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General strike threat over unemployment levels

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The Canary Islands main unions (UGT, CCOO, Intersindical Canaria, FSOC, STPA Canarias, STU, COBAS, USO) yesterday threatened to call a general strike in the Canaries in protest over the unemployment levels in the islands which has reached 34.27%, over one in three people are now without employment. The protest is said to be not only [...]

Slight unemployment rise in March 2013

Unemployment in Spain

The number of registered unemployed people in the Canary Islands has risen by 198 people in March 2013 when compared to the previous month of February 2013 representing an increase of 0.07% driven by increased unemployment in three sectors: agriculture, services and the unemployed with no previous job. Year on Year figures show that unemployment [...]

British man stabbed in Fuerteventura

El Castillo Caleta de Fuste Fuerteventura

A 64 year old British citizen has been reported to have been stabbed at around 4AM on Monday morning (1st April 2013) in the town of Caleta de Fuste (Specifically in the area of El Castillo) in the municipality of Antigua on the island of Fuerteventura. The injured man reportedly received several stab wounds to [...]

Canary Islands lose 250,000 passengers in February 2013

Airport Arrivals

Air traffic in the Canary Islands fell by 8.87% (249,672 people) in February 2013 when compared to the same month in 2012 according to data released by AENA. Operations were also down last month by 15.6% totaling 23,097 take-offs and landings which is 4,285 less than the same month last year.The highest decline in operations [...]

German tourism expected to drop in 2013

German Tourists Canary Islands

The regional government in the Canary Islands is expecting to see decrease of 3% in tourists from Germany this year (2013) which is the equivalent of 80,000 less visitors to the Canary Islands. This drop has been attributed to the cut in scheduled flights from Germany planned for this year. Air Berlin has confirmed that [...]

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