The president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote, José Valle, spoke this Friday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to show his anger with the president of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, Beatriz Calzada.
Valle explained on the morning radio show Buenos días, Lanzarote that the intention of the Chamber of Commerce is to promote an educational area in the plots adjacent to the National Police station of Arrecife and Agramar.
Among them, the representative of the island's businessmen highlighted that the institution showed the Port Authority its intention to create a museum in front of the Arrecife Police Station, in an initiative developed together with the Cabildo of Lanzarote. "We are already finishing the basic project to present it," he indicated, with the aim of promoting "a training ecosystem" and turning the first coastal line into "a friendly city" with the sea.
José Valle explained that he presented the museum project on that plot to Beatriz Calzada. "Now it turns out that the Cabildo receives a letter withdrawing" from the project, "that it could no longer be done and that a gas station is underway," he added. "I am angry because I spoke personally and they told me 'present a project'. It cannot be that we present a project and the next day it has not been taken into consideration," Valle indicated.
For the moment, the Chamber of Commerce is "working to see how we can do it, we are also going to transfer it to the Government of the Canary Islands." "It is a site that may have an interest for the citizens and that must be taken into account, because a port authority cannot come to tell us what we have to do in our city," Valle defended.
"Gas stations can be set up in many places, but creating a beautiful environment towards the city and that is educational," Valle defended. In this sense, he added that "if we do it well" the island will be able to have an educational area with platforms like in Valencia or Barcelona. "Cities have to be oriented towards the sea and that is a great value," he continued.
Thus, during his speech he indicated that now "it is time to fight" to be able to establish this training area. And even, he plans to bring the Nursing School and the Tourism School or another degree to the capital of Lanzarote.
