The Balearic Islands ended 2025 with 101,608 self-employed workers, the highest figure ever recorded in the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA). In the last year, this group grew by 2,126 people, a 2.1% increase compared to December 2024, confirming the upward trend in self-employment in the archipelago. This growth is unevenly distributed among the islands, with Mallorca accounting for nearly 79% of the self-employed, with 76,001 professionals. It is followed by Menorca, with 14,102 members; Ibiza, with 7,612; and Formentera, with 928. This snapshot demonstrates the significant role of the self-employed group throughout the islands and their crucial contribution to the local economy.

On this straight, arrow-shaped line that is life, any invitation to stop and look back becomes a disturbing experience. We rush so fast toward the future that we forget it's with that same speed that we move away from the present and leave the past behind. And I no longer know if it's deliberate: to avoid having time to consider whether we've made a mistake, because we don't know exactly who we are or what we want, for fear of having taken the wrong shortcut at some point and not knowing how to retrace our steps. Or perhaps this is the only pace to get there. The fact is, at least for me, my relationship with time is becoming increasingly dysfunctional.

The Immersive Archive of Local Voices educational project, promoted by the Image and Sound department of the Junípero Serra Integrated Vocational Training Center (CIFP), allows students to actively participate in the preservation, documentation, and dissemination of the oral and sound history of the region. The initiative seeks to "record the present before it becomes the past," combining technical training with ethical reflection and fieldwork. This week, the project brought together professionals from the museum and fishing sectors to reflect on the importance of conserving tangible and intangible heritage and documenting living memory in a context of social and environmental change. On Monday, the first round table discussion took place with the participation of Toni Vich, director of the Marratxí Clay Museum; Aina Ferrero, director of the Inca Footwear and Industry Museum; and technician and professor Biel Company. The session addressed the cataloging of collections, heritage custody, and the social role of local museums.

The Memoria de Mallorca association has sent a letter to the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, to alert you to the shortcomings in educational curricula regarding the Second Republic, the Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition to Democracy. The letter seeks to urge you to promote a national education law that guarantees the mandatory inclusion of the historical periods between the proclamation of the Second Republic and the Transition to Democracy in the secondary and high school curricula of all autonomous communities.