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Empowering Local Innovation: Fuerteventura’s Dynamic Startup Scene
Fuerteventura is witnessing a burgeoning startup culture that promises to reshape the island’s economic landscape. With its unique blend of natural beauty and entrepreneurial spirit, local businesses are now embracing innovation to drive growth and sustainability.
Recent initiatives by the Cabildo de Fuerteventura have fostered a supportive environment for budding entrepreneurs. From tech incubators to mentorship programs, these resources provide aspiring business owners not just with funding, but with the expertise needed to navigate the competitive market. Local startups are focusing on sectors like renewable energy, tourism tech, and sustainable agriculture, aligning their objectives with the island’s ecological vision.
Moreover, the rise of online platforms has enabled Fuerteventura’s startups to reach global markets, putting the island on the entrepreneurial map. As digital transformation accelerates, local entrepreneurs are leveraging technology to enhance their offerings and meet the demands of a changing consumer landscape. This synergy not only creates jobs but also positions Fuerteventura as a significant player in the broader Canary Islands business ecosystem.
Source: Gobierno de Canarias
25 out of 100 workers, on sick leave UGT Public Services Fuerteventura has come out in defense of the officials of the Tuineje City Council and has demanded a public rectification from the vice president of the Cabildo, insular Minister of Public Works and general secretary of the Majorero PSOE, Blas Acosta, for some public statements made yesterday Wednesday in which he alluded to the need to “choose officials well” and warned of the difficulty of managing the municipality “when you do not have a body of officials prepared.” The words have caused great discomfort among the public employees of the southern council and have led the union to reject the idea that the administrative problems that Tuineje is going through may be due to an alleged lack of training of its staff. During the interview, José Miguel de Saá, union representative of UGT in the Tuineje City Council and member of the Personnel Board, maintained that the blockade responds to the lack of personnel, the pending tenders and a political management that, in his opinion, has not faced the structural problems of the City Council in time. “We are already tired,” he acknowledged when explaining the negative impact that the words of the insular general secretary of one of the formations that govern the local corporation have had on the employees. And it is not an isolated fact, he acknowledged, that idea “is on the street.” The union representative was especially critical of the suggestion that public personnel could be chosen based on political criteria. “The officials are not elected by politicians,” he stressed. “A politician does not put them to the finger. We have held some oppositions, we have been around for quite some time,” he stressed, making Blas Acosta’s words ugly. Along these lines, De Saá defended the trajectory of the Tuineje City Council staff who, in many cases, have been working in the local administration for more than two decades. “I have been here for 26 years. The work of all this time ago turns out that we did it well and right off the bat we are already incompetent, we are not capable of doing our work or it really is that the workforce has decreased,” he stated, making his rejection of the demonstrations visible. Lack of human resources For UGT, the key is precisely the lack of human resources and the material impossibility of assuming the volume of accumulated work. De Saá explained that the City Council currently has “25 casualties in a city council out of a staff of 100 people” and warned that there are municipal areas without the minimum staff. “There really are council departments in the Tuineje City Council that do not have even one administrative assistant,” he warned. This lack of personnel is forcing, as he denounced, municipal workers to assume functions that do not correspond to them. “There are many administrative assistants who perform administrative functions, even technical ones. And that is what cannot be maintained. There is a lack of people who are civil servants,” he claimed. The union representative also placed part of the blockage on the accumulated delay in public procurement. He recalled that since 2017 administrations must tender for supplies and services that are repeated over time, but regretted that Tuineje has continued to operate for years through minor contracts. “The minor contract can be specific and for one time. It cannot be repeated over time,” he explained. In his opinion, this dynamic has conditioned the ordinary functioning of the consistory. De Saá insisted that this is not a new situation nor attributable only to the current moment, but rather a drift accumulated during different political stages. “If no one is capable of organizing this and complying with what is established, then here we continue in the eastern framework without direction,” he lamented. In his opinion, it creates a wheel that is difficult to break. There is not enough staff to process tenders, without tenders services and contracts are blocked, and this same blockage prevents organizing the municipal structure and reinforcing the workforce. The result, he warned, is a City Council trapped in the urgency of daily life, with workers assuming functions that do not correspond to them and files that accumulate without real response capacity. More money than ever but we don’t know how to manage it. On the other hand, UGT also questions whether the debate is reactivated in a pre-electoral context. “Now is when politicians start to worry about why things haven’t worked out. Let’s see, they have been here for three years and there are things that we were carrying over from other legislatures why they haven’t worried before,” he reproached. The unionist defended that Tuineje does not have an economic problem, but rather a management one. “We have more money than we have ever had, but we don’t know how to manage it,” he stated, in reference to the remnants and the difficulty of the City Council to convert these funds into effective services for citizens. Tuineje’s problem is not in the capacity of its public employees, he reiterated, but in an insufficient structure, poor planning and years of pending duties in hiring, organization and staff reinforcement.
Originally reported by www.lavozdefuerteventura.com, rewritten by the Fuerteventura Times AI Editorial Desk.
