May News:
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Severe turmoil ahead as new road gets green light
The regional transport ministry has given the green
light to the plans to build the next part of the Icod
to Santiago del Teide missing link in the island ring
road.
The latest stretch, between Icod and El Tanque will
cost 165 million euros and will be two years in the
making.
The new road will skirt Buen Paso, pass between Santa
Bárbara and El Lomo Blanco and cross the higher
reaches of the municipalities of Icod where, in the
area of Amparo, a village called El Pie de las Lajas
will, according to the planners, be “affected”
by the work.
A list of so-called “false tunnels” gives
some indication of the scale of the scheme. In the
Icod valley the road will have no less than eight
of them and in addition there will be two huge viaducts.
The tunnel planned for La Vega will be 1,200 metres
long.
Conservationists who have been fighting the scheme
tooth and nail will give little credence to a statement
issued by the regional transport ministry which said
the road will have no urban impact because the design
takes into account the environment, traffic circulation
and flow and socio-economic factors.
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Cabildo awards Tenerife Amable prizes to children
Cabildo awards the Tenerife Amable prizes to
the children with the winning story entries in the 7
to 13 years age group
The Cabildo, through Tourismo de Tenerife, recently
gave out the prizes in the 7 to 13 age group for the
winning Tenerife Amable stories. The competition which
was held throughout the summer under the motto “Amabilidad
y tourismo”, was for the participating children
elaborate on, in the form of a short story, their opinions
and ideas on “friendliness and hospitality”
towards visitors to the island.
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Promotion of varieties of "Honeys of Tenerife"
The Cabildo promotes the varieties of honeys
available in Tenerife through the release of an explanatory
poster with real-size images of the products according
to the type of honey.
In this first publication, a thousand posters will be
distributed at the different points of sale of the product,
with the purpose of improving the general knowledge
of the product on the part of the consumers. It is an
attempt to show the diversity of colours and textures
of the traditional honeys of Tenerife..
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Tenerife cheeses to Japan
The Cabildo collaborates in the promotion of
the islands cheeses in the Japanese market
The Minister for Ganaderia y Pesca, Oscar Diaz, along
with a group of Japanese industralists made a visit
to the facilities of the Quesería de Benijos,
in La Orotava, managed by the Cooperative of Candelaria,
with the purpose of showing them the range of cheeses
manufactured there.
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