The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, traveled this Thursday to the island of La Graciosa to evaluate, first-hand, the damage caused by the windstorm that has hit the island in recent hours. With gusts of up to 100 kilometers per hour, the storm has caused significant material damage, which has affected homes and other infrastructures, as well as the port itself.
Betancort, accompanied by the mayor of Teguise, Olivia Duque, and the technical director of Puertos Canarios, Francisco Acevedo, toured the area of the pontoons, which are quite deteriorated due to the strong waves suffered, and the streets of the eighth island, where numerous houses and establishments have been buried in jable.
"After the storm that has hit La Graciosa, it is time to analyze and act to manage the damage caused," said the president, who thanked the firefighters of the Security and Emergency Consortium and Emerlan for the work they are carrying out, securing buildings and removing dangerous elements in the affected areas. "It is a coordinated and effective work that has allowed us to guarantee the safety of the residents of La Graciosa and prevent major incidents," said Oswaldo Betancort.
The president also wanted to convey a message of calm. "From the Cabildo," he insisted, "we are committed to working, in collaboration with the Teguise City Council, to repair and clean up the streets of Caleta de Sebo and to address all those damages that have affected the families of the island."
Repair of damage to the port
Both the president of the Cabildo and the mayor of Teguise agreed to demand that, after the damage detected in the port's pontoons, "we demand that the Government of the Canary Islands act forcefully to repair the pontoons and other elements of the port that were already quite deteriorated, even before the storm," Betancort stressed.
"The port of La Graciosa is one of the most important and profitable in all of the Canary Islands," added the president, "and our intention is for the regional government to bring forward the execution of the trousers planned in the macro-project of this port, an intervention that will respond to a historical demand of the nautical community and all of La Graciosa," concluded Oswaldo Betancort.