Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The spokesman for the Government of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, has announced the twelve people and entities that have been chosen to receive the Gold Medals of the autonomous community in 2023, among which is the writer from Gran Canaria recently deceased Alexis Ravelo.
The Gold Medal is the most important distinction awarded by the Canarian Government, recalled Julio Pérez, who added that this year’s edition will also receive it from the newspaper and the workers of Canarias 7, as well as the gymnast from Tenerife Ana Bautista, and the Fundación Canaria Doctor Manuel Morales, from La Palma.
The 2023 Canary Islands Gold Medal is also the Biology professor Luis Herrera Mesa, a native of La Gomera, and the company that manages the San Roque hospitals in Gran Canaria, as well as the doctor from the Canary Islands Health Service, María Teresa Cotonat, known as the pediatrician of El Hierro.
The Ni Fu Ni Fa Philharmonic, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife; the murga Las Revoltosas, from Lanzarote; and the Los Nietos de Kika Afilarmónica, in Gran Canaria, share the Gold Medal, which will also be received by journalist from Tenerife María Luisa Arozarena, who was director of Radio Nacional de España in the Canary Islands for fourteen years.
Rebeca Rodríguez Francés, a native of Fuerteventura and patron of the Maritime Rescue vessel Salvamar Tenerife; the Felo Monzón Secondary School, in Gran Canaria, and La Parranda Marinera Los Buches, in Lanzarote, complete the 2023 awards. EFE