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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

San Juan

Don't get alarmed tonight, if the entire island seems to be submerged in chaos with bonfires everywhere. We are neither under attack nor have been hit by a meteor shower. :P ;) If you don't have nothing to do tonight, i higly recomend you wherever you are on the isle, but specially those near to the Playa del Inlges (San Bartolomé) and the Canteras (Las Palmas) beaches to visit these beaches around 12:00 PM. Like every year in june, normally coinciding with days around the summer solstice, the night of the 23rd to 24th, we celebrate "San Juan". In this peculiar festivity there is a large fireworks spectacle and people make huge bonfires almost everywhere but the bigest are seen at the beaches. This was originally made to "strengthen the sun", since the days will get shorter every day until the winter solstice. You should witness ...
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Special delivery

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Yesterday night, at 12:00 PM i got a tip from a "source" i have telling me a light plane was at the beach of Playa del Águila at the south of the isle. I drove over there and to my surprise i saw a floatplane being pulled out of the water by the firemen. Specifically it was Lake Seawolf Renegade. The pilot was forced to land on the water after using up all hise fuel. Aparently hedid nothing wrong beside that, since he had all his documents in order, but then police found out that he had thrown out the plane several bales of cocain. The 40 year old uruguayan pilot, who said he came from the Sahara, was initially set free last night, but was aprehended this morning with a few carafes of kerosene, in order to refill the planes' tanks and flee Police has retrieved several bales one of ...
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The search for Yeremi continues

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
It's been now, 3 months since the 7 year old Yeremi Vargas disappeared in the municipality of Santa Lucia but he still hasn't been forgotten. Now, the security councillor of Santa Lucia has started an initiative to try to find him once again, but this time he intents to search in every well known in this municipality. He thinks that, as the other searched places haven't given any positive results, maybe he could have fallen into a well and hasn't been found for that reason. I don't mean to sound cruel, but i think if this kid hasn't been found yet and no one has demanded a ransom, he'd be possibly either dead or very far away. Let's hope it's the second option.

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The Firefighter mob

Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Las Palmas, June 8th, a firemen corporal from the Las Palmas firefighter consortium, a sergeant exam to pass and two hooded people. Might not tell you a lot, but that were the "ingredients" of a mafia-like incident on Friday. The mentioned corporal was on its way to do his theory exam to promote for a post as a sergeant when he was attacked and beat up by two hooded people. While he was beat up one of them said something like: "that'll teach you not want to do promotion exams". There were 25 firemen that aspirated for the 3 availiable sergeant posts, which became only 5 after the first aptitude test. The corporal was among those 5, something that made him suspect the two hooded to be some of his colleagues and report this incident to the police. Kinda shocked about that. Never thought we would live between such despicable people.

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New low cost flights

Saturday, June 9th, 2007
The Gran Canaria Tourist Board, has come to an agreement with the airline 'Jet2' wich will offer, starting in October this year, low cost flights from the UK to Gran Canaria. Leeds, Manchester, NewCastle and Belfast are the cities chosen for this particular project which will offer one daily low cost flight from each city to Gran Canaria, increasing the actual air traffic between Gran Canaria and the UK in almost 10%. In adition to this the Tourist Board has also made another agreement with 'Nowegian Air' which will offer low cost flights from Oslo to Gran Canaria. This new service is supposed to start in winter this year. How you like that ?!?! Kinda cool i think. That'll give our tourism-based economy a little push. :D

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