The Workers Commissions trade union (CCOO) warns that the workers at the Meliá Sol Lanzarote hotel plan to organise a strike this Friday and Saturday. The strikes are planned to take place this Friday (9am – 11am and 4pm – 6pm) and on Saturday (1pm – 3pm and 8pm – 10pm.) In a press release, […]
Your holiday property is your pride and joy; it is the fruits of your hard work that has allowed you to purchase a home away from home. But what happens to your property while you’re away? That where Nils Janssen and First Class Villa Services come in. It’s a concern that lingers in the minds […]
Playa Blanca will once again host the Handbike International Lanzarote race this March, with two races of different distances to take place on the 7th and 8th. The latest edition of the Handbike International Lanzarote returns to Playa Blanca next month, on March 7th & 8th. This year, for the first time ever the event […]
The Open Mall in Arrecife will be extended with more car parking, new fashion, home and services shops, restaurants and open-air cinemas, mini-golf, a wind tunnel and go-karts. The extension will cover the space previously occupied by the Hiperdino supermarket on C/Pérez Galdos, next to Valterra’s Mercadona. 426 more parking spaces will be created, along […]
The body of José Esteban Acuña Fernández, who went missing on Monday while gathering seafood, was discovered yesterday near Caletón Blanco on the Haría coast. The discovery, made by the victim´s brother, brings an end to a five-day search that extended as far as Fuerteventura. Emergency services believe the body may have been temporarily trapped […]
Yesterday morning, a woman was taken to the Dr Jose Molina Orosa hospital after being run over in the Titerroy neighbourhood of Arrecife. At approximately 8:20am yesterday morning, emergency services were called to calle Hermanos Álvarez Quintero, in the Titerroy neighbourhood of Arrecife, after reports that a woman had been knocked down by a car. […]
Hotels on Lanzarote generated 87 million euros more in 2024 compared to the previous year, totalling 772.8 million. According to data provided by ISTAC (Canary Islands Statistics Institute), the number of overnight stays rose by 300,000 compared to 2024, a total of 12.6 million. Hotel room occupancy increased from 84.9% in 2023 to 85.9% in […]
Three days of searching has failed to locate a man, who disappeared along the coast of Orzola while gathering seafood. Juan Acuña, aged 61, disappeared on Monday evening after setting out to hunt seafood on a rocky shore near Playa las Cocinitas in Haría. The alarm was raised by his wife when he failed to […]
Jacobo Medina has been replaced as Vice President of Lanzarote’s Cabildo by his party, the PP. Medina had occupied the Vice President’s role since the elections of 2023 and had enjoyed a close relationship with President Oswaldo Betancort of the Coalición Canaria. Rumours of a poor relationship between Medina and the leader of the PP […]
ALDI has opened its first ever supermarket in Playa Blanca, which is now the third supermarket on Lanzarote. ALDI maintains its commitment to expansion in the Canary Islands with the supermarket chain’s first opening in the archipelago of 2025, bringing its total number of shops in the Canary Islands to 16. The company plans to […]
