arrest in case of the taxi driver whose body was found in the garage of his San Isidro home
Updated 8 July: Police arrested a south-American man over the weekend on suspicion of being involved in the death of the taxi driver whose body was found in the garage of his home in San Isidro. The case is sub judice and so no further details are currently available...
La Orotava former broadcaster congratulated on 100th birthday
We can all dream but only some will make it, and one who did is La Orotava’s Isabel Lucía Dorta Hernández, congratulated today by the borough’s mayor Francisco Linares for reaching 100 years of age. They say “it’s good to talk” and clearly it is because Isabel is a...
Callao Learning Centre announces school year 2019-2020
Updated 6 July 2019: It’s hard to believe it’s five years since the last update to this post, but the Callao Learning Centre has gone from strength to strength in that time. The website HERE has been updated … have a look HERE for some reviews from delighted parents....
