The Formentera Department of Social Welfare reports that the island’s adult day care facility has reopened for normal service today after six staff in close contact with a Covid-19-positive beneficiary tested negative for the disease and completed a mandatory period of isolation. The Formentera Day Centre closed on 25 February following news of the individual’s positive test results, with users and employees of the centre scre...
David Bueno, doctor of biology and professor and researcher at University of Barcelona, will lead a discussion entitled “Learning from change and uncertainty: a neuroeducational perspective”. Broadcast on the Consell de Formentera Facebook page, the talk is part of the “Talks for families” series hosted by the Formentera Department of Social Welfare. Bueno will trace how the brain adapts to changes in uncertain times and give ...
Officers of the Formentera Local Police and Civil Guard ticketed 19 individuals yesterday at 7.15pm for failure to comply with public health orders. At approximately 7.00pm a private citizen notified authorities that thirty-some mask-less individuals were flouting distancing protocol and were gathered near a dry-dock on Migjorn beach. Law enforcement appeared on the scene and identified a group of 19 people in violation of ma...
Formentera Local Police are pressing charges against a Sant Ferran business after officers found total capacity was exceeded and patrons were smoking in outdoor seating areas — both violations of public health rules related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Pursuit of the charges will depend on the Balearic office of emergencies, but considering previous citations and temporary shuttering for flouting Covid measures, the Consell de Fo...
The local offices of inspection and land have ordered crews to cease installation of a sluice gate on the canal connecting Estany Pudent to the nearby sea. The individuals executing the work had failed to notify local departments of environment, heritage and land. Local inspection services, Formentera Local Police and agents of the regional environment ministry and coastal authority arrived on the scene after the island’s ins...
The Formentera offices of tourism and environment report that architects of an effort to study the direct impact of drainage pipes, watercraft and human activity on posidonia meadows in the Anthropocene will share their findings in a 6.30pm YouTube presentation on Wednesday 10 March. Researchers in the Imedea-backed “Antroposi” project walked away with €83,822 in funding after beating out the competition in the inaugural editi...
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