Carles Buxadé was two years old when his aunts, Daria and Mercè Buxadé, embarked at 22 and 18 years of age at the port of Barcelona with Captain Alberto Bayo's expedition. He keeps a vague memory of it, but enough to have dedicated decades of his life to searching for the truth about the cruel fate of those two women whom he never saw again. “Obviously, he was very small, but he remembers seeing them get onto an open truck with many other women, approximately ten of them,” relates his daughter, Ann.

The group leader, Neus Barceló, asks for silence. The courtyard at 35 Nou Street in Manacor is packed. There is a rehearsal and only a few days left until one of the most important performances of the human tower season in Mallorca: the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Al·lots de Llevant. A test run of a human tower intended for the square is being performed, and everyone needs maximum concentration.

Belkacem Bouchouala Azirar attends to a woman who wants to charge her mobile phone while a couple has just entered to pick up a package. In just over two minutes, the shop, located on Avinguda del Torrent in Manacor, suddenly fills up. It is hot inside and there is only one ceiling fan to try to combat the humidity. "Do you think that, if I earned all that money they say, I would work every day in an internet cafe?", he reflects.

The National Police arrested a third man this Monday allegedly related to the arson of a home in Manacor and death threats against its residents, in a case that investigators link to a possible revenge for an economic debt.

A joint inspection between agents of the National Police in Manacor and the Housing Inspection Service of the Government of the Balearic Islands, from the Ministry of Housing, Territory and Mobility, has located a dwelling where up to 30 people were living together, in a house in a precarious and still unfinished state, and which therefore did not offer optimal or safe conditions for people to live in.

The National Police and the Government's Housing Inspection Service have detected an overcrowded and precarious dwelling in Manacor where, according to the occupants, up to 30 people had lived together at certain times.

The torrent that crosses Manacor is an inherent part of the city's history and misfortunes, and there is even an entire avenue named after it. A 'lifelong' flood-prone area that residents fear, just as they are already accustomed to it and have learned to live with the periodic risk of a possible flash flood like the one that caused disaster in September 1989, 37 years ago. What has taken the City Council by surprise now is the confirmation that the diversion created deliberately outside the urban center, between 1994 and 2004, is not working properly and leaves a third of Manacor in a flood risk zone.

Joan Oliver Roig (Manacor, 2002) Cosijoan, is a rapper and History of Art student. Red cap from Manacor and Majorica pearl necklace. He has just released his first album Morir d'èxit, a real declaration of intent for a work that starts melodically but ends up being incredibly raw. He presents it next Saturday, September 12th, at Sa Factoria in Manacor.

The Manacor City Council will assume the organization of the municipality's participation in the Pujada a Lluc a peu de la Part Forana, which reaches its 45th edition. After the attempted implementation of the new organizational model promoted by the Consell de Mallorca, the Manacor City Council has had to take the lead to directly address the needs of the people of Manacor and ensure they can participate, for another year and free of charge, in this deeply rooted event in Mallorca.

Hundreds of dead fish and thousands more at risk. This is the scene that the Riuet de l’Illot, a wetland located between the municipalities of Manacor and Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, has left this weekend. The recent rains and strong winds, which particularly affected the coast of Manacor between Thursday and Friday, have washed dirt and debris into the Riuet, adding to the sewage discharges that still occur in the area.

About seventy residents demonstrated in front of the Manacor City Council with banners and shouts of ‘No Macro-farm’ just before the ordinary plenary session of July. During the session, the plenary approved a motion presented jointly by the governing team (MÉS-Esquerra, PSOE and AIPC) and the PP against macro-farms in Mallorca.The affected neighbours left the plenary session happy. The motion, generic and which does not explicitly mention the toponym of Son Brau at any time, nor the company Avícola Son Perot, which is the one that wants to build this farm of 80,000 laying hens, was approved, with the only votes against from Vox. They asked for a statement from all parties, who showed themselves, with more or less vagueness and with more or less arguments, contrary to “intensive exploitations like this one”.Avícola Son Perot has presented a project that seeks to comply with the provisions established by law 2/2025, approved, precisely, to prevent the construction of a mega-farm by this same company in the municipality of Sineu with a load of 800,000 chickens.In fact, Avícola Son Perot also owns the Llucmajor mega-farm, sadly known as 'the farm of horrors', after images of the interior of the facilities were leaked showing that the animals are in "deplorable conditions". "Live hens coexist with dozens of carcasses in different states of decomposition, including skeletons and other animals, such as rats (alive or poisoned) and hedgehogs, expired fire extinguishers and containers with carcasses in a state of putrefaction and full of worms" an informant who allegedly took the images told a media outlet. Avícola Son Perot received a fine of 200,000 euros for the conditions of the facilities.Now, the company presents itself as a modern entity adapted to the times and current law. But we must have memory and remember what actions it has carried out previously.Meanwhile, there are many questions that our representatives in the City Council could answer. Why, despite the verbal agreement that the government team had with the representatives of the Macrogranja No platform, did the motion finally have to be presented urgently? Did they have doubts about the advisability of presenting it?Why does the motion speak exclusively of mega-farms and not mention the concept of 'farm' at all? Is this absence intentional? Does the fact that the farm planned in Son Brau is for 80,000 chickens, ten times less than the load projected in Sineu, have anything to do with it? Is the one they are now asking to build in Manacor really considered a mega-farm?

Manacor wants to end growing incivility and prevent waste and bulky items from ending up abandoned out of place. For this reason, the City Council has just spent almost 112,000 euros on the construction of four contribution points in different areas of the municipality. They are a kind of wooden and iron cages, 12 meters long, enclosed, with access only for residents, and video-surveilled all day long.

The National Police has arrested a man in Manacor as the alleged perpetrator of a serious threats offense after he presented himself at the courts and asked to speak with a judge to send him to prison. According to his statement, he had been looking for his ex-partner for ten days with the intention of killing her, but had not located her.

"It cannot be said yet, but it will be presented soon". This has been one of the most repeated phrases in recent hours by different members of the PP of Manacor when asked about Jaume Mut. Without officially confirming it, the Populars have corroborated with smiles and knowing gestures that the football coach will be their candidate for the mayoralty of Manacor in the municipal elections of May 2027.

Talking about Rafel Muntaner Morey, Coca, is to talk about almost a century through Manacor life. Mayor, printer, cinephile, president of TV Manacor, a man linked to Perles Manacor — both in the basketball section and in underwater fishing — promoter of the skyscraper in Plaça de la Bassa and manager of Cine Goya for a decade. The politician of "put a furrow between the eyebrows" was a polyhedral, impulsive and active man until his last years.

In Manacor, the Na Molla park, the place recommended by the City Council just 300 meters from the urban center, has been filled with people to contemplate the solar eclipse in a familiar and relaxed way. An hour before, many had taken advantage of this green esplanade located next to IES Manacor, to set up their own camp, with chairs, tables, and something to snack on, in order to prepare for the phenomenon.

The Governing Council has authorized Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM) a sum of 6,176,705.09 euros (VAT included) to build a new double-track section between Petra and Manacor, which will mean being able to increase frequencies between Manacor and Palma.

L’Auba, the property of the Majorcan painter and sculptor Joan Riera Ferrari, is back on sale. It is offered at a reduced price and with the possibility of being acquired "with all the author's memories and furniture", according to the note accompanying the real estate advertisement, which sets the price at 750,000 euros, 16% less than what was previously asked. The property, with 670 square meters built, six bedrooms and parking, is located near the Bandrís road, the slaughterhouse, and the municipal treatment plant. In fact, it was already put up for sale a few years ago, shortly after the artist's death, in May 2017.

Some time ago I went to a party full of people from Manacor with a friend from out of town. A guy who wanted to meet her asked her to repeat “What color is Saint James’ white horse?” This apparently harmless phrase is a shibboleth, a formula that characterizes members of a linguistic group because it repeats a sound unknown to speakers of another language or dialect. Curiously, the word ‘xibòlet’ comes from the Bible, from the book of Judges, in which it is explained how forty-two thousand Ephraimites died for not being able to pronounce like our ‘x’ the initial consonant of the word, which they emitted as an ‘s’, which differentiated them from the rest of the Hebrews.

Being able to swim again in the Manacor municipal pool will still take time, but the City Council has already taken a decisive step to recover the facility. The municipal plenary session has approved the agreement with the bankruptcy administration of Esquitxos de Blavor SL, the former concessionaire, which will allow the Consistory to regain full rights to the sports space.