A boat with nine migrants on board has arrived this Friday afternoon in the south of Fuerteventura, emergency services sources have reported.

It was carrying five men, a woman and three minors, who reached the coast of Gran Tarajal, in the south of Fuerteventura, by their own means.

In principle, immigrants are in good health.

A motorcyclist is in serious condition after suffering a head-on collision in the Rosa de la Monja urbanization, in the municipality of Puerto del Rosario.

The man, at the initial moment of assistance, had several serious injuries, so he was transferred in a medicalized ambulance from the SUC to the General Hospital of Fuerteventura.

7:14 p.m., the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert reporting a head-on collision

The Territorial Information System of the Canary Islands and the update of the Census of discharges from land to sea, included in the Fuerteventura report of the Government of the Canary Islands, of June of this year, mark 40 points of discharges on the island.

The most common type of discharge is urban wastewater. In fact, half of the discharges are of this type, and almost a third are brine from desalination plants. The rest, a minority, are refrigeration and swimming pools.

Three out of

A 45-year-old man has been arrested in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, for allegedly trafficking drugs by sending parcels from Gran Canaria via a logistics company.

According to the Policía Nacional, the man was moving illegal substances between the islands, concealing them within packages labelled as legitimate merchandise.

The arrest was made on 31st July following a joint operation between the Drug Squad of the Puerto del Rosario Police station and the Drugs and Organised Crime Unit

The Regional Preferete League starts on 29 August. It will feature 4 Fuerteventura teams - Union Puerto, Sotavento, Villaverde and CD Cotillo, and teams from Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.

I will post on here when I've listed out the home fixtures for the Fuerteventura teams.

This season the top team will be promoted and there will be play offs for the next 4 teams. The bottom 4 will be relegated.

A helicopter of the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) of the Government of the Canary Islands has rescued in Fuerteventura this Tuesday a 17-year-old girl who has suffered a syncope (she fainted) while she was in the difficult access area of Morro Jable, in the municipality of Pájara.

The Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 112 received the alert at 3:20 p.m. and sent the rescue helicopter to the place where the affected woman was.

At the initial time of assistance, the min

GES helicopter rescue of an injured hiker in Fuerteventura
The man was in an area that was difficult to access while walking along the El Bayuyo trail, in La Oliva.

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A man had to be rescued by the GES helicopter while hiking on the El Bayuyo trail, in the municipality of La Oliva, SOS La Oliva personnel alerted the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands indicating that they had fou

The Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) assisted a 19-year-old man who was seriously injured after falling from the third floor of a hotel complex in the Majorero municipality of Pájara in the early hours of Sunday, 112 reported.

The Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert at 1:57 a.m. in which they reported that a person had fallen, for unknown reasons, from a third floor of the hotel establishment and needed medical a

Three people were injured on Monday in a head-on collision between two vehicles on the FV-2 road, at kilometre 55, in the municipality of Pájara, according to the Emergency and Security Coordination Centre (CECOES) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands.

The accident occurred at 3:16 p.m. on Monday and left a woman with serious polytrauma, who had to be rescued from inside the vehicle by Pájara firefighters.

After being stabilized by the staff of the Canary Islands Emergency Service

Hello. 

I've seen a lot of people asking about car sales, car hire, and car repair shops. That's why I want to personally recommend what I consider to be the best car repair shop in Fuerteventura. 

It's a business in the town of El Matorral called Taller Fuercar Matorral, which was recommended to me by a friend from the golf course. They have reasonable prices, they solve your problems and they speak English. I had to get my car inspected, so I went to them and they did everything for me