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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 [...]

12 illegal immigrants arrive at La Palma

Illegal Immigrants - Canary Islands

12 illegal immigrants arrived at the island of La Palma yesterday (Tuesday, 12th March 2013). They travelled on board a ‘cayuco’ type boat and are reported to have departed 18 days ago from Bakau in Gambia. The Guardia Civil say that most of the illegal immigrants travelling on board the boat are from Gambia although [...]

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 [...]

Bad weather causes power cuts and harbour, airport and school closures

Canary Islands Storm 2013

For all the latest updates on this story, please follow us on Twitter, we’re @canariesnews or also follow us on Facebook by ‘Liking’ our Canaries News page which can be found here. You can also follow our dedicated weather updates for the Canaries on Twitter @canariesweather Updates 06/03/2013 @ 18:00 : This page is now [...]

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