"Holy cow! What are we doing here?". This was the reaction of some of the members of the Palma Municipal Music Band of Palma when, a few minutes before the start of the event in defense of Ceuta, they saw the atmosphere and heard the shouts against the Spanish government and Pedro Sánchez. One of the musicians explains that the ensemble had been requested by the mayor, Jaime Martínez, and that they approached it like any other institutional act. "But one thing is to be with the people of Ceuta and another is to want to oust a government", he summarizes.

A 29-year-old foreign man died after midnight this Thursday after being hit by a vehicle in front of a nightclub in Palma. The incident took place on the Ma-19A road, at the Can Capó path, in front of the Amok nightclub.

Thousands of people gathered this Wednesday at the Plaça de Cort in Palma in an event called by the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, in solidarity with Ceuta. The event, which took place at the Plaça de Cort coinciding with Ceuta Day, turned into a cry against the Spanish government with "Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch" (in Spanish) and "Pedro Sánchez, resignation" as leitmotifs. Among the attendees, constant shouts and insults were heard against the head of the Spanish executive, while numerous participants displayed Spanish flags, some of them Francoist. The demonstration began at 8 p.m. and was called within the framework of the mobilizations in support of Ceuta held throughout the State. According to the Local Police figures, 19,000 people participated, while the National Police point out that there were 8,000.

The Palma City Council has begun works to repair and restore a section of the Puig de Sant Pere wall, an intervention that will allow the recovery of part of the structure and enhance this element of the city's heritage.

The UGT union has called off the strike at the Son Reus Animal Welfare Center managed by the concessionaire Athisa, which began on August 24, amid accusations of strikebreaking, and has announced a legal offensive. The union organization explained that it is withdrawing the protest after confirming the neutralization of the pressure measure as a direct consequence of the “serious and illegal external strikebreaking perpetrated by the municipal management of the Palma City Council”.

Among his references were Subcomandante Marcos and Malcolm X, one of his idols when he was young. He played basketball, but he has also been practicing less conventional sports for years, such as boxing. He is a fan of Ismael Serrano. He studied Catalan Philology at the UIB and then Anthropology at the UB. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, students at the Ramon Llull building at the UIB filled the walls with graffiti against the war. Near the main stairs, one can still be seen. It was made by David Pujol, now a Catalan teacher and candidate for MÉS per Palma for the mayoralty of Ciutat. "Like the others, they wanted to cover it up, but it can still be distinguished." Says Antoni Trobat, David's friend since their university years.

A considerably sized vessel caught fire this Friday afternoon in the Can Pere Antoni area, in Palma, causing a dense column of smoke visible from the coast.

UGT Public Services reported this Thursday that the strike in protest against precariousness at the Son Reus municipal kennels, in Palma, which began indefinitely last Monday at 2 p.m., has one hundred percent follow-up. The staff is complying in a "strict and scrupulous" manner with the minimum services decreed, despite considering that they are curtailing their fundamental right to strike, the union assured.

The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has invited citizens to participate in a demonstration in the Plaça de Cort on Wednesday, September 2, at 8:00 PM, coinciding with Ceuta Day, in solidarity with the autonomous city and to "defend the territorial integrity" of Spain. The same square that just a month ago "was saturated with events" and that prevented the outdoor dinner organized by Brunzzit from being held normally, has been denounced by Podem. The City Council has thus joined the call by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces to gather in front of town halls as a show of solidarity with Ceuta. Martínez pointed out that "what is happening in Ceuta concerns everyone" and that it "must serve as a warning" to the Islands, as he highlighted in a video published on Instagram.

The institutions of the Balearic Islands have acknowledged the impact of tourist saturation on citizens. However, the remedies to alleviate its effects are diverse, while the Islands are on track to reach 20 million visitors this 2026. In the case of the Palma City Council, the Fundació Turisme Palma 365 is committed to "improving the perception" that residents of the city have of tourist activity, with a strategy whose objective is to work on the "pride of belonging" of the people of Palma to their city, in the words of the entity's manager, Pedro Homar.

The residents of Son Sardina have exploded against the Palma City Council after the real estate company Solvia sold the Can Pesquet plot to a private individual, a space that the neighborhood has been claiming for years to turn it into a square and a community center. "We are facing an absolute display of contempt," they lamented. The popular assembly of Son Sardina and La Garriga assures that the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, knows "how important this plot is" for the neighborhood and recalls that they have carried out mobilizations and various protest actions before different government teams to demand more public spaces. According to their complaints, this lack of space even makes it difficult to hold the neighborhood festivals each year. This Tuesday, the Palma council emphasized that they have been in talks with the current owner for months and that if an agreement is not reached, they will end up expropriating the property.

The residents of Pere Garau have alerted to a wave of vehicle thefts in the neighborhood, in particular, and in Palma in general. As they criticize, this situation particularly affects working people who cannot afford the cost of renting a parking space for more than 120 euros per month. Therefore, the platform Flipau amb Pere Garau continues with the campaign to reduce the possibility of robberies.

A volleyball coach has been arrested in Palma for allegedly raping and impregnating a minor.

A woman with two bags in each hand, a man with a fanny pack and a cap, another woman dragging a cart; they are all sweating profusely. A daily scene. They advance clinging to the facade of the buildings, like a line of ants, as if an invisible force were pulling them. In reality, just the opposite is happening: it is the heat that pushes them to seek the little shade cast by the street blocks. They are all heading towards Miquel Dolç square from Josep Darder street with different purposes, but with a shared secondary objective: to be touched as little as possible by the relentless sun of a July morning.

Although Palma has witnessed the most important anti-saturation protest in the Balearic Islands this summer, Cort is determined to attract more tourists from the United States and plans to carry out two major promotional actions in the North American country. The Palma 365 Tourism Foundation has awarded a contract worth 217,800 euros (including VAT) to the company Corporacion Comunicacion Iberoamericana Barcelo y Asoc. S.L. to carry out the "planning, organization, production and execution of a tourism promotion program aimed at travel agents specialized in high-value tourism from the North American market", according to the justification report of the tender available on the Public Sector Procurement Platform.

A worker was injured this Saturday morning after being run over by a truck that was reversing in the parking lot of a shopping center in Palma.

British singer John Newman and Rudimental DJ will headline on September 5 the patron saint's concert of Palma, which will take place at Parc de la Mar and which, after last year's edition, which brought together more than 32,000 people, the event will once again occupy the six lanes of the Maritime Promenade.

The Detailed Urban Plan (POD) of Palma still has no timetable two years after municipal technicians took over its drafting. It is a fundamental instrument for interpreting and applying Palma's General Plan, approved by the Pact shortly before losing the elections. Cort assures that the document handed over by Territorios y Ciudad “did not meet the necessary conditions for its approval,” but does not specify what deficiencies it had, what work has been done since April 2024, or what remains to be completed.

Madò Farta attacks again. After a summer marked by numerous mobilizations against mass tourism, the activist joins to citizen initiatives, such as those organized by Brunzit, and has called for an action to collectively cool off on August 29th in the Plaça d'Espanya in Palma.

The spokesperson for MÉS per Palma, Neus Truyol, has presented a series of amendments to the new Ordinance on Urbanization, Tree Cover, and Public Spaces to increase vegetation and shaded areas and implement climate shelters in all neighborhoods in the face of rising temperatures. She accused the PP this Monday of proposing a "lackluster" regulation that, in her opinion, does not prepare the city to face the climate emergency and will condemn residents to suffer "hellish summers".