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La Gomera landslide caught on camera, rescue workers are searching for anyone injured
A La Gomera landslide caused by the massive collapse of part of a cliff this Saturday afternoon, was captured on video on the west coast of the island of La Gomera, in Valle Gran Rey. Several people in the vicinity witnessed the rockfall. Images show a large vertical cliff face suddenly collapsing into the sea, raining debris onto a coastal path, used to access Argaga beach, known as Las Arenas beach, where caravans and other vehicles often park, causing several cars to completely disappear...
Spain lays out tactics for dealing with the migration crisis in Canary Islands, President appeals for everyone to fight racism and xenophobia
Spain's Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function, Carolina Darias, announced this Friday, during a press conference alongside the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, that the Government of Spain will reinforce immigration policy in the Canary Islands with greater resources and vigilance to deal with the migration crisis, with plans to designate transfer of land for usage in the processing of those that arrive and increased diplomacy with countries from which...
Up to 800 migrants will be transferred to military camp in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The Spanish Army have constructed a transit camp at their old Barranco Seco facility, ready to start receiving migrants currently crowded onto the harbour pier in the port of Arguineguín. The army's Twitter account was used to announce that the Canary Islands XVI Brigade has erected 23 tents (nine more than those available in Arguineguín) at the facilities assigned to the Ministry of the Interior, to which, once completed a total of up to 800 migrants will be transferred and accommodated and...
Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria car crash driver six times over the limit
A 69-year-old Irish woman collided with three vehicles yesterday while she was trying to leave a parking space in the tourist resort town of Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria. A breathalyser test revealed she was six times over the alcohol limit allowed, and so she was arrested on road safety charges. The events occurred, directly outside The Devil's Pub, just before 10:30am when, it is thought, the driver was trying to leave a parking space located on the main street through the town Avenida Tomás...
Negative PCR test result will be required within 72 hours prior to entering Spain as of November 23, when travelling from risk zones
negative PCR test result required for travel to Spain as of November 23
British tourists are reportedly postponing holidays booked to The Canary Islands until summer 2021
British tourists are reportedly postponing holidays booked to The Canary Islands until the summer of 2021, instead of trying to visit this winter, due travel restrictions imposed by the British Government banning holidays from England until at least December 2, say British travel agencies, although some may well try for last minute deals before Christmas. The Minister of Tourism for the Canary Islands Government, Yaiza Castilla, met yesterday, via video link, with the Association of British...
The coasts of The Canary Islands receive more than 2,500 migrants in 3 days
This Monday it is being reported that around 2,500 migrants have arrived since Friday, on the coasts of The Canary Islands, and that the make shift camp on the Arguineguín dock has once again overflowed with new arrivals on the south of Gran Canaria. Nearly 500 migrants have arrived just this Monday morning. The highest number to arrive in one weekend since 2006, numbering around 2,000 arrived on Saturday and Sunday, in 45 boats, with comparisons continuing to be made to the record breaking...
Canary Islands Hurricane? No. Some rain and wind (maybe) as gathering Atlantic storm passes to the northwest of the islands
The United States' National Hurricane Center (NHC) have been monitoring the formation of a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic, possibly a gathering Atlantic storm which some commentators fear could affect the Archipelago . If the wet weather currently travelling southwest of the Azores does continue to organise then either a tropical or sub-tropical storm is expected to form, which would be officially named Theta. The Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AMET) has also said that the cyclonic wet...
Warm weather and sunshine do not stop COVID-19 from spreading, we must be sensible this winter season
Warm weather and sunshine have little effect on stopping the spread of Covid-19. The Canary Islands archipelago as a whole remains the Spanish region with the lowest accumulated incidence of Covid-19 over the last 14 days, writes Yanira Martin in Spanish language daily LaProvincia, with 76.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, as well as the lowest over the last seven days, with 43.3 per 100,000. While the spread of the virus has skyrocketed throughout the rest of Spain and other European...
Hotels on Gran Canaria, and elsewhere, are looking to innovative reservations models to survive the crisis
Despite the coronavirus crisis and the huge reduction in tourism globally, online entrepreneurs and tourism professionals have been forced to innovate, adopting various new opportunities to try to ensure they can simply stay in business, and even prosper, despite the unprecedented economic fallout. Some hotels on Gran Canaria have moved away from 2-night minimums and overnight stays to offer themselves to different types of customer. ByHours is a hotel booking site like most you will have...
