The Government Group of Arrecife wants to make an "official recognition" and assign their names to public spaces in the city for the contribution of several former mayors, now deceased, to the development and progress of the city. These are José María Espino, Enrique Pérez, Cándido Reguera, Juan Betancort, Antonio Cabrera Barrera and Ginés de la Hoz
Yonathan de León has announced that the 'Commission of Honors and Distinctions' of this City Council will be convened so that its members agree to submit these "official recognitions and the designated places" to the plenary session.
For the first capital city mayor, the citizens of Arrecife in this 21st century will have in the municipality "places identified with the names of these people who are linked to the history of our capital and who, from their contributions, as public officials, are part of the progress that Arrecife symbolizes today."
For his part, the first deputy mayor, Echedey Eugenio, stressed that "as a city we have a debt to all those who have participated in the development of the city."
"As a city we have a debt to all those who have participated in its development."
The City Council recalls that, in March of last year, the municipal plenary agreed to update the Regulations of Honors and Distinctions, in force since 2013, for the modification of its articles that serve as support for the performance of the functions of the secretariat and protocol technicians in order to incorporate honors files, as well as those that are paid to the identifying elements of the municipality, and "the obligations and rights inherent to the fact of belonging, or having belonged", to the Municipal Corporation.
With the prior and mandatory agreement of the members of this Honors Commission, "the public spaces of the city (streets, avenues, parks, squares, etc.) that may bear the name of prominent former mayors, now deceased, who have contributed to the development and progress of the city in the last half century" will be determined.
The Government group will propose to this 'Commission of Honors and Distinctions', for its subsequent submission to the plenary session, to recognize with public spaces in Arrecife the figures of former mayors such as Ginés de la Hoz (creator of the city's first urban plan), Antonio Cabrera Barrera (parliamentarian and first democratic mayor of Arrecife), Juan Betancort Borges (fishing industrialist), Cándido Reguera (former national deputy and former mayor), Enrique Pérez Parrilla, high school teacher, former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and former mayor of this city), and José María Espino, teacher and first mayor who has remained, until now, for three consecutive terms in the democratic stage as mayor of Arrecife, between 1983 and 1995, and who died on September 14.
Similarly, in this proposal that will be submitted to the Commission of Honors and Distinctions, and coinciding with the 225th anniversary of the creation and foundation of Arrecife, the Government group proposes that Lorenzo Cabrera López, the first elected mayor of Puerto del Arrecife (1799), and who was re-elected in the years 1804, 1809 and 1813, be officially recognized with a public place.
