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Council begins post office box service in Es Cap
The Formentera Island Council presently announces the start of post office box services for inhabitants of the Es Cap area of the island. In view of the positive reception of post office boxes in La Mola and of the fact that Es Cap residents also face the same difficulty as their neighbours in La Mola – neither locality has a mail delivery service available and residents of Es Cap are required to pick up any correspondence ...
Supreme Court to hear Formentera Council request for annulment of historic centre ruling
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the Council of Formentera regarding a 6 February 2014 sentence of the Balearic Island Superior Court of Justice (TSJIB). The ruling by the court had nullified demarcations of historic centre in the towns of Sant Francesc, Sant Ferran and El Pilar de La Mola. More info here
New REB regulations to affect waste transfer between Formentera and Eivissa
The Formentera Council, and councilor of the Economy and Presidential Cabinet Bartomeu Escandell, attended this week a meeting of the Fórum Balears Competitiva at the Consolat de Mar of Palma de Mallorca. The encounter – the fifth of its kind – served to gather suggestions for the Madrid central government in its upcoming revision of the REB. Formentera's submission raises three points with reference to the new REB: transpor...
Formentera Council and Institut Balear de la Dona sign pact to prevent domestic abuse
The Institut Balear de la Dona, a local association established to fight for the rights and interests of women, together with the Formentera Island Council have this morning lent their signatures to an important joint accord. Acting as representatives of their respective institutions were Dolores Fernández Tamargo, councilor of Social Welfare, Youth Services and Equality of the Formentera Council, and Isabel Llinàs, director o...
Local police confiscate drugs ready to be sold on the street
In the late hours of Friday evening and early Saturday morning, Formentera Local Police confiscated 13 bags of marijuana with an approximate total weight of 26 grams; 1 gram of cocaine and 200 grams of hashish. The seizures, which occurred in both Sant Ferran and Es Pujols, were possible thanks to information collected by local police agents.
Underground car park at Plaça d'Europa in Es Pujols boasts 160% revenue increase compared to 2013
This year, the public pay-to-park lot at Es Pujols' Plaça d'Europa is exhibiting noticeable improvements to both the number of drivers using the space and to the amount of money the car park is bringing in. Between 1 January and 10 July of this year, a total of 4,995 temporary, 17 year-long, 52 monthly and 27 weekly parking passes have been sold, not to mention advertising space for two different public-display posters. Durin...
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