Yesterday, the Palma city council declared that it will now take steps to solve the problem of weekly street parties being hosted at the Paseo Maritimo. Last week, the local council in Alcudia set up stringent measures and penalities for those caught violating a set of new antisocial conduct laws. But in Palma, the council [...]
Yesterday, Paul Davidson, the British engineering magnate came back to Majorca with the news of him purchasing Real Mallorca. Real Mallorca is among the top listed sports items on sports shows on Spanish TV news and on the radio. Vicente Grande, the chairman, signed a contract on Thursday night to sell 91.2% of his 93% [...]
Joana Barcelo, a spokesperson to the Balearic government said yesterday that the regional ministries of Transport and Employment had approached the Palma-based airline company Spanair to continue their operations in Majorca. This move had been taken after Spanair came to an agreement with over 1,200 of the staff losing their jobs. Margarita Najera, the Employment [...]
More than 500 British visitors were struck at different places in the Balearic Islands yesterday, after the XL leisure Group, Britain’s 3rd largest holiday company, following TUI Travel at first place and Thomas Cook at the second, went into administration. This move caused more than 80’000 holiday makers being struck at different destinations. XL leisure [...]
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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 [...]
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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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, [...]
Yesterday, Ib-Salut, the public health department of the Balearics reported that nearly 6.8% of the 3,325 of its doctors are foreign. Of these, majority of the foreign doctors, 48 in number, work for the primary medical care centres having emergency medical staff The Can Misses hospital, Ibiza in collaboration with the Mateu Orfila hospital, Minorca [...]
The Railway Museum at Soller will exhibit the designs of Joan Miró, a Catalan born artist and sculptor of 20h century, on sailcloth, today. It will be conducted along with a photo exhibition in memory of his works and life. During the nineteen seventies, Mallorca had a great influence on Mirós work and a nearly [...]
