The north eastern parts of Majorca, particularly Minorca and the Port of Pollensa were hit by torrential rain falls yesterday morning. Minorca suffered the worst and 4 people were injured here. Due to the heavy rains, a wall had crashed injuring a woman. Fire brigades were called within few hours. In Mahon, the rain fall [...]
Some sections of the tourism industry in Majorca are not as cheerful this year as the previous ones. Reports show that the leading hoteliers of Calvia are worried about the state of tourism as very few hotels are planning to open this year. Leading tourism experts say that in many hotels, the prices had to [...]
Yesterday, President Francesc Antich informed that he is looking for ways to save the Futura airlines and give assurance to its 1,200 staff members after the Palma-based company went into administration. The airline industry is unable to withstand the high fuel costs. With Futura airline wanting to reduce its fleet to half, the President said [...]
Palma’s Town planning department, yesterday, gave the approval to a ruling including a ban on the mobile phone antennas erected at a distance of 200meters or less from educational institutions. Mayor Aina Calvo informed yesterday that this move is realistic and responsible. She also said that this has been carried out in the best way [...]
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People from Transylvania, Lugoj, central Romania, came in thousands to attend Iosif Constantin Dragan’s funeral ceremony. Dragan was a billionaire who, according to the reports, had nearly $1.6 billion of wealth which made him the richest man in Romania. He was 91 years old when he passed away in Palma last week. He was mainly [...]
It seems that the Guardia Civil’s war against drug trafficking is going to continue for a long time. This week, in Majorca, they had seized around 7 tons of hashish. They had caught hold of two ongoing major operations in two different anti-drug operations on Sunday night. In the first operation, the target was a [...]
The release of data, showing Inca as the district with highest rate of growth of unemployment, for the second year in succession, brought about a dissent by the Socialist group which is Opposition. The growth rate of unemployment here is 3.7%. The opposition accused Partido party for not taking correct measures to address this problem [...]
ose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Prime Minister of Spain will be coming to Palma to attend his second and last summer meeting with the King next week at Marivent Palace. The meeting will take place on next Thursday. This week’s air crash accident is in the top on the agenda for the meeting. The Prime [...]
This year, 42 people died so far in road accidents in the Balearics. This number is 16 less than that of last year. In 2007, the number was 58, which means that the death rate in road accidents has gone down by 27.5 percent. According to the information released by General Traffic Directorate, Palma yesterday, [...]
Most of the projects undertaken by the previous government by Jaume Matas are under scrutiny due to fraud squad auditing. Of them, the most elaborate and expensive one, the Palma metro project was added to this list of fraudulent schemes yesterday. The present government, by Francesc Antich said that they would handover the taking care [...]
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