The Palma City Council has evicted the old Palma prison after a court authorized its execution due to the high risk that, according to various technical reports, the state of the property represents for the people who still reside there. The operation, coordinated between the Local Police and the National Police, began at 12 noon and lasted for a large part of the day. One of the evicted, Bernardino, a 60-year-old Italian who was evicted, criticized being treated like a drug trafficker and commented to journalists: "Tonight I will sleep on the street, in this park, what a mess."

For years, Cuba was one of the star destinations in the Caribbean for residents of the Balearic Islands. Its beaches, colonial heritage, culture, and close ties with Mallorcan tourism companies made it a regular choice for travel agencies. Today, however, the situation is very different. Vacation bookings to the island have plummeted, and the sector openly admits it no longer recommends it with the same confidence as before.

The history of Melià Hotels International in Cuba can only be understood within the economic shift experienced by the Caribbean island in the late eighties and early nineties. With the fall of the Soviet bloc between 1989 and 1991, Cuba loses its main economic support and enters the so-called Special Period, a stage of profound crisis marked by a lack of foreign currency, scarcity of basic products, and the collapse of a large part of productive activity.

Nearly 50% of investors in photovoltaic megaprojects in the Balearic Islands are islanders. These projects, which often generate debate due to their impact on the land, are usually financed by contributions from individuals and investment funds. In the Balearic Islands, local participation is particularly high, and more and more residents are investing part of their savings in them, seeking economic returns. For these investors, it represents a new business opportunity that has emerged, while a significant portion of society, including environmental groups, agricultural organizations, and even the Administration, have expressed concern about the territorial destruction they promote.

María Pombo, one of the influencers most followed in Spain, has been the protagonist of two of the questions on the Spanish exam for the Selectividad (university entrance exam) taken by students from the Balearic Islands this Tuesday, the first day of the PAU tests in the Archipelago. Specifically, the content creator appears in the question where students are asked to identify and explain the syntactic relationships established between the clauses in the following fragment: "The controversy surrounding María Pombo regarding reading has demonstrated the capacity that social networks have today to fix a debate in public conversation".

Less Tourism, More Life has already set a date for the new protest against tourist saturation in the Balearic Islands: July 26th. This Sunday, June 7th, on the steps of the Cathedral, the organization will present both this call to action and other actions planned for this summer to fight against massification and the economic and tourism model of the Archipelago.

The music scene of the Balearic Islands has also raised its voice against the tourist overcrowding experienced in the Archipelago, and more and more groups and artists are dedicating songs to denounce the saturation and how residents have been relegated to being practically second-class citizens to the detriment of tourists. The latest to do so have been the Mallorcan artists Amulet and Xisk, who have released the track In Paradise, a new criticism of tourist overcrowding and the current model of the Balearic Islands. In the song, they ironically and poignantly review the problems that this saturation derives from and how the Archipelago has become a theme park where residents are the last. In fact, the first line of the song already makes this message clear: "I come from a land that no longer wants me. Theme park, next to Hong Kong".

The group Ginestà has consolidated itself as one of the most outstanding formations in the Catalan music scene, with a project that has grown from small venues to the major festivals of the Catalan Countries. With a proposal that claims making music in Catalan as an essential part of their artistic identity and focused on everyday emotions, the group has been expanding its connection with the audience. Now they arrive in Mallorca, where they will perform at TribuFest this weekend.

The GOB, the most important environmental organization in the Balearic Islands, a national and international benchmark that has contributed to the preservation of emblematic spaces and the generation of environmental awareness in the Islands, is going through a major crisis in its Mallorcan section. The internal conflict of the board of directors ended on Friday with the resignation of the president Teresa Cuenet and nine other members. There are 13 officials left at the helm of the organization.

Sidonie is one of the benchmark bands of Spanish alternative pop with its own discourse that, over more than two decades of career, has evolved without losing its identity. Recently, however, the Barcelona-based group made an unexpected and significant turn: their latest album, Catalan graffiti (2025), is the first entirely in Catalan. On the eve of their concert at TribuFest in Felanitx, on Friday, May 29, their singer, Marc Ros, also talks about the life stage they are going through, their doubts, their successes, and the need to reconnect with music from a freer and more essential perspective.

The extraordinary assembly of GOB this Friday ended with the resignation of ten members of the board of directors, including the president, Teresa Cuennet. The reason, as explained by the resigned members: the impossibility of reaching an understanding with the other part of the same board of directors regarding the entity's model and work system.

A young worker has denounced, through social networks, the conditions in which a hotel in Mallorca, for which she worked, kept her during her stay at the company. Living in a bathroom, with a mattress on the floor and completely unsanitary conditions, which led to health problems, and psychological abuse that has finally taken its toll, despite having already left the company.

Joan Carles March Cerdà (1960) is a Doctor of Medicine and currently a professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health, of which he was director. He is one of the most media-friendly island doctors. This resident of Pollença, based in Granada, has just published Más de 11 vidas, a collection of testimonies from people with suicide attempts, their families and survivors, as well as experts in the field.

The Mallorcan brand Miss Vermut has once again been recognized at the World Vermouth Awards. After winning the award for the best vermouth in the world in the semi-sweet category in 2025, this year the company from sa Pobla has obtained the Gold 2026 medal in the same category with its most daring proposal: Miss Vermut Picant.

On August 12, a law will come into force in Europe prohibiting the use of single-dose sachets for condiments, sauces, and other items in the restaurant industry. This regulation, however, should not have any additional impact on the Balearic Islands because the Archipelago already has its own Waste Law that controls the use of these containers, approved by the previous Pact government. The problem is that this law is not really being applied and not even the restaurateurs themselves know what to do. "There is quite a bit of confusion, we have had to request meetings because we don't even know what to do," explains the manager of CAEB Restauració, Tomeu Mas.

The Correllengua Agermanat 2026 reached its end with a resounding success, that of becoming a historic mobilization in defense of the Catalan language. During the two weeks of its duration, more than 180,000 people have participated in this first edition, covering 1,500 kilometers, passing through 500 municipalities, and 30,000 people have been torchbearers. The spokesperson for Correllengua Agermanat, Pau Emili Muñoz, assures that the event's success is "a demonstration of strength" and emphasizes it as follows: "As a society, Catalan-speaking territories have regained the enthusiasm to fight for the Catalan language and demand its real normalization".

One of the most emblematic products of the Ibizan gastronomic tradition and the Balearic Islands has crossed borders and reached Japan. The Ibizan herbs from the Marí Mayans firm have participated in the Anuga Japan 2026 fair, in Tokyo, where they have aroused the interest of professionals and visitors in one of the most demanding markets in the world.

After announcing their brief return, Ossifar has released a new song, I Don't Like Reggaeton, which can now be heard on digital platforms. The track is the result of this reunion with the public and was presented this past Wednesday at El Corte Inglés, where the group also announced that on May 30th they will have a meet-and-greet with fans, including a signing and photo session.

The Correllengua Agermanat 2026 arrives in the Balearic Islands to light the Flame that crosses the entirety of the Catalan-speaking territories in a symbolic chain that unites towns, islands, and cities in a single celebration of language and culture. After having traveled through Catalonia and the Valencian Country with a massive response and a multitudinous participation, the project arrives this year in the Balearic Islands to continue an itinerary that has already consolidated itself as one of the most transversal cultural mobilizations of recent years.

The sale of the warehouse and the rustic land exploited by the founding company l'Esplet is now the last chapter in the disappearance of a benchmark in the Balearic countryside. At the beginning of the month, the company's closure and the dismissal of its 19 workers due to economic problems were made public. Now, two weeks later, the company is selling the warehouse and land for five million euros.