The PP has dismissed Ángel Vázquez as chief executive of Lanzarote’s tourism centres after his son secured a permanent cleaner’s post. María Jesús Tovar takes over as the island council’s coalition partner demands accountability, while the PSOE calls for an extraordinary plenary session.
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Residents of La Cruz Santa in Los Realejos, Tenerife, have collected 6,150 signatures against a propane gas plant they deem dangerous and polluting. Despite unanimous opposition from the local council, the regional government has published the project in the Official Gazette. Neighbours question why a Canary Islands vice-president urges appeals against his own government’s decision.
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With Spain’s snap general election called for 29 November, housing has become the defining political issue of the moment. Social outrage over painful cases and a wave of protest have pushed the housing crisis to the top of the agenda, but Canary Islands governments stand accused of doing nothing.
Housing crisis in Canary Islands: a failed legislature Read More »
Housing has become the defining issue of the Canary Islands’ pre-election campaign, with mass protests in Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. Coalición Canaria has finally moved on declaring Las Palmas de Gran Canaria a stressed housing zone, while opposition parties demand urgent action ahead of a general strike on 11 November.
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The Canary Islands government has declared urgent the process to build 26 publicly promoted protected homes and 26 parking spaces in Gáldar, Gran Canaria. The €5 million development is part of a wider scheme for 126 social homes across the island, funded through EU Next Generation recovery funds.
26 new social homes fast-tracked in Gáldar, Gran Canaria Read More »
A new platform created by Canarian biologist Romén Herrera reveals that 809,115 properties in Spain are in the hands of owners with more than ten homes in the same municipality. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tops the Canary Islands ranking, where US fund Blackstone is the largest private residential owner with 506 homes.
Blackstone owns 506 homes in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Read More »
Business cartels have shaped markets for a century, from the Phoebus lightbulb pact to Spain’s rigged public contracts. We look at the CNMC’s biggest sanctions of the past decade and why underfunding leaves many cases undetected.
Spain’s business cartels and the fight for fair markets Read More »
Tenerife’s PSOE has accused the island’s government of cutting fire prevention work after Gesplan told more than 120 forestry workers their contracts will end a month early on 30 October. The party warns the move leaves planned vegetation clearance undone and the island more vulnerable as climate change extends the fire risk season.
PSOE warns Tenerife fire prevention cuts risk lives Read More »
A truck with no driver on board rolled down a sloping street in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this Friday morning and smashed into the Air Force gate on Paseo de Chil. Police say the handbrake had not been properly applied, and the incident caused only material damage.
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More than a hundred people attended Lanzarote’s fourth Citizen Assembly for the Right to Housing in Arrecife, paying tribute to Mari Carmen, the 87-year-old woman evicted in September who died this week. The assembly agreed to support families facing eviction and called for urgent action from authorities.
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