Esteve Sureda, spokesperson for Vox in Manacor, leaves no one indifferent. Not even those in his own party. If two months ago the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel LeSenne, chose Sureda as a guide to speak out against people and groups trying to make a living with businesses like barbershops and stores on certain city avenues, now it has been the spokesperson for the far-right party also in Parliament, Manuel Cañadas, who has traveled to Portocristo to speak face-to-face with Sureda.

The Manacor City Council has formally conveyed to the Ben Amics association its willingness to host the Pride celebration in the municipality, after learning of the cancellation of the festival planned in Palma. The council has followed this situation with concern and believes that, at a time like the present, “drawing back is not an option”. 

He did his military service with little enthusiasm. He studied Systems Informatics at the UIB. At 15 years old, he became so passionate about volleyball that, when he was already living in Palma, he would return to Manacor once a week to train. At only fourteen months old, he already spoke clearly. He wasn't one of those children who get tangled up with their words: he quickly developed the ability to express himself with precision. Joana Gomila, mother of the mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver Gomila, tells us this. It's hard to get words out of Joana. At the end of the conversation, she reveals why: “A mother always speaks well of her children. What else are we going to say? And I… I don't just want to praise him.” There will be some, but not that many.

That the plenary sessions of the Manacor City Council are something else is a fact demonstrable with the videos that the council itself uploads each month to its Youtube channel. It is clear that like any good ‘show’, the plenary session has politically boring and administrative procedural moments; but it has others, especially when it comes to the turn of requests and questions, where the emotion skyrockets (and often goes crazy).

Cales de Mallorca, the main hotel and therefore tourist area of the municipality of Manacor, has been demanding urban planning reception for decades. Born in the 60s as a private promotion of apartments and hotels to meet the demand of the first sun and beach boom, it has since incorporated a stable population that, despite paying taxes and fees for municipal services, receives almost no maintenance in return.

The City Council and the management teams of the public and state-subsidized schools in Manacor were put out of play when the Ministry of Education informed them that the municipality, until now divided into four school zoning areas (Manacor, Portocristo, Son Macià, and l’Illot), would become a single zone, as is the case in the rest of Mallorca's municipalities except for four: Calvià, Andratx, Selva, and Santa Margalida.

Manacor will this year recognize the trajectory of Joves de Mallorca per la Llengua as part of the School of Mallorquí Merit Awards, which will take place on June 11. An award that “aims to be a tribute to more than three decades of work, and for this reason we will fill the Manacor Auditorium to recognize this tireless work for our own language and culture,” states the mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, who recalls that on the 11th there will be a show created especially for this milestone.

The mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver; the delegate for Education of the City Council, Ferran Montero, and the municipal technician for Education met this Monday afternoon with the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, to request explanations about the implementation of the single school zone in the municipality.

The mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, the delegate for Education of the City Council, Ferran Montero, and the municipal technician for Education, met this Monday afternoon with the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, to request explanations about the implementation of the single school zone in the municipality.

It's one of Portocristo's most recognizable sights. And, at the same time, curiously, one of its least known. The large villa at the top of the Blau coast (officially Bordils Street) has been abandoned for years in the middle of a private pine forest, under the watchful eyes of locals and tourists on their way down to the beach.

The delay in the construction of the new Manacor Health Center is no longer just an administrative issue: it has become one of the main sources of institutional pressure on the regional government. Mayor Miquel Oliver met with the Minister of Health, Manuela García Romero, to demand solutions to a healthcare situation he describes as "unsustainable" across the Levante region. The meeting comes after the Ministry of Health rejected the plot of land allocated in 2022 for the new facility, following a report from the Water Resources Department that places it in an area of ​​preferential water flow. According to the City Council, this decision adds "an unacceptable delay" to a facility considered crucial for managing population growth and alleviating pressure on healthcare services.

The Manacor City Council has approved changes to the water rates for water supplied by SAM, the municipal company responsible for its management. The new, more socially oriented system will offer discounts on bills for, for example, large families, single-parent families, families with a dependent person, or families with a victim of gender-based violence. Thus, the City Council is establishing a system of consumption blocks from now on, in order to implement progressive tariffs and "so that those who consume more pay more," explained the Councilor for the Environment and President of the Board of Directors of SAM, Sebastià Llodrà, who recalled that water prices have not been touched since the population changed.

Until now, abandoning or surrendering a pet in the municipality of Manacor was free of charge for the owner, and the collection and care of the animal were paid for exclusively by the City Council. Now, however, with the modification of the municipal ordinance, things are changing, and the responsible party will have to pay a series of fees. This week, the Manacor City Council approved an urgent update to the animal welfare ordinance, "which was outdated and did not reflect the real cost of the procedure," explains the Councilor for the Environment, Mateu Marcé.

There will be no underwater reef at the entrance to the port of Portocristo. The underwater museum with replicas of old ships, intended to attract cultural and adventure tourism to the town, has been definitively scrapped. This was announced on Monday by the Tourism Delegate of the Manacor City Council, Júlia Acosta, who, after several meetings, decided to abandon the initial project with a budget of two million euros, which was touted during the previous legislative term as the municipality's major investment using European funds.

The motion presented by Vox The proposal to prohibit anyone with their face covered from entering municipal premises, an initiative that the far-right group also presented to the town halls of Felanitx and Sa Pobla with the intention of banning items such as the burka and the niqab, ended this Monday with a heated debate between the Vox spokesperson, Esteve Sureda; the PP spokesperson, Maria Antònia Sansó and the mayor of Manacor from Més-Esquerra, Miquel Oliver, who accused them of being racist.

The Manacor City Council on Tuesday criticized the Balearic Islands Government for taking almost four years to reject land ceded by the Council for the construction of a new health center. Mayor Miquel Oliver expressed the municipal government's "deep surprise and unease" at a decision that comes late and, he claims, contradicts the criteria and reports that had previously supported the project. The Government's rejection was communicated following an unfavorable report from the Directorate General of Water Resources, which concluded that the plot on Paseo del Ferrocarril – ceded in 2022 – is located in a preferential water flow zone, thus preventing the continuation of the process. However, the City Council points out that both the Ministry of Health and the Directorate General of Water Resources had previously issued favorable reports, in addition to the flood risk study included in the current General Plan.

Finally, the municipal swimming pool in Manacor is the source of some good news. After being closed for almost five years by court order while the bankruptcy proceedings and various lawsuits filed by the concessionaire against the City Council were resolved, the facility will be back under the control of the local administration within 15 days. This was announced on Monday by the head of the City Council's sports department, Llorenç Mesquida, who confirmed that the Council will have to pay €64,696.57 to activate the reversion agreement, at which point the process will begin for Manacor to regain ownership. "Today is an important day. We are very pleased to have signed the agreement." Now, for the next few days, an external company will conduct an audit to determine the exact condition of both the building and the equipment in order to issue a report outlining improvements, renovations, and costs. This will be useful for the future concession that the City Council will put out to tender again "as soon as possible," which will include any renovations to be amortized within an agreed-upon timeframe. Mesquida also confirmed that the Manacor municipal swimming pool will reopen in 2026. "The intention is to put the concession out to tender so that the procedures allow us to open this year," although everything suggests it will be after summer and ready to start the autumn-winter season. The concession for the municipal swimming pool was awarded in 1997 for a period of 30 years, with the construction and operation of the facilities the responsibility of the concessionary company Esquitxos de Blavor SL. The works were completed in 1998, and for more than two decades, the pool served the community. Until 2021, when, after several disagreements between the City Council and the concessionaire for the maintenance of the facility, Esquitxos filed for bankruptcy and closed the swimming pools.

The Vox spokesperson in Manacor, Esteve Sureda (Manacor, 1977), recently took to the streets accompanied by the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, on a tour that the party presented as a warning about the "worrying Islamization" of the municipality. With an almost urban safari-like feel, they toured the streets of the capital of the Levante region to "glimpse" a reality that the far right considers threatening.

The municipal park will no longer be called the municipal park... or not only that. The Manacor City Council has already decided what name it will give to the space, which in the late 1960s ceased to be the municipal cemetery (which was definitively moved to the current Son Coletes location) to become a recreational area for everyone, where outdoor swimming pools and a multi-purpose building were later built in 1985. From now on, it will be called the Rector's Garden. This decision was made by the City Council, which consulted several experts in toponymy to try to find the original name of the space according to existing documentation. This will also be the name that will appear on the sign at the new entrance that will be built to replace the one that was recently demolished. A self-weathering steel sheet will be used, into which the letters will be cut to ensure they are clearly visible from the outside and will be illuminated at night.

An 18-year-old man died early this morning in Manacor After the roof of their bedroom collapsed, a 12-year-old boy was trapped under the rubble of a house where he and his brother were sleeping. According to the Emergency Medical Service (SAMU 061), the two brothers were trapped under the debris. Two other people, the boys' parents, were also in the house at the time, but they were unharmed as their bedroom was in another part of the house.