Tourism
Balearics gets on its bike for World Travel Market
The World Travel Market opens in London on Monday and the Balearic Islands are going to be pushing sport and gastronomic tourism.
Health
Flu jabs now available in health centres
Flu jabs are available at all the health centres across Majorca.
Rugby
Build-up is on to the kick-off of local rugby season
A pre-season friendly match took place in Son Caliu on Saturday between long-time rivals El Toro RC and RC Ponent.
Health
Majorca to host first national conference to improve help for MS sufferers
The theme of the confererence is cerebral atrophy and cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases.
Northern News Spotlight
Son Bosc finca will "definitively" not become a golf course
"What is Son Bosc, a natural protected space or a golf course?"
Tourism
Business tourism up 9%; worth nearly €4.4 billion
Spain received a total of 4.31 million business tourists last year or 6.6% of the total, representing a 6% increase over 2013.
Environment
Soller hunt for the Asian hornet
Having formed several groups, they set off into different wooded areas, armed with binoculars and maps in “looking for a needle in a haystack.”
Employment
Campaign against worker exploitation bringing in 350,000 euros in fines
A total of 31 inspectors were involved in the campaign, and 8,008 temporary work contracts were investigated.
Entertainment
"People often ask me if my father was the real James Bond..."
"Robert and my mother always felt that they ‘discovered’ Majorca in the 1950s."
Northern News Spotlight
Alcudia business owners seek action on all-inclusive
A commission of half-a-dozen business owners in the Bellevue-Magic main tourism centre of Alcudia is to meet with the town's mayor.
Son Servera
Son Servera looks at ways of boosting business
The town hall is looking to involve businesses in Cala Bona and Cala Millor as well.
Palma
Palma terrace tax increases could mean the loss of 5,000 jobs
"This increase is an unfair, disproportionate and unjustified."
Tourism
Cruising through autumn
Over 100 hundred cruise-ship visits are likely to have been made through October.
Environment
Government praises suspension of prospecting permission
Decision by Madrid is not enough because there are still two prospecting operations and one of these is in Balearic waters.
Banking
CaixaBank Q3 profit up 26 per cent to 288 million euros
The profit fell short of an average forecast of 307 million.
Animal welfare
More councils ban bullfights
“We are continuing to gain ground and achieve our aim of banning bullfighting in the Balearics."
Palma
Palma terrace tax to rise by up to 86 per cent
Bartomeu Cañellas for the C’s: “now is not the time to be increasing taxes”.
Animal welfare
Animal rights groups welcome sentence of owner who killed horse
“The atrocious death of this horse in its own stables is something which does not happen in the 21st century."
Employment
The Balearics outperforms national employment market
Unemployment in the Balearics for the third quarter was down by 13.6% (14,000).
Northern News Spotlight
Alcudia Maristany project is revived
Under the former ecotax, a plan that would have cost over nine million euros was developed.
- Another body found by a Mallorca beach
- The growing problem in the Balearics of the illegal marketing of second homes as tourist accommodation
- As the town hall announces 21 million euros investment, Playa de Palma residents denounce drugs and homelessness
- Sunday weather in Mallorca - Feeling some effect from Storm Jana
- Balearic government plans big increase in tax on cruise ship passengers and even a cash levy on hire cars