19.12.2008Licence To Kill The hotel Son Moll in Cala Ratjada collapsed killing four men on renovations. It is a shocking story because of the deaths, but it also exposes just what seems to happen when it comes to some building works Full article
12.12.2008Suspicion Everywhere Corruption cases continue, with news breaking almost daily of something else, and now it is the local television station. Meanwhile, the situation at Real Mallorca football club just gets worse. Full article
7.12.2008A Battle Ahead For Hotels' Redevelopments? The hotels are to be allowed to get on with developments with the aid of financing and thanks to the removal of certain bureaucratic procedures. They are happy, but not everyone is. Full article
6.12.2008Responsibility And Reality Miquel Nadal, the tourism minister, wants the media to act responsibly in not talking down the 2009 tourism season. He has a point, but so does the media. Full article
4.12.2008To The Rescue - Or Maybe Not Social tourism is on its way, though it will not make much difference to Majorca's winter tourism. And meanwhile, the island's big football club is in ever deeper trouble Full article
1.12.2008Mayors In The Dock Twelve high-ranking officials and two civil servants from eleven municipalities across Majorca are implicated in a scandal related to false documentation centred on land in Ses Salines. Full article
28.11.2008The Face Rafael Nadal is set to be "the face" of Majorca's tourism. Good idea, but will it make any difference? Full article
24.11.2008Looking For The Right Words The newspaper "dBalears" is to give away a dictionary with its edition this coming Sunday. It will be a pocket Catalan-English dictionary. Useful, you might think, and you would probably be right. Full article
17.11.2008Heart And Soul The town of Campos had wanted a new golf development. It has been turned down, but what does this say about future developments of whatever variety and about issues such as the environmental lobby? Full article
16.11.2008Smooth Operators Forecasts from tour operators for next season contrast unfavourably with those coming from the Balearic Government, but despite this prices are set to rise and hotels are being squeezed on the prices they can charge Full article
9.11.2008You Shouldn't Do That The Balearic Government has been pursuing illegal holiday lets once again this past season, and the numbers are up Full article
4.11.2008Time For Tea The Spanish don't understand tea, but to drink coffee is to be one step from intensive care Full article