Vox Balears has filed an appeal against the resolution that includes the monolith of La Feixina, in Palma, in the census of Francoist symbols, a step that opens the door to its possible removal. The party has promoted this action, in which the municipal group in the Palma City Council, the parliamentary group and the party's structure in the Balearic Islands have coordinated.

Vox Balears has filed an appeal against the resolution that includes the sa Feixina monolith, in Palma, in the census of Francoist symbolism, a step that opens the door to its possible removal.

Aena's announcement to expand the aircraft parking platform at Son Bonet aerodrome has prompted an immediate response from MÉS per Marratxí and the PSOE of Marratxí, who reject any increase in airport activity and accuse the company of making decisions behind the municipality's back.

Porreras experienced a special weekend with the celebration of the Senior Citizens' Fair, an event that filled the town's streets with visitors from different parts of Mallorca. More than 4,000 people participated in this gathering, which has already established itself as one of the most prominent on the social calendar of the island's municipalities.

More than 30,000 undocumented immigrants in the Islands now have the possibility of emerging from invisibility. Since April 16, long queues at town halls have become the image of the extraordinary regularization promoted by the Spanish government. They have been preparing documentation for months, but until the last minute they did not know that they would also need a vulnerability certificate, and this partly explains the saturation of the system. "I don't understand why they want it, if all of us who are undocumented are vulnerable," reflects Abdou, a 32-year-old Senegalese. Despite this, the priority is clear. "Even if we have to lose work days: papers are papers," assures Khalid.

The extraordinary regularization process for migrant people promoted by the Spanish government is seen as a “historic” opportunity for tens of thousands of people in an irregular administrative situation in the Balearic Islands. However, jurists and legal professionals also warn of technical shortcomings and application difficulties that have generated uncertainty and occasional collapses in the first few days.

What are gardens that seem so much taken from Granada in the very heart of Palma, at the foot of the Almudaina and a few steps from the Born and the sea? And even more so when the elderly people of Ciutat still remember that right here, in Hort del Rei, there were the Líric theatre, the Alhambra hotel, the mythical Riskal café... The truth, however, is that with the demolition of those buildings, what had already been a green area in the Middle Ages was recovered, only this time it was not done for the enjoyment of a monarch, but for the entire citizenry – and tourists, of course. We recall the history of Hort del Rei as sixty years have passed since the project that the architect Gabriel Alomar Esteve made in 1966 and which envisaged the recovery of that space.

Located at the foot of the Tramuntana mountain range, 14 kilometers from Palma, at the beginning of the 20th century Esporles was known as the 'little Russia' of Mallorca. Its six textile factories had managed to forge a strong proletarian consciousness. The inauguration in 1930 of the Casa del Pueblo would be a reflection of that class pride. Already in the municipal elections of April 12, 1931, the municipality would be one of the few on the island where the left triumphed. Two days later, King Alfonso XIII departed into exile and the Second Republic was proclaimed.

April 25th is Saint Mark's Day, one of the most cherished festivities for lovers of consuming gastropod mollusks, generally known as snails. As the popular saying goes, “he who eats snails for Saint Mark's Day enjoys good health for free” and it is customary to eat them on this day. Some say that eating snails for Saint Mark's Day prevents being touched, that is, falling ill in one way or another. My great-grandmother used to eat one raw every year and she did well, until she was 93. In my town, they don't have snail feasts for Saint Mark's Day, but rather they are typical for the Cross, on May 3rd, a little later. This day is a big celebration in the Camarata neighborhood, and all the locals who have at least one leg go down to eat snails with family and friends.

The Consell de Mallorca has been the subject of criticism this Thursday after a stand dedicated to the exaltation of the Francoist military man Millán-Astray was set up within the framework of the Feria de la Gent Gran.

Ninth concert of the season for the Illes Balears Symphony Orchestra at the Auditorium of Ciutat, which began with the peculiar Concert for Birds and Orchestra, by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, under the direction of a conductor of enormous presence in every sense, the Norwegian Rune Bergmann. He was undoubtedly the one who turned the concert into a spectacle of dimensions that corresponded to his own. Just after the ornithological composition, the first major highlight of the program arrived, with pianist Olga Kern as the great protagonist, to perform the Piano and Orchestra Concerto in A minor op. 54, by Robert Schumann. The first movement began, with a very solid, somewhat rocky style, and a very firm pulse, from the decisive entry of the piano, with a martial and powerful succession of descending chords, to reach the polyhedral cadence of the finale, from where the coloratura of the composition increased, with as much precision as elegance. Her performance was raising the level and delicacy, as for example, with the Andantino grazioso, a delightful dialogue between the orchestra and the piano that, little by little, turned into a tender and subtle monologue of the solo instrument. Kern made clear her mastery and ability to suggest all this series of variations and styles that Schumann incorporated into the score, in a very novel way for its time. The soloist, once again, resumed the energetic tone of the beginning, in an impetuous third movement, when, all of a sudden, she established a delightful new dialogue, this time with the oboe, as a prelude to the exceptional final coda that can only be described as exceptional and which served the protagonist to receive the enthusiastic applause of the audience. As it should be and as everyone expected, there was an encore, first a Prelude, by Claude Debussy, which never disappoints or leaves one indifferent. Impeccable. And in response to the plea in the form of an ovation, another little gem, by Nikolai Myaskovsky, a piano arrangement by Joseph Horovitz.

Ninth concert of the season for the Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears at the Auditorium de Ciutat, which began with the peculiar , by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, under the baton of a conductor of enormous presence in every sense, the Norwegian Rune Bergmann. He was, without a doubt, the one who turned the concert into a spectacle of dimensions that correspond to his own. Immediately after the ornithological composition came the first main course of the program, with pianist Olga Kern as the great protagonist, to perform the Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54, by Robert Schumann. He began the first movement, with a very solid, somewhat rocky style, and a very firm pulse, from the decisive entry of the piano, with a martial and powerful succession of descending chords, until reaching the polyhedral cadence of the finale, from where the composition's coloratura increased, with as much precision as elegance. Her interpretation was raising the level and delicacy, as for example, with the Andantino grazioso, a fun dialogue between the orchestra and the piano that, little by little, turns into a tender and subtle monologue of the solo instrument. Kern made her mastery and ability to suggest all this series of variations and styles that Schumann incorporated into the score, in a very novel way at the time, clear. The soloist, once again, resumed the energetic tone of the beginning, in an impetuous third movement, when, suddenly, she established a delightful new dialogue, this time with the oboe, as an announcement of the exceptional final coda that can only be described as exceptional and which served the protagonist to receive the enthusiastic applause of the audience. As it should have been and as everyone expected, there was an encore, first a Prelude, by Claude Debussy, which never disappoints or leaves one indifferent. Impeccable. And before the ovation-like plea, another little gem, by Nikolai Myaskovsky, a piano arrangement by Joseph Horovitz.

The terraces of the Estudi General Lul·lià hosted on Thursday, April 24, at 6:00 PM a solar observation workshop that allowed participants to discover the Sun in a safe and guided way. The activity, titled Solar Observation at the Estudi General Lul·lià, was led by Pep Marcús and offered a practical approach to solar astronomy.

The acidic smell of vinegar wafted through the kitchen, cutting through the bitterness of the green beans and the aromas of boiled vegetables. I knew that when I sat down at the table, the ordeal would begin. Spring had burst, the pods were flowering and the beans grew tender and crisp, stuffed with small green pearls inside. There was always a small furrow or two of broad beans in the yard, and some days some of these fruits would arrive at our table in a formidable, unavoidable green bean dish.

MORE for Palma has denounced that more than 4,000 places in the city's summer sports camps are "blocked", a situation that, according to the sovereignist party, has left hundreds of families "abandoned to their fate" in the midst of family reconciliation planning.

The beautification of the old center of Sineu not only served to renew the image of the municipality and pacify some of the streets in the center, but also, during the works, it became a window to the past. The archaeological monitoring of the works helped to document structures and materials that now help to understand the urban evolution of the town, with a particularly significant finding in Fossar street, where indications of the Roman era and the early Middle Ages appeared.

A group of customers and the owner of the S’Ànnera Xafardera bar have filed cross-complaints over events that occurred on Friday afternoon at the establishment, which include accusations of insults, linguistic discrimination, attempts to leave without paying, and police intervention.

It has always been said that chocolates are a safe gift, that they never fail, that everyone likes them and that they are not very compromising. Except, of course, when inside the box there are not chocolates but banknotes. Then it is no longer a detail, it is a declaration of intentions. And quite vintage, by the way.

Friday, April 24, Pacha and Amnesia; Saturday, 25, Hï Ibiza; Sunday, 26, Ushuaïa and UNVRS; Monday, 27, DC-10... If you are expert clubbers you will have recognized the calendar ofopenings of the Ibizan clubs, a true marathon for party acrobats. Impossible to be at all of them. Or is it? “Most people go to at least two or three parties”, explains the manager of the Ocio de Ibiza association, José Luis Benítez. The trip to Ibiza has to be amortized. Most of the tickets have already been sold for weeks; in total, about 30,000 tickets, a figure that is also the total capacity of the Ibizan clubs. Yes, in Ibiza there can be about 30,000 people –legally– partying every day. This year, the clubs have once again anticipated the openings –traditionally they had always been in May– aware that they are the ones who kick off the Ibizan season. And it works: Iberia Express has had to put on 12 additional flights between Madrid and Ibiza due to the openings. The dancing machine will not stop until the first or second week of October; in case you are interested, the tickets for the closings are also on sale.

After more than two years of work, and more than a decade since the disappearance of Palma Photo, Mallorca PhotoFest has been born, a festival promoted by the association Art Palma Contemporani that will fill, until next August, about thirty exhibition venues throughout the island with contemporary photography proposals. “The long-term objective is to turn it into a benchmark where we can reflect on images, where we can foster critical thinking through photography. 100 years ago it was an unquestionable source of authority and trust, and now it is used to distort reality. We think it is necessary to reflect on this, that images should also serve us to draw conclusions about the world we live in”. This is how Xavier Fiol, director of the festival, defines it, who, together with the general coordinator, Montserrat Torras, and with the advice of Xisco Bonnín and Horacio Fernández, has shaped a program that includes exhibitions, talks, guided tours, a reading club dedicated to photobooks, and a film series that will take place during May at the Teatre Sa Societat in Calvià.

It is just another almond tree. One of the thousands scattered across the Mallorcan geography that have defined its landscape and, therefore, its culture and identity for centuries. Specifically, since the end of the 18th century. Filtered through Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955), however, it is many other things, without ceasing to be, precisely, an almond tree. It is a sculptural figure, which alludes to a human presence, perhaps the naked body of a woman, and at the same time it is a kind of zombie, an anonymous and forgotten vestige: a part of the remains left by the Xylella fastidiosa catastrophe in the Mallorcan countryside. It is a relic, and also a prophecy, which is difficult to distinguish whether it comes from the dream world or the real one.

Tica Font (Vall d’Uixó, 1956) is the president and researcher at the Delàs Centre for Peace Studies. A graduate in Physics from the University of Valencia, she has been director of the Catalan International Institute for Peace and president of the Catalan Federation of Peace NGOs. She is an expert in defense economics, arms trade, defense budgets, and the military industry. Font is one of the expert voices at the II Peace Conference organized by the Mallorca per la Pau platform and makes it clear that wars are a pretext for doing business.

Jorge Luis Borges dedicates a poem to Descartes titled 'Descartes' which is integrated into the poetry collection La xifra (1981), and in which he adopts the poetic voice of the philosopher himself and poetically meditates on dreams, the symbolic representation of Cartesian doubt, methodical doubt, and the metaphysical and epistemological consequences, as it affects both existence itself and the nature of reality, as well as the rational capacity to know the world. The poem also includes more vital verses, in which he disorderly reviews some events of his life.

In this route, we explore one of the most genuine environments of Ibiza, between the terms of Santa Eulalia del Río and San Juan de Labritja. It is a set of mountain ranges and ravines located north of the Morna plain, the continuation towards the northeast of the Amunts. One of these small mountain ranges is Mala Costa or Sierra de Morna, although on the route we also cross the Sierras de San Vicente and San Carlos.

The ARA Balears awards return in 2026 to recognize, once again, projects and careers that improve these Islands and the world. Within the framework of the newspaper's thirteenth anniversary and its ninth edition, these awards aim to highlight innovative and transformative initiatives in key areas such as education, culture, social action, commitment to the Catalan language, and economic activity.

The Consell de Mallorca will finally require a minimum of five years of legal residence to be eligible for social aid included in the package intended to alleviate the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. Initially, the island institution had planned to set this requirement at three years.

A 56-year-old man has died this Friday and another person has been seriously injured after having difficulty getting out of the water at Cala Mandia beach, in Portocristo (Mallorca).

The MÉS per Mallorca group in the Consell has criticized the purchase of thousands of backpacks and bags manufactured in India by the island's governing team, a decision they consider “disproportionate, inconsistent, and profoundly hypocritical”.

The Governing Council of the UIB has approved a new regulation that prohibits smoking on the terraces of the cafeterias in its buildings. The measure is part of institutional strategies to promote well-being and reduce risk factors among the university community, with the aim of consolidating safer and healthier spaces. The initiative was presented this Friday, April 24, at an event on the UIB campus attended by the Vice-Rector for Social and Cultural Projection, Adrià Muntaner, and the president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in the Balearic Islands, José Reyes.

The UIB Governing Council has approved a new regulation prohibiting smoking on the terraces of its buildings' cafeterias. The measure is part of institutional strategies to promote well-being and reduce risk factors among the university community, with the aim of consolidating safer and healthier spaces. The initiative was presented this Friday, April 24, at an event on the UIB campus attended by the Vice-Rector for Social and Cultural Projection, Adrià Muntaner, and the President of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in the Balearic Islands, José Reyes.

The Balearic Ornithology and Nature Defense Group has reported an increase in the dissemination on social networks of unauthorized activities in protected natural areas of Mallorca, a practice it considers growing and which, it warns, puts conservation of the environment at risk and fosters a sense of impunity.

The citizen platform Son Bonet Pulmó Verd has denounced what it considers an attitude of “despite and disregard” by Aena towards the residents of Marratxí, following plans to increase activity at Son Bonet airport.

A row of children's t-shirts hung along the primary school playground fence has turned CEIP Son Pisà into a striking image of protest this Friday. Each piece of clothing represents a child who has not entered class today. The action, organized by families at 9:00 AM — the usual start time of the school day — is part of the strike they began on Tuesday not to bring their children to the center, in protest of the presence of Miquel Roldán, a teacher with a final ruling for harassment of a minor ex-student. The stoppage has massive support, and today 61% of students were absent, one point more than this Thursday.

A row of children's t-shirts hung along the fence of the primary school playground has turned the CEIP Son Pisà into a heartbreaking image of protest this Friday. Each piece of clothing represents a child who has not entered class today. The action, organized by families at 9:00 AM —the usual start time of the school day—, is part of the strike they began on Tuesday to not bring their children to the school, in protest of the presence of Miquel Roldán, a teacher with a final ruling for harassment of a former minor student. The strike has massive support, and today 61% of students were absent, one point more than this Thursday.

The Euthanasia Law, in force in Spain since June 2021, has been progressively implemented in the Balearic Islands, where, to date, 116 people have requested this medical procedure and 40 have died after availing themselves of it within the public healthcare system.

The Parents' Associations of the primary schools of Pla and IES Sineu have taken a step forward to curb the early use of digital devices among the youngest. According to the digital magazine Díngola, the entities have agreed on a collective commitment document for parents to voluntarily agree not to give smartphones to their children at least until the second year of ESO.

If a milestone can be attributed to the far-right this legislature, it is that of setting the ideological framework for the immigration debate, with the Spanish government's extraordinary regularization in the spotlight in recent weeks. The pull effect, the collapse of public services, the criminalization and instrumentalization of women's rights as an excuse to exhibit racist behavior are not the exclusive domain of Vox, with a PP concerned with capturing all the 'off-center' and right-wing vote it can in the next elections. "It's not enough, now we want much more: more majorities, more stability, fewer obstacles, fewer stumbling blocks," summarized the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, on Thursday during the presentation of her candidacy to once again lead the Balearic PP. The popular leader brandished the flag of freedom, another usual mantra when it comes to exalting the party's values.

Marga Prohens has hung up her presidential robes, put on some jeans, and bet everything on blue in her first purely electoral event, this Thursday in Portitxol.remodelled once) without seats, while the deputy spokesperson in the Parliament, Marga Duran, acted as an improvised hostess and directed the attendees.

A Francisco Capacete life was changed by a case in Buenos Aires in which an habeas corpus –the right reserved for humans to appear immediately before a judge after being detained– was requested to free a female orangutan held in a zoo against her will. "I found myself with great apes, who think and feel", he recalls. A law graduate from the UIB, he specialized in animal law in 2012. "I have always liked animals", he admits. Today he lives by defending them.

“This book will be part of the memory for some and a discovery of the unlived reality for others”, affirms the priest and researcher Santiago Cortès in the book’s prologue. In Inca desapareguda (Efadós, 2026), the author, Carme Colom, recovers, from an extensive photographic collection and collective memory, the landscapes, trades, and transformations that have marked the passage of time in the capital of Raiguer.

A Francisco Capacete had his life changed by a case in Buenos Aires in which a habeas corpus –the right reserved for humans to appear immediately before a judge after being detained– was requested to free a female orangutan held in a zoo against her will. "I encountered great apes, who think and feel," he recalls. A Law graduate from the UIB, he specialized in animal law in 2012. "I have always liked animals," he admits. Today he makes a living defending them.

The rise of the far right is a transversal phenomenon that affects groups from different spheres of societies. The transfeminist movement is one of them, and Argentine activists Ornella Infante (former director of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism of Argentina) and Belén Correa (researcher at the Archive of Trans Memory of Argentina) know this well. Both warn that the rights gained in recent decades are in danger and insist that no social conquest has been made without a struggle nor is maintained without defending it. Infante and Correa participated last Friday in Palma in a meeting on memory and rights.

The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, has visited the Naüm Foundation with the aim of learning firsthand about the protection and good treatment policy promoted by the entity, within the framework of the deployment of the Organic Law for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents (LOPIVI). During the visit, the minister was able to get closer to the work that the foundation carries out in matters of guaranteeing rights, preventing violence, and promoting the well-being of children, adolescents, and young people in situations of special vulnerability.

The National Police have arrested three people in Ciutadella de Menorca —including a father and son— accused of violently assaulting a man, shooting him in the face with a pellet gun, and threatening him with potentially dangerous breed dogs. As reported by the Superior Headquarters of the Police of the Balearic Islands, the events occurred in the early hours of Sunday to Monday, when several patrols from the Citizen Assistance Group were alerted to an assault outside a leisure venue in the municipality.

Miquel Roldán, accompanied by his lawyer, arrived this Thursday afternoon at the Ministry of Education, urgently summoned to discuss his incorporation into CEIP Son Pisà and the conflict that has arisen with the families, as ARA Balears has exclusively learned. The meeting took place after a particularly tense day at the center, in which approximately 60% of the students did not attend class as a sign of rejection of the presence of Roldán, convicted of child harassment. This situation has intensified the pressure on the educational administration, which is now forced to find an immediate solution to a crisis that has shaken the educational community and reopened a debate on the criteria for incorporating staff into schools. On Monday, the center's families will meet with the Director General of Early Childhood, Attention to Diversity and Educational Improvement, Neus Riera, to explain their demands, which include getting Roldán removed from teaching.

Miquel Roldán, accompanied by his lawyer, arrived this Thursday afternoon at the Ministry of Education, urgently summoned to discuss his incorporation into CEIP Son Pisà and the conflict that has arisen with families, as ARA Balears has exclusively learned. The meeting took place after a particularly tense day at the school, in which nearly 60% of the students did not attend class as a sign of rejection of the presence of Roldán, convicted of harassing minors.

Palma City Council gave political instructions not to reinforce the staff of the Social Citizen Attention Office (OAC), despite the saturation of the service caused by the extraordinary migrant regularization process. This was confirmed this Thursday by the coordinator of Social Services, Patricia Pizá, during a Citizen Services commission, in statements that corroborate the complaint made by the workers last week.

"What a shame to be poor", one reader of romantasy tells another as she considers a hardcover edition with a colored spine of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros's bestselling saga. After a brief debate with her friend and several knowing glances, the book ended up in the bookseller's hands and the credit card did the rest. Transaction completed, happy reader. The scene took place in the space that one of the main bookstores has set up for Sant Jordi in Plaça d'Espanya in Palma. Like this one, hundreds, perhaps thousands, have been repeated this Book Day.

The Government and the island councils have called this Thursday on the Minister of Childhood and Youth, Sira Rego, to activate preventive migratory contingency to stop the distribution of migrant minors and to speed up the repatriation of minors arriving in the Balearic Islands who maintain permanent contact with their families, as reported by Europa Press. This was explained by the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, after meeting at the Consolat de Mar with the minister, the Minister of Families, Social Welfare and Care for Dependency, Sandra Fernández, and the presidents of the island councils. Prohens has valued the tone and receptivity of the minister and has emphasized that they are going "with a more accurate picture of the reality of the Balearic Islands".

The Council of Ministers plans to soon approve an expansion of the child protection law with the aim that individuals convicted of harassment, as is the case with Miquel Roldán, cannot work in the educational field again. This was announced this Thursday in Palma by the Minister of Childhood and Youth, Sira Rego, after meeting with the President of the Govern, Marga Prohens, in a meeting where, among other issues, the case of the convicted teacher who this week joined a school in the city was discussed.

“We started 20 years ago. Little by little. Now everyone promotes and cooks Sant Marc snails… but at the time we were the first”, explains Guillem Garí, owner of the Es Cruce restaurant in Vilafranca, the temple of one of the most sought-after Majorcan dishes this week on the island.

The rose that the artist Pep Llambias (Alaró, 1954) has made for ARA Balears and that will be at all the Sant Jordi stalls in Palma is not, by any means, the first one he has made. The thorn of a rose, in fact, was one of the main protagonists of the exhibition with which he filled the Llotja de Palma 20 years ago. “I am very attracted to the duality it symbolizes”, he acknowledges, and states that he has some planted in the yard of his house.

I am from 1979, the son of peninsular immigrants, and I grew up in Inca, but not in the center: we lived in the areas where the foreigners who had arrived in the 60s to work in industry had settled. My parents were part of that. That origin, which didn't seem important when you were little, ended up determining which school you went to. I started nursery school in the early 80s, still with an educational structure heavily marked by Francoism, and I went to Sant Vicenç de Paül, in the Crist Rei neighborhood. It was a school practically made for the children of immigrants. We were all Spanish speakers and, in the classroom, Catalan didn't exist. In fact, we needed it, but they didn't teach it to us.

The doctor in Political Science from the University of Valencia and author of La extrema dreta a Europa (Tirant), Anna Isabel López Ortega, considers the agreement between the PP and Vox in Extremadura "a warning for navigators with neon lights": "It marks a turning point for future agreements". Especially, due to its harshness in the anti-immigration discourse, because the text of the agreement proposes, for the first time, a clause of "national priority" to access public aid or subsidized housing in general. In fact, the two parties have already replicated the formula in Aragon, and are beginning to bring national priority to debate in other institutions, such as Congress or the Balearic Parliament.

A new development of homes on Joan Bauzà street, in the Palman neighborhood of Pere Garau, has ignited debate among residents over sale prices. Most apartments exceed 330,000 euros before VAT, with amounts that can reach over 530,000 euros (including VAT), figures that many residents consider beyond the reach of the area's usual population (and which expel them from the neighborhood where they have grown up and want to live).

The families of CEIP Son Pisà have agreed not to take their children to school until they meet with the Ministry of Education as a protest measure against the incorporation into the center of the teacher Miquel Roldán, convicted of harassment of minors. The decision was made after a meeting of the educational community with more than 200 families, in which parents evaluated different response options to the situation.

have agreed not to take their children to school until they meet with the Ministry of Education as a protest measure against the incorporation of teacher Miquel Roldán, convicted of child abuse, to the center. The decision was made after a meeting of the educational community with more than 200 families, in which parents evaluated various response options to the situation. During the meeting, the school principal explained that this Wednesday, spontaneously, 40% of the students were absent and the children who came to class "are nervous" because the situation is affecting coexistence.The spokesperson for FAPA Mallorca, Miquel Àngel Guerrero, explained that an extraordinary school council has been convened for Thursday to address the situation, which the local educational inspector will attend to answer the questions of those concerned, because they are "very upset". Some parents have expressed their intention to wait around the school to see if any decision is made that could put an end to this situation.

The plenary session of the Senate has definitively approved this Wednesday the reform of the Spanish Constitution promoted by the Balearic Parliament that modifies article 69.3 so that the island of Formentera has its own senator and is detached from the electoral tandem it currently forms with Ibiza.

The Palma City Council has taken a new step towards the transformation of Plaça Major, aiming to open the underground galleries and turn them into an open agora. The Cort Governing Board approved this Wednesday the contracting file for the drafting service of the integral works project that will develop the ‘Àgora’ preliminary project, aimed at improving Plaça Major, its lower floors, and its surroundings.The contract also includes the technical direction of the works and will be processed by means of a negotiated procedure without prior publication. The base tender budget is 1.4 million euros (VAT included) and the action will be partially financed with funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS).

The Palma City Council has taken a new step in the transformation of the Plaza Mayor, aiming to open the underground galleries and turn them into an open agora. The Cort Governing Board approved this Wednesday the tender for the drafting service of the integral construction project that will develop the 'Agora' preliminary project, aimed at improving the Plaza Mayor, its lower floors, and its surroundings.The contract also includes the technical direction of the works and will be processed through a negotiated procedure without prior publication. The base tender budget is 1.4 million euros (VAT included) and the action will be partially financed with funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS).

The Mallorca per la Pau platform has organized the second edition of the Peace Conference, which will take place on April 24 and 25, with "a program open to the public and focused on the culture of peace, dialogue, and collective reflection," the entity reported in a statement. "In a geopolitical context marked by war, militarization, and the escalation of international conflicts – with figures like Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as examples of an increasingly polarized global scenario, marked by the normalization of conflict as a political tool – these conferences aim to reaffirm the need to clearly advocate for peace, disarmament, and the defense of life," the note adds.

Vox continues to squeeze the pact with the PP in Extremadura. After registering a motion in Congress to establish a "national priority" when receiving aid and subsidies, it is beginning to do the same in other territories. The spokesperson for Vox in the Balearic Parliament, Manuela Cañadas, announced this Wednesday that she has registered a non-binding proposal along the same lines. With this move, the far-right once again pulls the PP into its territory, forcing it to pronounce on an issue that makes it uncomfortable, as various popular leaders have already expressed, such as the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

The Balearic Government has initiated excavation, exhumation, and identification of human remains in two mass graves located in the Son Servera cemetery (Mallorca), one situated in a flowerbed and another in the niche area, within the framework of the V Plan de Fosas of the Balearic Islands 2025-2026. The objective of the intervention is to locate the mass graves, recover the remains of the buried individuals, and advance their identification.

Around 200,000 people were awaiting the resolution of a judicial case at the end of 2025, a figure that practically doubles the waiting lists for public healthcare and remains stable compared to the previous year.

The cancellation of the quiz show Yo sé más que tú, the most-watched program on IB3, has generated an immediate reaction from the audience. From the moment the announcement was made public, social networks were filled with criticism, laments, and demands for explanations from the management of the public television of the Balearic Islands. One user has gone further and has started a petition to force the entity to bring back the program.

The Palma City Council has assured that it does not plan to reinforce the Social Services area due to the regularization process for migrants promoted by the central government and has defended that the service “is functioning normally”, despite the queues recorded these days at the citizen service offices (OAC).

The Palma City Council has assured that it does not foresee reinforcing the Social Services area following the migrant regularization process promoted by the central government and has defended that the service “functions normally”, despite the queues registered these days in the citizen service offices (OAC).

The secretary of the 'Civil Society Forum for the reconstruction of the Balearic Islands', David Abril, presented this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies a document with more than one hundred measures to face the housing access crisis in the Balearic archipelago, among which includes expanding the public housing stock by 10% by 2040, which would imply building about 2,600 houses annually.

Businessman Salvador Llinás has accepted this Wednesday a sentence of four years and ten months in prison for the scam linked to Autoclik, a case that has caused an estimated economic damage of nearly 20 million euros.

Businessman Salvador Llinás has accepted this Wednesday a sentence of four years and ten months in prison for the scam linked to Autoclik, a case that has caused an estimated economic damage of nearly 20 million euros.

A substitute teacher at the Llorenç Garcias i Font institute in Artà, Mallorca, has been arrested by the Civil Guard for alleged touching of a minor student who was in her fourth year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and has been suspended by the Ministry of Education until the end of the school year.

The families of CEIP Son Pisá have expressed their “deep concern” about the incorporation to the center of Miquel Roldán, the Mallorcan teacher judicially convicted of harassing a minor, a situation that, they assure, has generated “alarm and unease” within the educational community.

That Saint George has taken flight in recent years is a fact that is noted every April 23 in Palma. If last year two caparrots were premiered there, confirming its character as a traditional festival, this year the festival has begun almost a week earlier with a prior fair in the neighborhoods of the City. Nevertheless, the momentum of Book Day has also been felt outside Palma: throughout the Balearic Islands, numerous bookstores are preparing since February for one of the most important days of the year.

I, who have already put a six in front of the figure that states my age, have so far come out cheap for the public health system. If you count all the care, tests, treatments, and interventions I've had throughout my life, since fortunately there haven't been many, the economic balance is favorable to IB-Salut. But I won't deny it: I've started to have little things. Unimportant trifles, parts that wear out from continuous use of the machinery. And since it's better to prevent than to cure, I've started to go for a few check-ups. Among the doctors who have visited me, there have been a couple of South Americans with whom I have had no problem when I addressed them in Catalan. They answer me in Spanish without any problem, nor do I. On the second visit, one of these doctors plucked up the courage to stammer in Catalan, and I encouraged him to continue because he was doing very well. The Charter of rights and duties of the healthcare user from the Government tells me that I have the right to obtain information, verbal and written, in understandable language and in the official language of the Balearic Islands that I choose. I have not asked the doctors who have attended me for anything more than what they have done: that they understand me when I address them in Catalan. Thank you very much. But to the public Health system, to the health administration, I do ask - I demand - that the documentation be delivered to me in Catalan: written appointment and referral letters, diagnostic reports, informed consents, analysis results, medication instructions, therapeutic advice. Well, no. Impossible. 

The teacher Miquel Roldán, convicted of harassment of minors, has had priority in the process of awarding interim positions ahead of the rest of the participants, in application of an exceptional decision endorsed by a report from the labor risk prevention department of the Ministry of Education, as ARA Balears has learned exclusively through sources close to the Administration. In this way, the teacher has joined this Tuesday at CEIP Son Pisà in Palma, where some families have already chosen not to bring their children and more are mobilizing against the teacher's presence. In principle, he will be there until April 28. However, as has been learned, it is likely that the stay will be extended.

When she received the box of chocolates from one of Naviliers Bennassar's partners, Joaquina Ferrer, Director General of Coasts, decided not to open it because she wanted to share it with the officials. According to knowledgeable sources, she gave it to some members of her team who, upon opening it, couldn't believe what they saw. They immediately informed her, and Ferrer explained the find to the Minister of the Sea and Water Cycle, Juan Manuel Lafuente.

The Government has achieved the support of the PSIB, MÉS per Mallorca and the deputy for Formentera for the anti-crisis decree to face the price increase due to the war in Iran. Vox voted against it, arguing that it is a stratagem by the PP to push through hidden budgets. "We will not be accomplices of this mockery," said Cañadas: "They are taking advantage of it to push through budgets".

The conflict between the PP and Vox has once again become evident in the Balearic Parliament. The far-right party has voted against all the amendments presented by the PP, some 80, to the strategic projects law, known as the òmnibus law, during the deliberation of the Committee on Finance and Budgets this Tuesday. The move leaves a package of key measures for the legislature in suspense and is seen as a clear warning from Vox to Marga Prohens' Government.The decision means that several prominent proposals will be blocked or will have to be debated again. Among these amendments are tax reductions to expand the thresholds for the Property Transfer Tax (ITP) bonus, to reduce the tax on Documented Legal Acts (AJD), as well as a 50% reduction in both ITP and AJD for the purchase of limited-price housing.

The Spanish government's state housing plan has become an instrument of pressure on the communities governed by the PP that refuse to apply the state Housing Law. The PSOE opts for greater interventionism in the housing market and has linked the aid package to measures to combat the soaring prices of rent and purchase of flats. The funds are distributed according to the actions of each territory: the Balearic Islands will receive 168 million from the package of 7,000 million euros recently approved by the Council of Ministers. The Minister of Housing, José Luis Mateo, has accused the Spanish government of wanting to "meddle" in regional competences, as it conditions the reception of funds on the application of policies such as the limit on rental prices. The rejection of the PP leaders to the design of these aids is unanimous, although, for now, they have not ruled out benefiting from them.

The Balearic Islands began 2026 with a sharp increase in irregular sea arrivals of migrants, in a context of a general decline in the rest of Spain. Between January and March, the Islands registered a 32.7% increase compared to the same period last year, while Spain as a whole experienced a 63.8% decrease and the Canary Islands an even more pronounced drop of 85.3%. The data point to a displacement of migratory flows towards the Algerian route, which in recent years has been gaining importance, positioning the Balearic Islands in a central role.

The Balearic Islands have started 2026 with a sharp increase in irregular maritime arrivals of migrants, in a context of a generalized decrease in the rest of the State. Between January and March, the Islands registered a 32.7% increase compared to the same period last year, while Spain as a whole experienced a 63.8% drop and the Canary Islands, an even more pronounced fall of 85.3%. The data points to a displacement of migratory flows towards the Algerian route, which in recent years has been gaining importance to place the Balearic Islands in a central position.

The Ombudsman will investigate the obstacles denounced by parties and officials by the Cort Government team after MÉS per Palma filed a formal complaint.

Ever since Spanish president Pedro Sánchez recovered the historic slogan 'No to war' (which refers to the social rejection of the invasion of Iraq in 2003), the PP has been uncomfortable. At first, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, insisted that "the relationship with the United States (US) must be preserved", and avoided a frontal rejection of the war in Iran. But little by little, the popular party has been modulating its discourse. Especially since the conflict has generated a price increase in the State as a whole. In the plenary session of the Parliament this Tuesday, the first vice-president and Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoni Costa, joined Sánchez's slogan without reservations: "We say no to war, no to any war, and no to a war that has consequences on the daily lives of the Islands".

The Government has secured the support of the PSIB, MÉS per Mallorca, and the deputy for Formentera for the anti-crisis decree to address the price increase due to the war in Iran. Vox has voted against it, arguing that it is a PP stratagem to push through a hidden budget. "We will not be accomplices in this mockery," said Cañadas: "They are using it to push through a budget."

The Union of Doctors of the Balearic Islands (Simebal-CESM) maintains the strike planned for next week, from April 27 to 30, against the draft of the Framework Statute due to the lack of agreement with the Ministry of Health. The strikes, the third this year, are maintained after the different meetings held with the Ministry regarding the demands of the Strike Committee, focused on achieving decent working conditions for doctors and the guarantee of public healthcare, Simebal stated in a press release collected by Europa Press.

The Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO) of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) managed 10,129,062 euros in 2025 for research and innovation, providing 3.6% more funds than the previous year. “The evolution of the UIB's transfer office is very positive: we are obtaining more resources, signing more contracts, and developing more projects”, summarized this Tuesday at a press conference the vice-rector for Innovation and Digital Transformation of the university, Lorenza Carrasco, who gave as an example of this commitment that the office has gone from having five people to twelve.

The PP and the PSIB continue to fight for the extraordinary regularization of immigrants approved by the Spanish government. The President of the Government raised her tone this Tuesday and once again attacked the measure, insisting that it fosters "a pull effect in the midst of an unprecedented migration crisis." In line with her Extremaduran counterpart, María Guardiola, Prohens insists on the anti-immigration discourse, a banner that the PP has set out to dispute with Vox.

The PP and the PSIB continue to battle over the extraordinary regularization of immigrants approved by the Spanish government. The President of the Govern has raised her tone this Tuesday and has once again lashed out at the measure, insisting that it encourages "the pull effect in the midst of an unprecedented migratory crisis." In line with her Extremaduran counterpart, María Guardiola, Prohens insists on the anti-immigration discourse, a banner that the PP has set out to dispute with Vox.