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Fire destroys premises at Yumbo Centre in Gran Canaria

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Up to seven premises at the Yumbo shopping centre in Playa del Ingles in Gran Canaria have been destroyed by a fire that broke out in one of the venues in a fire that started at 08:20 this morning (Monday, 6th May 2013). No one has been injured in the blaze. The cause of the [...]

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 [...]

Gran Canaria and Tenerife South airports to charge for baggage trolleys

Airport Trolley

Gran Canaria and Tenerife South airports are to follow Barajas Airport which has begun installing machines to charge passengers one euro for the use of luggage carts as part of an initiative which AENA hopes will save €3.2 million per year. AENA claims it has “no date” for the implementation of the payment for the [...]

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 [...]

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