The Balearic Islands are increasingly far from meeting the greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments set for 2030, as current emissions exceed those recorded in 1990 by 80%, despite the established goal being to reduce them by 40% compared to that year. This is one of the main warnings in the manifesto for the life and future of the Balearic Islands, which has been drafted by the Climate Academy and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Climate Change of the Balearic Islands (LINCC), on the occasion of the International Day of Climate Action, which takes place this Saturday, October 24th.

The activists who were arrested last July for having painted several real estate agencies in Santa Maria will testify next Tuesday before the courts in Palma. The women, arrested on July 15th following several complaints for the damages caused to the establishments, have been summoned at 9:30 a.m. by the Court of First Instance, Instruction Section, Plaza 12.

"What can you do with 6,000 euros?". That is the question from Susana, a resident of the Rafal neighborhood, regarding the offer made by the fund that is now demanding she leave her home. "For them, 6,000 euros is nothing, and they offer us that in exchange for our home, as if we could do anything with that amount," she criticizes. The amount is not even enough to find a decent alternative housing option. Now, she and her partner are facing a judicial proceeding that has been dragging on for years and has changed actors with the successive sales of the property.

A compensation of 6,000 euros and avoiding prison time if he does not commit any crime during the next two years. This is the sentence that the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has imposed on a British tourist who raped a woman twice who had become unconscious after consuming cocaine and vodka. The defendant has acknowledged the facts and reached an agreement with the Public Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution that has allowed for the initial sentence request to be reduced from seven to two years.

The extraordinary regularization of foreign nationals, initiated last April, is already starting to yield results, but the procedure still presents numerous deficiencies. Delays in processing, errors in personal data, alerts from the Schengen Information System (SIS), and difficulties in obtaining the Foreigner Identity Card (TIE) are some of the obstacles detected by legal professionals. These incidents can lead to people with applications submitted under similar conditions ending up in very different administrative situations.

This year, the Record Fair will combine international rock from Bala and Will Hoge with a wide representation of the Mallorcan music scene, featuring nine bands from the Islands that will present their new record releases. The program also includes Mötley Queens, a tribute band to Mötley Crüe formed entirely by women, in a proposal that combines concerts, new record releases, and promotion of local talent.

The encampment for the right to housing in Palma denounced this Wednesday, coinciding with the second day of the general policy debate in Parliament, the distance between institutional discussions and the real needs of the citizenry. "We see a great difference between the political debate that the institutions are having and the needs and concerns of the people on the street," stated Miquel Marc Pou, one of the spokespersons for the social movement, who accuses political leaders of prioritizing the interests of property owners and the real estate sector over the demands of the population that needs to access affordable housing.

The new deputy prosecutor of the Balearic Islands, María Dolores Rial de la Calle, defended this Tuesday a "struggle without quarter or end" against drug trafficking during the inauguration ceremony at the Palace of Justice. After 15 years specializing in this field on the Islands, she has warned that criminal organizations are becoming increasingly professionalized and are using unknown technical means that hinder the work of investigators, such as encrypted communication platforms.

The housing encampment in Palma has called for various neighborhood assemblies in the city to prepare for the general housing strike on November 11th. The initiative aims to involve residents in the organization of the day of protest, which is framed as a mobilization "against the housing business." In parallel, Arran and the Student Union of the Catalan Countries (SEPC) have announced three strike committees to begin mobilizing the youth of Mallorca.

Antifeixistes Mallorca has announced that it is preparing a response to the presence of Núcleo Nacional in Palma, where the far-right group plans to set up a stall starting at 12:00 PM. “The Nazis of Núcleo Nacional want to spread their racist and xenophobic poison through the streets of Palma. If the City Council wants to allow this violent group to act with total impunity on our streets, we will not allow it,” the collective warned through social media.

The Christmas market that was set up in La Feixina last year, surrounded by controversy due to the occupation of public space, the products offered there, and the language in which it was held, wants to repeat this year in Parc de la Mar. It should be remembered that the residents of the area branded the event as "brazen colonization".

Plataforma per la Llengua has reported a violation of the right to be served in Catalan of a user of the Home Help Service (SAD) in Mallorca. The organization has provided legal advice to the beneficiary, who receives assistance from the company T'Ajuda, after she was assigned a professional who neither speaks nor understands Catalan. According to the organization, this situation makes it difficult for the user to express her needs normally and receive effective care in her own language.

The LGTBI rights association Ben Amics has reported a new case of violation of the rights of trans people within the public health system of the Balearic Islands. The entity asserts that in two continuous care centers (PAC) in Palma, they refused to process a new health card with the chosen name of a trans person because they did not present the ID with the registered name change.

The death of Maricarmen has struck the housing encampment in Palma, which this Wednesday received the news in the middle of an assembly at the Plaça d'Espanya. In a statement released after learning of her death, the participants expressed their "anger and pain" and directly accused those responsible for the eviction and the administrations of not having prevented the outcome. "Her death would have been easy to prevent, but they did not want to. Because Maricarmen has not died. Maricarmen has been murdered," the encampment asserts in the statement.

The Parliament has initiated the processing of a reform of Balearic civil law that expands succession agreements between spouses and certain stable couples, develops the economic rules of marriage, and strengthens figures such as compensation for dedication to the family. The bill, promoted jointly by all parliamentary groups, passed its consideration stage last Tuesday with the support of all and the abstention of two non-attached deputies.

The new housing measures approved this Tuesday by the Spanish government have not convinced the Tenants' Union of Mallorca, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), or the people maintaining the housing encampment at the Plaça d'Espanya in Palma. The three organizations acknowledge that the measures may provide some relief for those affected, but they consider them insufficient to solve the underlying problem.

A Majorcan DJ, Marga VM, has been forced to change her stage name after two years of working under the same identity. The disc jockey, who had been performing as Eclectica since 2024, received a formal request from a brand to stop using this name, which has been used by the brand in question since 2022, with a warning of potential legal consequences.

What was supposed to be a weekend of human tower brotherhood in Tarragona has turned, for dozens of Mallorcans from the Llevant area, into a race against time to get back home. The storm that is especially affecting Catalonia has complicated this weekend and, especially, this Sunday, air operations and has caused flight delays and cancellations at the airports of Palma and Menorca, according to sources close to the matter.

The decrees approved this week by the Spanish government regarding housing in the wake of the Maricarmen case have opened a debate that goes beyond the content of the measures. Although the two regulations have not passed the Congress filter, the emergency response to a residential crisis that manifests itself in evictions, rental prices, and a lack of housing alternatives has also brought to the table the extent to which one can legislate quickly without simultaneously generating more legal uncertainty.

The Spanish government delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, reiterated this Friday that the National Police will not evict the housing encampment in Palma's Plaza de España, despite the request from the Palma City Council for the Government Delegation to intervene and put an end to the protest.