When at the end of 2015 Rosa Sureda Jaume decided to take over the old neighborhood store, Walt Disney, in Berard square, she was a novice in the art of managing customers. “I was very shy at first, and I felt a lot of embarrassment… not anymore!”. Renamed Botiga Sa Placeta, the present and future of local commerce do not seem to be numbered in Sa Torre.

A 43-year-old man died Tuesday afternoon while working in Ibiza. According to the Santa Eulària Town Hall, the accident, which occurred while he was cutting down a tree, was reported around 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The worker fell from a height of approximately 12 meters while pruning. Local police from Santa Eulària, paramedics, and the Civil Guard, who are in charge of the investigation, were dispatched to the scene in Can Furnet.

These weren't the best of times: it was the era of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. Even so, it was then that Llorenç Bisbal, a shoemaker who would later become mayor of Palma, insisted on uniting the various workers' associations of Mallorca under a common acronym: the General Union of Workers (UGT). That was in the now-defunct Casa del Pueblo (People's House) in Palma on October 4, 1925, one hundred years ago.

A 56-year-old man died while working this Tuesday in Santa Margalida. According to sources from the Mallorca Fire Department, the accident occurred in an industrial warehouse of a construction materials factory, especially concrete, located at 10 Clavet Street in the municipality.

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has upheld the decision of a labor court in Palma to reject a work transfer to Alicante Airport, in order to care for his sick parents, requested by an Aena employee who works as a firefighter at the Son Bonet airfield (Marratxí).

Unemployment fell by 10,500 people in the third quarter in the Balearic Islands to 41,200, a 20.3% decrease compared to the previous quarter, according to data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) published by the National Statistics Institute (INE).