ON MARCH 22 ND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR MATERIA VIVA CULTURFEST

With more than 10 uninterrupted hours of gigs and dj’s sessions, MUSIC is the espine of Materia Viva Culturfest. However, this festival is so much more: it is a cultural and ludic gathering where FACTORIES/ACTIVITY LABS are available for everyone – from kids to adults, with a wide spectrum of SHOWS and a product MINIMARKETS, brands and projects of our island. All that concentrated on the 22nd or March in Maspalomas.

A boat flying the British flag, Lazy Bones, carrying 600 kilos of cocaine destined for the Canary Islands, has been intercepted by police and is now in Puerto de la Luz, Las Palmas.

It’s been a Black Friday for British tourists and those who live in Gran Canaria but who have their incomes or pensions paid from the UK.

Javier Rodriguez Marcos Cabrera was again in police custody last night in Salto del Negro prison after two girls identified him as their attempted abductor.

They’ve been trying to make it happen for several years, but this time it looks as though organisers have succeeded: American drag star RuPaul? will be appearing at the Las Palmas Carnaval Drag Queen Gala on February 1st.

A group of agents assigned to the provincial division of the judicial police brigade and the local judicial police of Telde arrested a 37 year old man in the late evening of Tuesday January 8.

The mayor of Telde, Francisco Santiago, yesterday announced his intention to convene an urgent meeting with all the mayors of the island to deal with cases of missing children in Gran Canaria, following the attempted abduction of a 10 year old girl.

Sosa Manuel Medina, known as "Sandokán", this afternoon (Monday)finally recovered the body of the man who fell into the sea on Friday in Costa Ayala, in Gran Canaria.

February 1, 2008
9:00 pm

Cries of anguish and despair from Sandra Dominguez, a little ten year old living in the neighborhood of La Garita, averted a kidnap attempt on Friday afternoon by men in a white van.