El Hierro lets fishers back onto its limpet coast for six weeks, and plans to count what’s left
Two requests, a week apart, started it. On 6 October, El Hierro’s fishers’ guild, the Cofradía de Pescadores Nuestra Señora de los Reyes, asked the regional government to review the rules on shore gathering of shellfish. On 13 October it narrowed the ask: open the north-west zone, temporarily. On 15 October the regional fisheries directorate […]
In La Lajita, dirty water is cleaned with plants, and a European project came to look
A wildlife park is not where you expect to hear about wastewater, yet on Thursday 22 October in La Lajita, in the municipality of Pájara, that was the subject. Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura hosted experts from universities, research centres and companies linked to the European Natalie project, who came to see how its natural water treatment […]
Data processed at home: two edge nodes reach the Canaries, and distance stops working against the islands
“For an archipelago, latency is measured in kilometres.” The line belongs to Jorge Alonso, consulting director at Velorcios, and it is the clearest of those spoken on Thursday 22 October in El Sebadal, at the Canarias7 offices, during the forum “Nodos Edge: dato soberano, inteligencia en tiempo real”. The newspaper organised it and Telefónica sponsored […]
Who runs the Canary Islands’ airports? Talks with Madrid are set for 29 October
In January, according to RTVC, the control tower at El Hierro airport cut its service hours by twenty minutes because it was short of staff. Aena opened disciplinary proceedings against Saerco, the company that runs the tower. The Canarian government pointed to cases like this when it asked for a say in the archipelago’s airports. […]
The school canteen as customer: how El Hierro buys organic from its own farms
Gáldar, on Gran Canaria, spends four days from Thursday talking about farming. The most concrete case study in the programme, though, sits on another island and fits in a school kitchen. The CEIP Valverde on El Hierro prepares 276 meals every day. They feed its 270 infant and primary pupils and the pupils of four […]
How does a surgeon rehearse on tissue that doesn’t exist yet? One answer starts at ULPGC
How do you learn to operate on tissue that doesn’t exist yet, the tissue of a patient arriving next week? One answer, on Gran Canaria, comes from a small company born in a university lab. Gradual Research S.L. comes out of the Integrated and Advanced Manufacturing research group at the University of Las Palmas de […]
Water and energy under one roof: Canagua y Energía wraps up today in Agüimes
Can you taste seawater, or rather what is left of it after desalination? At Canagua y Energía you can: Aqualia is offering tastings of its new “Alma de mar” sea salts, made from brine and flavoured with lemon, chilli, activated carbon, tomato or wine. They will go on sale soon. The fair, now in its […]
Canary Islands Taxis: The Rules Are Still a Draft and the Airport Fare Is Still Up in the Air
Forty euros by day, 45 at night and on public holidays. That is the maximum fare the Canarian government proposed on 21 August for a taxi ride between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the airport. Two months on, the figure is still a proposal, inside a regulation that has not been finalised. On Tuesday […]
Starmus Week: When Tenerife and La Palma Hosted the Artemis II Astronauts
On Saturday 17 October, at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a symphony orchestra backed a tenor and a Queen guitarist. Earlier, at 19:30, there had been a ceremony with three astronauts. It is not what you expect to see at a commercial harbour, and it is how Starmus chose to open its eighth […]
Spain’s November 11 General Strike: In the Canaries, the Argument Starts With Rent
How much of a Canarian salary is left once the rent is paid? For Ignacio Hernández of CCOO, almost nothing: in an interview with Diario de Avisos he says rent swallows the whole wage. That is a union assessment, not an official statistic, but it sets the tone for the strike day that will reach […]