Entries by Gazette Life

Antigen tests still not accepted

England’s lockdown ended at 12.01 this morning, as much of the country entered the new tier system. Fortunately for Lanzarote’s tourist sector, the UK government will still permit travel for holidays abroad from all tiers.

02/12/2020 by

Monthly News Roundup

Monthly local news roundup! A rundown of everything that has happened during the past month that you need to know; written in a brief and easy to understand format.

01/12/2020 by

Floods and rainbows

Heavy rains once again took Lanzarote by surprise yesterday , rendering some roads unpassable and flooding several streets in the capital Arrecife.

01/12/2020 by

Remembering the Cruz del Mar

This weekend saw the 42nd anniversary of the Cruz del Mar massacre, when seven fishermen from the fishing barrio of Valterra were murdered on their fishing boat by unidentified assailants. Just like every year, the dead were honoured with a floral wreath and a service attended by families of the victims, Arrecife Mayor Astrid Pérez and other representatives of Arrecife Ayuntamiento.

30/11/2020 by

Stable progress

Lanzarote currently has 59 active cases of coronavirus, exactly the same number as last Sunday, and ten fewer than it started the month with.

29/11/2020 by

Say Cheese!

Goat’s cheese is one of Lanzarote’s finest products. Shaun Addison and Sabrina Suppers visited the Queseria El Faro near Teguise to find out more.

28/11/2020 by

Troubled waters

Lanzarote’s Water Consortium has fined the island’s water supplier, Canal Gestión, for three beaches of contract, and the island’s water minister has said that the Cabildo is “very worried” that Canal is “starting to be a problem rather than a solution.”

28/11/2020 by

Reduced to Tiers

Tourism from England is still on course to start up again when the current lockdown ends on December 2nd, after the British government confirmed that people in all three tiers were permitted to travel to airports.

27/11/2020 by