Category : Islands

A Missing Scottish Tourist in Lanzarote has Died

Scotsman Robert Campbell , known as Rab , has been found dead , missing for a week while on holiday in Lanzarote .According to the Anglo-Saxon Daily Record , Campbell was scheduled to take a flight back to Scotland on May 11th, along with a friend...

Woman Dead & Passenger in Critical Condition

One woman has died and another remains in serious condition after falling from a height of 20 meters with a buggy, through the Roferos area, between Teseguite and Guatiza. The 45-year-old woman who remains in critical condition has a head injury and...

Tinajo Drug Raid

The police seized 205 marijuana plants in Tinajo at dawn on April 21st . The plantation was detected when the police went to a house following an alarm notice in Lanzarote.According to the police, a 63-year-old man with no criminal record was being i...

Lanzarote Now Has More Than 7,000 Holiday Homes

Lanzarote has 7,226 holiday homes distributed around the entire island. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) published by the Lanzarote Data Centre, these accommodations are divided into a total of 33,364 beds, which mean...

Lanzarote March Hotel Occupancy Highest in Spain

91.7 % of the total hotel rooms available in Lanzarote in March were occupied. This is the highest hotel occupancy by room in the entire country. The archipelago as a whole registered in March the highest hotel occupancy by places offered in Spain, 7...

Grant Awarded for New LZ5 Motorway

The Ministry of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands has awarded this Wednesday to the Grusamar-GIPIC-HSIA joint venture the contract for the drafting of the project for the layout and construction of the new highway between the Lanza...

Pedro Almodóvar Enjoys a Few Days in Lanzarote

The film director, screenwriter and producer, Pedro Almodóvar, is enjoying a few days off in Lanzarote, an island that he has visited numerous times and where in 2008 he filmed several scenes for his film "Los abrazos rotos" with Penélope Cruz and Lu...

Inflation Drops to 4.6% in the Canary Islands, Still the Highest in Spain

Inflation in Spain moderated to 3.3% year-on-year in March, 2.7 points below the February rate, due to the drop in electricity and fuel prices compared to the strong increases registered in March 2022 , after the start of the war in Ukraine, and the...

Nearly 2,300 Patients Waiting For Treatment in Lanzarote

A total of 2,297 people were waiting to be treated by some medical specialty at the José Molina Orota Hospital in Lanzarote as of December 2022. The most recent data published by the Canary Islands Health Service reveal considerable differences, depe...

Lanzarote Amazing Tourist Figures for the First Two Months of 2023

Lanzarote has received 48.6% more tourists than a year ago. In the first two months of 2023 alone, 504,579 travellers arrived on the island. As reported by the Lanzarote Data Center, through the data collected by the Canarian Institute of Statistic...

Tourist Apartments in Lanzarote Have the Highest Rates in the Canary Islands at Easter

With an average price of 130 euros per night , tourist apartments in Lanzarote have the highest rates in the entire archipelago for Easter. This is confirmed by the Holidu vacation rental and apartment portal , which analyzed prices and occupancy in...

Public Works Will Begin Work on the Playa Honda Underpass in Summer

The Government of the Canary Islands foresees that the works of the underground passage in Playa Honda begin at the beginning of summer. The Ministry of Public Works , Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands has awarded the co...

These Temperatures Are Not Typical For The Islands

Lanzarote leaves an atypical end of March with temperatures that exceed 34 degrees. According to data from the State Meteorological Agency and the Canary Weather website, Tías and San Bartolomé have registered the highest temperatures on the island,...

Belgian Surfer Resident on Lanzarote Dies in Famara

The Security and Emergency Coordination Center has reported the death this Wednesday of a surfer in Famara. The 59-year-old man was a resident of Lanzarote and a Belgian national.The lifeguards found the floating body of the athlete, next to his brok...

Find "Cleo", a Cockatoo Lost in Tinguatón

A reader has contacted La Voz de Lanzarote asking for help to find "Cleo", a cockatoo lost since March 19th in the Tinguatón area.As the reader explains, the bird "has been with us for 24 years, it's part of my family." "It is very tame, it does not...