The drivers of EMT Palma denounce a situation of a lack of operational vehicles that, according to them, affects daily service and the municipal company's ability to cover planned reinforcements and frequencies. The workers attribute a large part of the problems to the difficulties in incorporating the 23 new electric buses and to technical incidents in part of the current fleet. These new vehicles are part of the EMT's Strategic Plan 2024-2027, which foresees the incorporation of up to 113 zero-emission vehicles, as announced by the City Council.

The Pere Garau Saludable association has reported that the Palma City Council has paved the tree pits of trees felled on Torcuato Luca de Tena street without planning for their replacement. According to the entity, this action is in addition to the sealing of other spaces that previously housed trees on Faust Morell and dels Reis Catòlics streets, which "evidences a progressive reduction" of the green heritage of Palma's most populated neighborhood, they criticize. The association calls for urgent compensatory measures and a municipal strategy that guarantees the recovery of the lost trees.

The traditional Flexas festival will not be held this year in Parc de la Mar. After being declared a festival of municipal interest last year, the Palma City Council has withdrawn its support for the organization of the event. The decision comes amid controversy over the LGTBIQ+ Pride celebration and represents a new blow to two of the main spaces linked to the visibility and celebration of queer culture.

Migrant organizations from the Balearic Islands have expressed this Saturday their "deep indignation" at the decision of the Government of Marga Prohens to appeal to the Supreme Court against the extraordinary regularization process approved by the Spanish government and to request its provisional suspension. Among the signing organizations are the Platform for Immigration in the Balearic Islands, the Federation of Immigrant Associations (FADI), the Association of Ecuadorians of Ibiza and Formentera, and the Association of Senegalese of the Balearic Islands.

The tension between the caravan dwellers of Son Hugo and the Palma City Council continues to rise. The residents of the area report feeling "harassed" by Cort and by police actions, while they claim that living in caravans is not a choice, but the only possible alternative given the runaway increase in housing costs in Mallorca.

The old Lluís Sitjar field will house a new sports complex with a capacity for up to 2,500 spectators, prepared to host different types of sporting and cultural events. The overall project, which includes the sports facilities, two parking areas with capacity for 650 vehicles, a green area, and the reorganization of the surrounding roads, will have a budget of approximately 44 million euros.

The Freedom Flotilla sailing towards Gaza with the objective of breaking the blockade imposed by Israel and delivering urgent humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people was intercepted this Monday, May 18, at 10 AM in international waters. On one of the boats, the Cabo Blanco, travels the Mallorcan volunteer Toni Riera.

'Noise is torture'. With this forceful slogan, various neighborhood associations in Palma have intensified their protest against the noise pollution that, they claim, neighborhoods like Santa Catalina, El Jonquet, the Paseo Marítimo, and the sa Llotja-Born area have suffered for years due to uncontrolled nightlife.

Yúnez Chaib, a comedian born in Melilla and raised in Mallorca, has developed her career through wit, sensitivity, and social criticism. We talk about her beginnings at Trampa Teatre in Palma to her rise to popularity on shows like La Resistencia, channels like Comedy Central, and the book she has just published, Corderito (Aguilar, 2026), which she will present on May 16 in Manacor –12 p.m. at Món de Llibres– and on June 5 in Palma.

Mallorca will host the 1st Para-Karate Championship on June 4th, an initiative promoted by the Kifudo karate school and Aspace Mallorca that aims to be a starting point for giving more visibility to adapted sports in the Islands. The project was born after two years of joint work between sensei Ian Bauzá and Aspace users.

A fire declared this Wednesday afternoon in a shantytown located between Son Gotleu and the Vía de Cintura in Palma, near the Germans Escales sports center, has generated alarm among residents of the area and significant traffic jams. The fire, which has already been extinguished, started shortly before 3:30 PM and affected four or five shacks, although no fatalities or injuries were reported.

Ben Amics has confirmed this Saturday the definitive cancellation of the LGTBI Pride festival in Palma. It will be the first time in more than twenty years that the entity will not organize this celebration. The association attributes the decision to the lack of agreements with the Palma City Council and accuses the municipal government of not assuming "real" commitments with diversity policies.

The old Metropolitan cinemas in Pere Garau will be converted into a nine-story multi-service center with an investment of 14.5 million euros. Construction will begin in the third quarter of 2027.

MÉS per Palma has filed objections to the municipal plan for sustainable water management promoted by the PP government (with the support of VOX) because it considers it a document that jeopardizes citizens' right to access water. The City Council presented this plan in February of this year to address short- and long-term supply in a scenario where the viability of supplying the 46,000 new homes planned for the city in the next decade is questioned.

The spokesperson for the Platform of Mortgage Affected People (PAH), Àngela Pons, has lashed out at the decision of the Palma City Council (PP with the support of Vox) to reject neighborhood requests to reverse the transfer of endowment plots to development companies for housing construction. Pons has censured that public land is being given away to put homes on sale for 270,000 euros or rental flats for 1,400 euros. "They are not limited prices nor reasonable rents," she criticized, before concluding: "They are giving away municipal land to rent flats for 1,400 euros".

Indignation and bewilderment among the devil groups of Palma after the City Council has limited to 11 the number of annual correfocs in the neighborhoods of the entire City. The measure, recently approved, represents a radical change from the previous situation, in which there was no limit and activities were managed according to the demand and organizational capacity of the neighborhoods and the groups.

The Ombudsman of Palma, Anna Moilanen, has issued a warning about the paralysis of municipal subsidies: if the situation is not resolved quickly, "it could mean the disappearance of a part of the associative fabric" of the City. The suspension, which is already extending towards the fifth month without a clear resolution timeline, affects "a wide range of activities – educational, sports, cultural, social, and neighborhood – and puts services at risk" which, in some cases, compensate for "shortcomings of the Administration itself", she explained.

The suspension of municipal grants for 2026 in Palma has set off alarm bells among the neighborhood fabric, which denounces a lack of information, legal uncertainty, and a real risk of activities in the neighborhoods grinding to a halt. Associations warn that the situation, linked to an audit by the Court of Auditors of the 2022 grants, not only affects ongoing projects but also casts doubt on the continuity of aid for 2027.

"What a shame to be poor", one reader of romantasy tells another as she considers a hardcover edition with a colored spine of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros's bestselling saga. After a brief debate with her friend and several knowing glances, the book ended up in the bookseller's hands and the credit card did the rest. Transaction completed, happy reader. The scene took place in the space that one of the main bookstores has set up for Sant Jordi in Plaça d'Espanya in Palma. Like this one, hundreds, perhaps thousands, have been repeated this Book Day.