The Business Association of Nightlife (AEON) has reported the Pikes hotel to the Consell d'Eivissa and the Sant Antoni City Council for alleged urban planning violations and has requested both institutions to carry out inspections to verify activity licenses.

The Business Association of Nightlife (AEON) has filed a complaint against the Pikes hotel with the Consell d'Eivissa and the Sant Antoni City Council for alleged urban planning violations and has requested inspections from both institutions to verify activity licenses.

A suspected homophobic assault on a vendor at the Mercat de Pere Garau has generated indignation and a wave of support for the victim. The events reportedly occurred last week, when a fruit and vegetable merchant was allegedly assaulted by those responsible for another stall in the same market.

The debate on the situation of healthcare in the Balearic Islands has reached the Parliament of the Balearic Islands this week, but the statements made during the session have generated a response from Doctors of the World. The organization has denounced that erroneous ideas about healthcare for the migrant population have been disseminated and has warned that some interventions are based on “falsities” or ignorance of reality.

The owner of the shack advertised a few weeks ago on a rural property in María de la Salud for €700 has been reported to the Civil Guard for three serious offenses. According to sources from the Seprona (Nature Protection Service) on Wednesday, investigators became aware of the advertisement after it was published in the ARA Baleares newspaper and were struck by the high price, given the context of the structure.

The ANACA platform (New Agreement for the Alcúdia Cable) has once again questioned the Alcúdia City Council's handling of the PENBAL-2 electrical interconnection project, warning of a lack of transparency and technical consistency at crucial stages of the process. According to the organization, which brings together residents and community groups from the municipality, these shortcomings are particularly evident in the available documentation and in the way the local administration has responded to the route change proposed by Red Eléctrica de España (REE). This project, intended to strengthen the electrical interconnection between the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, has been the subject of public and administrative debate in recent months, with a route agreement involving various institutions, including the Alcúdia City Council. In ANACA's opinion, clear and accessible information has not been provided to all parties involved. Two views on transparency

In a recent statement, ANACA highlighted several points of contention: from the absence of key documents such as the minutes of the working group meetings, to alleged modifications of technical documents published on the municipal website that were supposedly not explained. According to the platform, this prevents citizens from rigorously evaluating the decisions made. Meanwhile, the Alcúdia City Council has responded on several occasions denying these accusations. It asserted that the route was technically agreed upon with REE (Red Eléctrica de España), the Balearic Government, the Council of Mallorca, neighborhood representatives, and the local administration, and that no information was deliberately concealed. The City Council even filed a complaint with the Civil Guard regarding what it considers unfounded accusations against its integrity. This confrontation highlights that, despite announcements of a "broad and negotiated" agreement, a significant discrepancy persists between institutions and neighborhood groups regarding what has been published, what has been processed, and what information is actually accessible. Criticism from several fronts

ANACA not only questions the City Council's transparency, but also the territorial coherence of the chosen option, which they consider technically obsolete and socially illegitimate, especially after changes in local energy and territorial conditions, such as the planned closure of the Murterar thermal power plant and the new public uses of municipal land that are due. Added to this are other criticisms from the residents' group, such as the potential incompatibility between the cable route and municipal infrastructure projects, such as the Bonaire and Mal Pas sewage systems, something that, according to ANACA, was ignored in the joint planning.

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A worker at the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) has decided to go public with his situation after a year he describes as a professional and personal ordeal, marked—according to his complaint—by episodes of harassment, disciplinary sanctions without clear grounds, and a complete lack of institutional support. The case, which dates back to 2024, has resulted in the worker undergoing psychological treatment due to what he describes as a suffocating work environment. In this context, he recounts that in May of last year, a disciplinary file was opened against him, leading to his suspension and a significant loss of income, a decision he directly attributes to the management of the center where he worked. According to him, throughout the entire process, he was not provided with conclusive evidence or full access to the file documentation, which he considers a violation of his most basic rights as a public employee.

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A temporary civil servant with the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council of Mallorca) has filed a criminal complaint in the Palma courts against several officials of the island institution and against the company Quirón, whom she accuses of alleged crimes of administrative misconduct and disclosure of secrets within the framework of a disciplinary proceeding opened against her for a supposed conflict of interest. The complaint is directed against Quirón's legal representative, the company itself, the island director of Public Service, the technical secretary of the Presidency – who acted as the investigating officer in the disciplinary proceedings – and the Consell de Mallorca as a legal entity. According to the document, the events date back to April 2024, when the Council initiated disciplinary proceedings against the civil servant, head of the Sports Medicine Service, for alleged breaches of working hours and for simultaneously providing services to both the Council and Quirón without having requested authorization. The plaintiff maintains that the proceedings are arbitrary and selective, alleging that other professionals in the same field have faced similar situations without being sanctioned. One of the central points of the complaint is how, during the investigation, the Administration allegedly obtained specially protected data without consent, such as the employee's work history report and social security contribution record, through the General Treasury of Social Security. The defense argues that this action not only violates data protection regulations but could also have criminal implications. The complaint also alleges the transfer of personal information to Quirón without the affected party's authorization or legal basis. This information allegedly includes a report from a private investigator hired by the Council itself to monitor the civil servant. According to the complaint, the data in this report was used by Quirón to justify the employee's dismissal, and the dismissal letter, according to the defense, reproduces details of the surveillance verbatim.

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A waiter at a well-known bar in Arenal, frequented by German tourists, has been fired and has revealed in a labor lawsuit, to which ARA Baleares has had access, that the establishment allegedly had an under-the-table payment system. The bar worker has filed a lawsuit with the Labor Court seeking moral damages and requesting that the dismissal be declared null and void or, alternatively, unfair. According to his account, the company dismissed him as part of a "strategy" to halt the unionization process among the staff, as he planned to promote union elections representing the UGT (General Union of Workers). According to the affected worker, shortly before receiving his dismissal letter, members of management made a threatening comment about a relative of his, a well-known union member on the island, which—he maintains—demonstrates their awareness of the union activity that was developing within the company.

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A message sent to a Telegram group has resulted in a complaint in Ibiza. The Civil Guard has filed a report against a woman for sharing the location of a police checkpoint on the EI-200 road, in the municipality of Santa Eulària, a practice that can carry very high fines. The incident occurred last Sunday when Civil Guard officers in Santa Eulària were conducting a vehicle and pedestrian checkpoint. During the operation, they stopped a car occupied by two women who, after being identified, continued on their way as normal. A few minutes later, the officers noticed a sudden drop in traffic on that stretch of road and observed several vehicles diverting onto a parallel local road, behavior that aroused suspicion. Given this situation, they discovered a Telegram group that allegedly shares information about traffic incidents and checkpoints on the island's roads.

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The Platform of People Affected by the Selection Process for the Guardianship and Support Service for Adults of the Balearic Foundation for Dependency (FBD) publicly denounced on Tuesday the alleged existence of serious irregularities in the competitive examination called to fill staff positions corresponding to public offers 2 of 2 and 2. According to a statement released by the group, the selection process – published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) on March 6 – violates the principles of ability, merit, and legal certainty, with direct consequences for both the applicants and the functioning of a public service they consider essential. The Guardianship and Support Service, responsible for complying with court orders, is currently, according to the platform, under severe strain, with high staffing levels and a high degree of complexity. In this context, they denounce that the deficiencies in the selection process jeopardize the continuity and quality of care for service users.

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A career civil servant driver has filed a lawsuit against Prohens' chief of staff, the Minister of the Presidency, the director of the Balearic School of Public Administration (EBAP), and the driver who allegedly obtained the position of personal driver for the President of the Government fraudulently. According to the lawsuit for alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling, filed last September and obtained by ARA Baleares, the affected career civil servant, who entered the public administration through competitive examinations more than twenty years ago, is accused by members of the aforementioned Presidency driver's office of hiring someone with no prior driving experience.

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The Association for a New Agreement for the Alcúdia Cable (ANACA) has stated that, despite the recently announced information, they have not received any notification of a complaint from the City Council. In a statement, ANACA insisted that they are therefore unaware of the content, scope, or procedural status of this complaint. It should be recalled that the City Council announced it would sue ANACA for suggesting in a press release that the cable route was changed to benefit family members. However, the group has asserted that the press release does not mention any names or identify any political representative. The reference included in that press release, they added, comes exclusively from the official documentation published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on September 27, 2024, which contains the complete list of plots affected by the initial route. "This is an objective and verifiable fact, not a personal accusation," they pointed out.

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The Court of Instruction Number 1 of Manacor has ordered the provisional dismissal of the case opened against the mayor of Felanitx, Catalina Soler (Popular Party), in connection with a complaint filed by a local police officer accusing her of resistance, disobedience, and threats during an incident last July. According to the court order, the court considers that it has not been sufficiently proven that Soler committed any crime, and therefore has decided to provisionally dismiss the case. The complaint, which had generated some controversy in the municipality, stemmed from a personal and professional conflict between the mayor and one of the local police officers, after the officer wrote an internal report stating that Soler had threatened him during the Portocolom Wine Festival last July.

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The GOB (Balearic Ornithological Group) has filed a complaint with the European Commission against the land acquisition and administrative simplification laws passed by the government of Marga Prohens, alleging they "violate European environmental law and the Water Framework Directive." According to the organization, these regulations represent "a complete break with European environmental law and jeopardize the islands' basic natural resources, especially water, an overexploited and fundamental resource in the context of the climate crisis." The complaint was formally registered earlier this week and is directed against the Balearic Islands' regional government and the Spanish government. With this action, as explained by GOB spokesperson Margalida Ramis, this completes "the legal and institutional offensive that the GOB has launched in recent months against the decrees and laws of the Prohens government that profoundly interfere in territorial and urban planning without adequate guarantees of participation, environmental oversight, and respect for regional powers." It is worth noting that in recent months the organization has already filed two appeals with the Constitutional Court and onecomplaint before the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), an advisory body to UNESCO, regarding the effects on the Tramuntana mountain range. "It is the final, decisive, and strong push," he emphasized.

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The Caminando Fronteras collective has accused the National Police of preventing two women from reporting the disappearance of a relative while trying to reach Mallorca by boat. This was stated by the head of the NGO and human rights defender, Helena Maleno, in a message posted on her X account.

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The Japanese restaurant Wakame Ibiza has announced legal action against the customer who reported on social media about being charged €12 for using the coat rack. The establishment is demanding the removal of the posts, a public rectification, and compensation of €36,000 for damages, with the possibility of an increase if the negative effects persist.

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It was the final blow to Franco's censorship—the dictator died only a few months later—although it continued during the Transition and until the consolidation of democracy. Fifty years ago, in August 1975, the Mallorcan magazine Court It was seized under a law—the Fraga Law of 1966, named after its author, then-Minister Manuel Fraga—that supposedly granted greater freedom to the media. However, it also provided for repression if they published anything the regime disliked. It was the only case of a Mallorcan publication seized by the dictatorship, and the incident resonated throughout Spain.

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