Goodview of the North It currently has a population of 4,766 residents, 255 fewer than in 1960. This town in the Low Island gave shelter to more than five thousand neighbors between 1986 and 2012. The population loss is especially important in isolated rural hamlets such as Teno Alto, Masca, Los Carrizales, El Palmar or Las Portelas, which from 1996 to 2022 have lost between 19.7 and 53.48% of their population. To stop and reverse this trend, the Councilor for Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports, Angeles Gonzalez (CC)and the regional deputy Rosa Davila (CC) have launched a proposal: to implement cycles of Vocational Training (VT) that help generate new employment opportunities and prevent the exodus of young people in search of training and work.
El Palmar it had 536 inhabitants in 1996 and now there are just 392, a reduction of almost 27%. In The Gates, in the same period, it has gone from 365 to 295 residents, almost a 20% population decrease. In chew, an icon of tourism, barely 93 people live today. Almost 24% less than in 1996. In The Carrizales 43 people lived in 1996, now there are 23. In 25 years this village has lost 53.48% of its inhabitants. in Teno Alto 96 people lived in 1996 and now there are only 57, 40.6% less.
Faced with this worrying reality, which even invites us to think about the risk of a near total depopulation, Ángeles González and the Secretary of Organization of the Tenerife nationalists, Rosa Davilademand that the Government of the Canary Islands «urgently implement Vocational Training (FP) modules at Buenavista High Schoola very necessary action to combat the unemployment rates that exist in the municipality and depopulation ».
CC proposes that studies on ecological agriculture, renewable energies or sustainable tourism be taught
Gonzalez recalls that Currently Buenavista It does not have “any higher education linked to vocational training, and we consider that it is very necessary so that our young people have more possibilities of joining the labor market, which is increasingly demanding.” His proposal focuses on higher degrees “that have enough professional opportunities due to the demand of the working marketsuch as courses linked to sustainable tourism, organic farming or renewable energy.
Dávila announces that he will take the Parliament of the Canary Islands this demand of the municipality, to which others are added such as «the need for the canarian government activate employment plans to revitalize the region». And remember that “according to INE data, the rate of people between 16 and 64 years old, who reside in the municipality and have less than the third and fourth education of the Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) is 35%. The number of unemployed in December 2021 in Buenavista del Norte was, according to the Obecan, 487 people, 24.59 percent of the population that is of working age.
