by Buzzers - 2 years ago
In total, seven boats have arrived on the island this Sunday with 270 immigrants Three of them came towards Caleton Blanco and had to be controlled by a ship, to direct them to a safer area, according to the Emergency Consortium. The Emergency Consortium are setting up tents in the Police wareho...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
The airline Binter has also stopped operating at the Tenerife south airport due to the ash emitted by the La Palma volcano, which "has worsened considerably," as the company explained this Friday through a statement. With this, Binter no longer operates the La Palma, La Gomera and Tenerife Sur airp...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
In the Aridane valley, on the western side of La Palma, lava flows devastate houses and banana plantations. This is catastrophic. Half of the area is affected ”, explains Miguel Rodríguez, one of the island's small banana producers who are still trying to assimilate the new reality. The eruption of...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma is leaving more than shocking images of how the lava engulfs the houses in the area as it passes, some in a few minutes. The magma, which has already destroyed more than 160 homes, is heading into the sea, also destroying crops and farms. Altho...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
The volcanic eruption started this afternoon, around 3.10pm, in the Cabeza de Vaca area, in the municipality of El Paso, on La Palma, just when the seismic activity on the island had reached the maximum since the beginning of the swarm a week ago. The eruption has begun in the area where e...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
Álvaro Jiménez, manager of El Poncho Restaurant, has experienced an increase in his bill of almost 200%. "The rise in electricity is making us bitter but we just have to hold on" The hospitality business, dominated mostly by small self-employed workers and one of the hardest hit by the covid, is...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
A 49-year-old woman from Arrecife has died after driving her car down the Risco de Famara at about 08.30 hours on Sunday. The Emergency Consortium, Local Police and Emerlan volunteers went to the area. They found the woman inside the car with respiratory problems and according to reports from Em...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
21,388 people are listed in the Canary Islands as job seekers in the construction sector. This number of unemployed has fallen by 10% in the last year by almost 2,400 people. In a few months, when the European funds arrive, the pull in the sector will be "brutal" and it is possible that these 21,...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
The Mirador de Haría facilities reopened on Tuesday afternoon . After several years of works and rehabilitation, this space is once again available for the enjoyment of the residents and visitors to the island. The new facilities were inaugurated at 7:00 p.m. and was attended by the mayor of Harí...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
The Government of the Canary Islands has published this Monday, in an extraordinary BOC, the decree law that brings together all the measures to contain the Covid pandemic. In addition, it includes changes in all alert levels , expanding the number of people not living together in meetings, as well...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
The constant fall in the birth rate in the Canary Islands in the last decade has been transferred to the classroom, with a significant decrease in the number of students enrolled in the first two educational stages. The public schools of the islands will start classes on Thursday with 114,558 school...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
Six out of ten unemployed people on the islands have been looking for work for more than a year. They have increased by almost 38,000 people due to covid. The difficulty in finding a job and re-engaging in the job market since the COVID broke out has triggered the number of people who have been l...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
Lanzarote drops to level 1 after experiencing a positive evolution in its epidemiological situation in recent days. This Thursday has added only nine new cases, with 149 active. The cumulative incidence on the island is 48.78 at seven days and 102.69 at 14. The Governing Council today approved th...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
A new boat has arrived on the island, the third in less than 24 hours. This time it has been to the beach of La Garita in Arrieta. It was the lifeguards who, when they saw it, have called the authorities 30 men, five women and one minor. All of them were assisted by health personnel, who had to t...
by Buzzers - 2 years ago
Lanzarote is very close to having 80% of its target population with the complete vaccination schedule against Covid, a goal that will be achieved in a few days. In addition, there are already 60.4% of the island's youth between the ages of 12 and 19 who have received the complete vaccine. Accordi...