Entries by Gazette Life

Playa Blanca road plan

The PP’s candidate for the Cabildo presidency, Jacobo Medina, has supported the idea of widening the main road from Yaiza to Playa Blanca to a dual carriageway.

RIP Ana María

Ana Maria Emmel, one of Lanzarote’s longest-serving tourist guides – a widely-respected professional and a well-loved colleague, died on Monday at the age of 67.

Suicide prevented

Local police officers from Teguise and Haría managed to prevent a woman from taking her own life by driving off the Famara cliff on Monday evening.

No fish farms

Cabildo President María Dolores Corujo has reiterated that “no more fish farms will be permitted on Lanzarote”.

Bank shortage

The Canaries is the Spanish region with the fewest bank offices per person, according to figures from the Bank of Spain.