<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - mobilizations]]> 10 <![CDATA[The healthcare transport of the Balearic Islands calls for mobilizations to claim pending salaries]]>

Healthcare transport workers in the Balearic Islands have announced new mobilizations during this month of April to demand payment of various pending salary increases and the updating of payrolls. The call comes after the USO union denounced accumulated non-payments at the public company Gestión Sanitaria y Asistencial de las Islas Baleares (GSAIB).

]]> <![CDATA[Veterinarians return to the offensive against the drug law after a year of implementation]]>

The veterinarians of the Balearic Islands They continue to demand changes to the new regulations governing prescription medications. Despite the modifications made by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, almost a year after the regulations came into effect, the Official College of Veterinarians of the Balearic Islands (COVIB) believes they are "not enough" and that "work must continue to fully adapt the law to the realities of clinical practice." Therefore, COVIB will support the demonstration called for this Wednesday in Madrid by the Veterinary Professional Organization (OCV) to highlight the ongoing discontent within the sector. Attendees will demand a real reduction in the bureaucratic burden of the system that controls veterinary antibiotic prescriptions (Presvet), greater flexibility in the use of antimicrobials based on clinical criteria, and a review of the medication transfer mechanism, among other demands.

]]> <![CDATA[Mallorca will mobilize for peace this Friday at various points across the island.]]>

Palma, Sóller, Artà, and Inca are the locations chosen by the organization to hold rallies against violence as part of the International Day of Peace. The event, organized by Mallorca for Peace, Mallorca for Palestine, Global Movement to Gaza, and the Mallorca Marches for Palestine, will take place this Friday, March 30, at 7:00 p.m.

]]> <![CDATA[The flowery garden that Menorca knows how to preserve]]> Menorca has taught us islanders many lessons. The most important is being able to find a territorial balance that today offers us a landscape, a harmonious economic activity, and a society focused on culture. It hasn't been as easy a path as it may seem, although it's true that maintaining agriculture and industry at higher percentages than the rest of the Balearic Islands, and not blindly embracing the combination of tourism and concrete, have been key. But decades ago, a series of political and social leaders saw that the threat of greed and easy money could send everything spiraling down the drain. And they created a true work of art, the fruit of much prior work: the 2003 Territorial Plan.

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