The Ulls de Dona (Women's Eyes) cycle, organized by the Estudi General Lul·lià and supported by the Consell de Mallorca, kicks off this week with a series of screenings focused on women and the countryside, and will continue with other themes related to affectivity, the kiss as a protagonist, and special attention to the perspective of adolescents. In its third edition, it approaches cinema from a female perspective in terms of encounter and alliance to generate critical thinking, making a proposal aimed at all audiences and also with specific activities for adolescents.

While institutions repeat the mantra of tourism containment, the machinery of promotion and the search for new markets to attract more tourists does not stop. In the case of the Council of Mallorca, the Minister of Tourism, Guillem Ginard, and the Island Director of Demand and Hospitality, Tomeu Ferragut, will meet with representatives of Turespaña in Italy, the United States, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates, countries that the island institution considers "markets of strategic interest" for the island. The meetings will take place during the Turespaña convention, from October 20 to 22, in Zaragoza.

The Sant Llorenç flash flood of October 9, 2018, which caused 13 deaths, reaches its sixth anniversary this Friday with the bypass works still half-finished. The work, which began in April and involves an investment of nine million euros, aims to increase the capacity of the bridge over the Les Planes torrent and reduce the risk of overflowing.

Tirme rejects that it obtains "stratospheric profits" for the management of waste in Mallorca and maintains that the financial contributions from the Council serve to lower the cost of the service for the municipalities. The concessionaire responded this Wednesday to the report from the General Intervention of the island institution that questions the tariff system and warns of imbalances in the concession. The company maintains that the document's assessments do not reflect its economic reality and claims that it learned of its content through the media.

Miquel Oliver Gomila (Més-Esquerra) will cease to be mayor of Manacor this Thursday, after more than seven years at the head of the City Council, to prepare his candidacy for the presidency of the Council of Mallorca in the May 2027 elections. The current Councillor for Culture, Ferran Montero, will replace him. Oliver, who has been a councillor for 17 years, will remain at the City Council and will take on the Culture area with a part-time commitment.

The rumor that was insistently circulating through the corridors of the municipal offices has finally been confirmed. 07500 has learned that the until-now mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver (Més-Esquerra), has decided to leave more than half a year before this term ends. He is doing so to prepare for the future elections as a candidate for the Council of Mallorca for MÉS and to clear the way for his successor, the until-now councilor for Education and Culture, Ferran Montero, who thus takes over a role that, in theory, was to take effect at the end of May if Més-Esquerra managed to revalidate the trust of the people of Manacor.

The PSIB-PSOE will force Llorenç Galmés's government to pronounce itself again on the Tirme concession. The socialists will defend a motion in the next plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca to suspend the processing of the 2026 waste tariff and halt the payment of the 41.4 million euros approved this summer until the real costs of the service have been reviewed. The initiative also incorporates a new front: it demands a review of the 50 million committed by the Government of the Balearic Islands for the transport and treatment of Ibiza's waste in Mallorca, after the PSIB denounced that 41 million have already been transferred without any economic report to justify the amount.

Mallorca wants to set a limit on the entry of vehicles to the island and is seeking European endorsement for the regulation currently being processed by the Balearic Parliament. The president of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has presented the proposal this Wednesday to the Director of Tourism of the Directorate-General for Mobility of the European Commission, Mona Björklund, within the framework of the Connecting Europe Days conference taking place in Brussels.

The Santa Maria de Formentor youth camp, located on the Cala Murta estate, will recover its use as a space for camps and educational activities after its renovation. The space, linked for decades to youth camps, will thus return to having a public use intended mainly for children and young people.

The Civil Guard has recovered from the seabed in the north of Mallorca a stock weighing about 350 kilograms that belongs to the anchor of a vessel from the Roman Empire era, dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, due to the risk of it being looted. Agents from the Special Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) moved the piece this Thursday, which was located at about three meters deep in an area near the coast, to a new location to ensure its protection.

Plaça del Fossar in Sineu, November 2003. Thousands of people watch the satirical performance of the wedding between Maria Antònia Munar and Jaume Matas, a symbol of the political alliance that drives an unprecedented transformation of Mallorca's road network. Munar's Council road plan projects an island turned into a giant Scalextric and ignites one of the most intense periods of social mobilization in recent history. Sineu becomes the epicenter of the opposition to the Inca-Manacor motorway, an infrastructure that threatens to mutilate the Pla region. At the same time, another slogan begins to be heard: 'No to the second beltway'.

The presentation a few days ago of the new section of Palma's second ring road recalled, as ARABalears explains, those times indelible in our memory of the “Majorcan-style roads” of Maria Antònia Munar. Works presented with good canapés, marquees and, above all, a lot of nerve. Because they intended to make citizens believe that laying more asphalt was solving mobility.

The Consell de Mallorca has rectified and reactivated the youth mental health program Flip Up after the entity 3 Salut Mental reported that an administrative processing error had prevented its continuity this academic year. The island institution has announced that the program will return to classrooms between late September and early October of the 2026-2027 academic year.

The Minister of Tourism of the Council of Mallorca, Guillem Ginard, believes it is time to form a "common front, setting aside party acronyms" to decide on "the main gateway for passengers and tourists to Mallorca," the Son Sant Joan airport. He requests this, he said, to "reach an agreement for the good of an island that has limits and limited natural resources."

The opposition parties in the Council of Mallorca, the PSIB-PSOE and MÉS per Mallorca, harshly criticize the project for phase I of the second ring road made public this Wednesday. The Council of Mallorca announced in 2024 an initial project for phase I of the second ring road in Palma valued at 110 million euros. The president of the island institution, Llorenç Galmés, appeared this Wednesday accompanied by the president of the Government and the mayor of Palma to present the definitive project, which has been budgeted at 350 million euros.

A new road –the first section of the second ring road– is the Mallorca Council's recipe to alleviate the traffic collapse suffered by the access routes to Palma. It is an action “of great social consensus”, according to the island institution, with a projected cost of 350 million euros that must continue the dual carriageway of the Ma-30 between the Manacor road and the Llucmajor motorway. The project has gained in ambition, budget, and execution time compared to what Galmés himself presented in the year 2024. The works will be divided into two phases, valued respectively at 90 and 260 million euros, and the Council plans to execute them partially simultaneously to reduce their total duration, which between the two phases adds up to six years and two months of work. The president of the Council, Llorenç Galmés, announced this Wednesday that the first phase will begin to be executed before the end of the year, while the technical managers have set the start of the works in 2027, once the processing and the public information period have been completed.

The PSOE and MÉS per Mallorca have criticized that the mental health program Flip Up. Turn your emotions around will not continue this school year due to "an error in the administrative processing" by the Council of Mallorca. The cancellation leaves more than 4,000 Vocational Training students without this resource and also puts at risk the jobs of the professionals from the entity 3 Salut Mental who develop the program.

More than 4,000 vocational training students in Mallorca will be left without the emotional well-being promotion and mental health prevention program 'Flip Up. Turn your emotions around' this school year due to "an error in the administrative processing" by the Council of Mallorca, according to the Mental Health Federation. The situation also implies the loss of jobs for the professionals from 3 Salut Mental linked to the project.

The Council of Mallorca recognized 27 people and entities on Saturday with the 2026 Awards, Honors and Distinctions at a gala held at the Principal Theatre of Palma on the occasion of the Mallorca Day. Among the most prominent distinctions, Rels B was named Favorite Son; Concha Buika, Favorite Daughter, and Michael Douglas, Adoptive Son of Mallorca.

The Council of Mallorca has on its table a report from the General Intervention, the highest auditing body of the institution. It uncovers a presumed unjust enrichment of 41.4 million euros by Tirme, the waste concessionaire. Faced with the financial scandal, the response of the Galmés government has been to announce a new audit that is “more extensive and more powerful”.