One health record for every island: the Canarian health service commits €37.2 million to Magec HCE
A patient from La Gomera is treated in Tenerife and goes home. Their family doctor sees them a week later. How likely is it that the results from the other hospital are at hand, instantly, without a phone call? In the Canary Islands the answer still depends on which computer system each centre uses. On […]
The new Fdcan is official: up to €1.626 billion over ten years, half for infrastructure and public housing
A fund that renews every ten years can sound like a specialist’s subject, until you look at what it has paid for: roads, schools, treatment plants, health centres in towns across all eight islands. On Monday 19 October the Canarian cabinet approved the regulation of the new Canary Islands Development Fund, the Fdcan, which takes […]
Tide pools, fishing villages and rights of way: what is in the Canary Islands’ draft coastal law
Anyone who has spent a summer in the charcos of La Palma, Tenerife or Gran Canaria knows these volcanic rock pools are neither beach nor swimming pool, and the law has not always known what to do with them. That is one reason why, on Friday 16 October, the Canary Islands government presented the draft […]
Rent update index hits 2.54%, its highest ever: what it means if you live in the Canaries
On Wednesday 14 October Spain’s statistics office, the INE, published a number many tenants would rather not have seen: 2.54%. It is the reference index for updating rents for September, and since it was created in November 2024 it has never been this high. On its own the move looks small. In August it stood […]
Three months to leave USDT: what the EU’s markets regulator actually decided on stablecoins
Anyone holding Tether on a European exchange now has a date to watch. On 8 October ESMA, the EU’s securities and markets authority, published an opinion addressed to national regulators: authorised crypto platforms must stop offering services around stablecoins that don’t comply with MiCA, the bloc’s crypto-asset regulation. Customer positions should be resolved “as soon […]
Up at six, home at ten: the potato farmers rewriting who owns the farm
Alexis González leaves home at six in the morning and, nearly every day of the year, gets back around ten at night. That is how Canarias7 describes him in a profile published on 18 October. He is 37, like his wife Yanira Mendoza, and together they run Agrícolas GM: more than 45 hectares between Moya […]
Fifteen Days to Use Your Voucher: The Canary Islands’ Appliance Renewal Plan Is Back
The number that matters most in this story is a small one: fifteen. That is how many days each Plan Renove appliance voucher stays valid in the Canary Islands, counted from the moment the code is generated, not from when you walk into the shop. A new batch goes live on Monday 19 October through […]
Your Phone Will Buzz Three Times on Thursday: What the ES-Alert Test Means in Tenerife
Picture yourself driving along the TF-82 on Thursday morning when your phone lets out a shriek you never asked for. An emergency message fills the screen. On 22 October that will happen to a lot of people in Tenerife, and it is far better to know in advance. The Canarian government will test the ES-Alert […]
From Arrecife to Calpe: a Canarian crew racing from today for Spain’s cruiser title
The Spanish Cruiser Championship has a rule that levels everything: everyone sails the same boat. It is a Tom 28, a one-design, so whoever wins does it with tactics and crew work, not a faster hull. From today, 16 October, to Sunday the 18th, 18 of them will be on the water in Calpe bay, […]
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: four weeks to have your say on the “tensioned zone”
The file exists, the calendar does too, and now comes a step that rarely gets noticed: public consultation. From 15 October until Thursday 12 November, the Canary Housing Institute (ICAVI) is making the file available to everyone, to declare the whole municipality of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria a “Tensioned Residential Market Zone”. The request […]