Canary islands News

The archipelago leads the occupation with more than 72% and is the second destination to attract non-resident tourism with 25.5%

Vehicle rental companies will recover in 2023 to levels they saw prior to the pandemic. This year they registered 85% of the revenue made in 2019 according to the forecasts of the National Business Association of Rental Vehicles.

Santa Claus will tour Arona in a two-story bus specially prepared and decorated with Christmas motifs, where the boys and girls of the municipality will be able to talk to him, take photos and deliver their Christmas wish cards.

The report, released May 16, suggests that the current rate of inflation in Spain is roughly equal to the average across the EU but that it will fall to the lowest in the bloc by 2023.

These will be destroyed if they are not claimed within a period of between five and six months after their transfer to the municipal vehicle depot.

Two municipal plots in San Miguel have become uncontrolled landfills, according to the local Socialist Party.

The Minister of Health says that hospital pressure is “slightly decreasing”

The Canary Islands received 1.12 million foreign tourists in March, which meant exceeding the barrier of one million tourists in one month for the first time since the covid-19 pandemic began.

The Guardia Civil have arrested a middle-aged woman at Tenerife Sur airport, whose luggage contained 1.8 kilos of heroin hidden in two cereal boxes.

Members of the San Miguel Fire Station went to the Hotel Vulcano after an alert indicated “there was a fire in the spa area and the warehouse,”.

The number of unemployed in the Canary Islands in April stood at 198,981, a 1.37% decrease compared to the previous month.

Yes a rescue was carried out in Santa Cruz, where a vehicle was suspended over the sea, running the risk of falling, something that fortunately was avoided.

The Cabildo de Tenerife has approved the contract for the second phase of the project to improve Avenida del Emigrante, in the centre of Playa de San Juan.

All other Islands stay the same.

The Civil Guard, in collaboration with the Local Police of Gran Canaria, have arrested a man for the illegal possession of poisonous and dangerous animals, the largest on record in Europe

The laser location system that the European Space Agency (ESA) has installed at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife is in the testing phase and starting in the summer it will routinely monitor satellites every day to correct their positions.

The Guardia Civil has arrested five people one in Tenerife accused of hacking into a cryptocurrency custody company and stealing six million euros from thousands of investors.

The Spanish Government has modified the health requirements for entry into Spain for persons over 12 and under 18 years of age from countries outside the European Union or the Schengen area, where access to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for this age group is difficult or not yet possible.

The monument to Franco in Santa Cruz is closer to being removed, although not without controversy. Neither the lawsuit filed by the lawyer Eduardo Ranz five years ago for not complying with the Law of Historical Memory passed in 2007, nor a convincing study by the University of La Laguna or the petitions of historical memory associations have been enough for the sculpture, inaugurated in 1966 in honour of the caudillo, to be removed.

The Council of Santa Cruz has released the new official poster for Carnival 2022. Under the title ‘Carnival 2222'

Enter the world of more than 40 themed light installations including a 40-meter-long dragon, panda and flamingo gardens, a deer forest, underwater world, and many other fairy-tale creatures.

Pictures of the 12 most wanted fugitives in the United Kingdom, that could be in the Canary Islands have been released.

Councillor Antolín Bueno, is grateful for the unanimous support and welcomes the fact that pets will soon be able to travel with their owners on buses, trams and taxis. The process will be phased in gradually over 2022 to bring the regulations into line. Bueno explains: “We have reached an agreement to change the regulations of Titsa and Metrotenerife over the course of this year so that animals can travel with the necessary measures to guarantee the safety and coexistence of users”

Bodies, the famous exhibition that brings together preserved and dissected bodies, lands for the first time in the Canary Islands, on the island of Tenerife. The travelling presentation, which was opened to the public in the United States in 2005, aims to show the structure of the human system in a real way.

The Canary Islands SCS have asked the Canarian Police to investigate the alleged existence of threats and intimidation against 6,339 nurses and auxiliary staff who have vaccinated children under the age of 12 against COVID-19 from December 2021.

The change in alert level on both islands will come into force at 00:00 on Saturday, January 22.

While the curve is still rising, the increase in the cumulative incidence has gone from 90% weekly growth during the Christmas holidays to 17% on Friday

The Government of the Canary Islands, through the General Directorate of Security and Emergencies, has declared a wind alert situation in La Gomera, El Hierro and Tenerife from 00:00 this Sunday. This decision is made taking into account the information provided by the State Meteorological Agency and other available sources, and in application of the Canary Islands Specific Emergency Plan for Risks of Adverse Meteorological Phenomena (PEFMA).

The Tenerife metropolitan area tram will suspend the night service that Line 1 offered from 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., due to restrictions due to the pandemic.

A welcome return

The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, has reported this Thursday that all the islands remain at the levels due to the risk of coronavirus as last week.

The Canary Islands have registered 5,369 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so the total number of accumulated cases in the Islands since the start of the pandemic is already 182,826 with 69,922 active, of which 65 are admitted to the ICU and 456 remain hospitalized.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has reported that a yellow warning will be applicable from tomorrow Sunday, starting at 00.00 covering the whole of the island and lasting until midnight. This is for strong winds in the metropolitan area of 75km/h which could also possibly affect Tacoronte, Santa Ursula and will also extend to the La Orotava Valley.

The first Canarian baby of 2022 is a girl born in Tenerife at 12:48 am

Two boats rescued with 90 migrants in the waters of Lanzarote

438 people are hospitalized for covid, 62 of them in critical units

The National Police have arrested two Romanians, a man and a woman, aged 35 and 29, for committing fraud and theft in shopping centres in the South of Tenerife

The volume of investment destined to the reform and construction of new hotels will exceed 2,850 million euros during 2022, according to the H Refcon 2021 report published by Colliers, which adds that the Canary Islands leads the investment made in 2021 with 195 million and 45% of the total of the country.

The Canary Islands have registered 2,053 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, so the total accumulated cases in the islands now rises to 120,209 with 16,642 active, of which 59 are admitted to the ICU and 291 remain hospitalized. Also, in the last hours the death of four people in the Canary Islands has been reported.