SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 4. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands, at the proposal of its president, Ángel Víctor Torres, has granted in its Council session this Thursday, held at the headquarters of the Government Presidency in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, to award 14 Canary Islands Gold Medals in 2023.
Specifically, they will be delivered at the official act of ‘Canary Islands Day’, on May 30, at the Auditorio de Tenerife, together with the Canary Islands Awards of this year, which fell to the Spanish Association against Cancer in the Canary Islands, in the modality Altruistic and Solidarity Actions; in Pepe Alemán, in Communication, and in the Coordinator of NGOs for the Development of the Canary Islands, in the International section.
Thus, the distinctions with the Gold Medal of the Canary Islands are for the newspaper ‘Canarias 7’, which has already celebrated its 40th anniversary; the gymnast from Tenerife Ana Bautista, Spain’s first official gold medalist in this discipline; the Fundación Canaria Doctor Manuel Morales de La Palma for its work in favor of the medical training of numerous young Canarians; the professor of Biology and professor of Zoology Luis Herrera, from La Gomera; the San Roque de Gran Canaria hospitals, which turned 100 in 2020; the pediatrician María Teresa Cotonat, who has been serving Valverde since 2020; the female and male murgas deans of the carnival in the case of Ni Fú Ni Fá (Tenerife), Las Revoltosas (Lanzarote) and the Afilarmónica Nietos de Kika, from Gran Canaria; the journalist María Luisa Arozarena, a reference in journalism in the Canary Islands and who worked for 24 years in RNE on the islands; the Felo Monzón Institute (Gran Canaria), a benchmark for learning in society, specifically for the children of workers, thanks to a system of scholarships; the writer Alexis Ravelo from Gran Canaria posthumously; Rebeca Rodríguez, patron of the Salvamar Tenerife, one of the three rapid intervention boats that Salvamento Marítimo has in Fuerteventura and the Parranda Marinera Los Buches, a group considered the maximum expression of the popular carnival of the archipelago and the most vivid testimony of the ties of the men and women of Arrecife with the sea;
