Category: #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis
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The Canary Guide ‘Día de Canarias’ #WeekendTips 27-30 May 2022
May, 2022
It’s the last weekend of May and also a festive ‘puente’ long weekend. The...
Read MoreGran Canaria Weather: Some grey skies, clearing into the weekend, but a little rain expected by Día de Canarias on Monday
May, 2022
The weather across the Canary Islands, ahead of the main Día de Canarias May 30th holiday is...
Read MoreThe Canary Guide: Foundational festivities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2022
May, 2022
This year marks the 544th Anniversary of the founding of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain’s first...
Read MoreCanarian Health service ‘Sanidad’ invests €654,700 in the new Playa de Mogán Local Clinic
May, 2022
The Primary Health Care Management of Gran Canaria, part of The Canary Islands Ministry of...
Read MorePride organisers silent as Ministry of Health investigates “probable” link to monkeypox in Maspalomas
May, 2022
Spain is the country with the highest number of Monkeypox cases in Europe, and the Ministry of...
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€51 million project to manage Canary Islands migrant reception facilities announced as referrals increase from the Canary Islands
May, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis, News
The Spanish Central Government’s Council of Ministers this Tuesday approved an initiative...
Unaccompanied migrant minors: Canary Islands Ministry of Social Rights has been appealing for help for months and to all the administrations to help take responsibility
May, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis
The Deputy Minister of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands, Gemma Martínez, said...
“An unprecedented emergency” Spain’s Ombudsman demands that the Interior Ministry not prevent the departure of migrants from the Canary Islands
Apr, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis
The Ombudsman, Francisco Fernández Marugán, tasked, as the Public Defender, to investigate...
On The Canary Route this year at least one person dies at sea, on average, every 32 hours
Apr, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis
Air Force photograph showing twelve survivors and five deceased on board a cuyaco located in...
Las Palmas judgement concludes that migrants can legally travel from the Canary Islands to the Peninsula, with just their passport and an asylum request
Apr, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis
A passport and an asylum application are sufficient documents for any migrant to legally travel...
Nearly 50 arrests as part of Gran Canaria Policia Nacional investigation against people trafficking to The Canary Islands
Apr, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis
The police raids across the South of Gran Canaria, on Friday, as part of a cross border...
Secret police operation makes 30 arrests since coordinated raids across south of Gran Canaria on Friday
Apr, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis, Crime
Reporting: Timon .:. Cover Image: Bård Ove MyhrSpanish National Police have so far detained a...
Exclusive: Spanish police raids in Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria and Arguineguín, with Europol, result in at least 15 people detained suspected of people trafficking
Apr, 2021 | #TheCanaryMigrantCrisis, investigation, Migrants Gran Canaria
There were at least 15 people detained in a combined operation between Spanish police and the EU...

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