Octavio Caraballo from Lanzarote will be the new general director of Organic Coordination and Strategic Projects of the Government of the Canary Islands. Born in the city of Arrecife, he studied Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Octavio Caraballo has worked in several media outlets such as La Provincia, La Voz de Lanzarote, Ideapress, El Correo de Fuerteventura, among others. Between 2000 and 2007 and from 2019 to 2023 he has been press chief of the Canarian Coalition, also responsible for communication and parliamentary advisor in the Senate between 2000 and 2007 and between 2019 and 2023.
The new General Director has also been director of communication in the City Councils of Arrecife (Lanzarote) and La Oliva (Fuerteventura). Between 2007 and 2009 he was press chief of the president of the Government of the Canary Islands. He has been a parliamentary advisor in the Congress of Deputies between 2012 and 2015, chief of staff and director of the Cabinet of the president of the Canary Islands between 2015 and 2019.
The name of the Lanzarote native is part of the work team announced this Monday by the new president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, after being approved at the first meeting of the Government Council of the Canary Islands, held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the assistance of all the ministers of the Executive except the heads of the Presidency, Nieves Lady Barreto; of Territorial Policy, Manuel Miranda; and of Ecological Transition, Mariano Hernández Zapata, displaced to La Palma due to the forest fire declared on that island.
In an informative appearance, the president of the Canary Islands explained that all the appointments of new positions in the Government will be completed in the coming weeks. However, priority has been given to the composition of the Ministries of Finance, Health and Education due to their importance in developing the most necessary actions in the shortest period of time.
For his part, the vice president and Minister of Economy, Industry, Commerce and Self-Employed, Manuel Domínguez, reported on the first measures that the Government will adopt in a tax relief plan for families that "includes the 99% bonus of the donation and inheritance tax, reducing the fuel tax in the Green Islands and a reduction in the IGIC that the government team is already working on."
Fernando Clavijo also reported on the sending of a letter to the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, so that the Government of Spain develops a new modification of the General Law of Subsidies, through a Royal Decree, to eliminate the difficulties of access to public aid for the transport of goods to the Canary Islands, since the legislative changes did not take into account its great impact on the compensation system for maritime and air transport of goods originating or destined for the islands. This claim of the Government joins the same demand raised by the organizations Asinca, Asocan, Asprocan and Fedex, which have already sent the Minister of Transport a new proposal for the modification of the General Law of Subsidies.
End of the fishing agreement
The end of the fishing agreement between Morocco and the European Union, which ended this Monday, was also the subject of analysis by the president of the Canary Islands, who demanded not only compensatory measures for the affected Canarian fishermen, mainly in Lanzarote, and reiterated the demand that the autonomous community participate without intermediaries in the bilateral meetings between the kingdoms of Spain and Morocco.
Finally, the Government Council of the Canary Islands also addressed the start of the next 2023-2024 school year, which on the islands is scheduled to start on September 11 with an event at the school in the municipality of Moya, on the island of Gran Canaria, reported the Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, Poli Suárez.
