Nearly 6.5 million passengers travelled on TIB between January and April, an increase of 1.9 million (42%) compared to the same period last year.

The Ministry of Housing, Territory and Mobility of the Government of the Balearic Islands, through the Transport Consortium of Mallorca (CTM), has recorded in the first four months of the year, from January to April 2024, nearly 6.5 million passengers who have travelled on the TIB bus, which represents an increase of 42.2% in the number of users compared to the same period of 2023, when free travel on all public transport was already in force.

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The number of passengers travelling on TIB buses rises by 42%

During the first four months of this year, the increase was more than 1.9 million passengers compared to the same period in 2023, from 4.5 million to nearly 6.5 million. This 42% increase in demand for TIB network buses comes between two periods in which free transport had already been introduced for users travelling with the Intermodal Card.

At present, the interurban public transport of the TIB network connects the different municipalities and areas of Mallorca with 71 bus lines. To cope with the increase in demand, both during the winter season and in the new service for the summer season, reinforcement measures have been adopted, mainly to increase frequencies on the bus lines.

During the winter season, from 1 November to 21 March, the TIB network was reinforced with an increase of 27 bus lines compared to the previous winter, an improvement of 53% of the total number of lines operating in this period. Likewise, for the summer season, this year the start of the reinforcement of the service was brought forward to 22 March compared to the last high season.

For the summer season, frequencies have been increased on a total of 24 bus lines, resuming service on sixteen lines and incorporating a new line (131) in the Serra de Tramuntana, between Santa Ponça, Banyalbufar and La Granja de Esporles.

Ten new compressed natural gas buses are expected to be added to the TIB’s current sustainable fleet in the coming weeks, increasing the current fleet, which currently has 201 compressed natural gas buses and eighteen electric buses.

About the reinforcements adopted for the summer season, in the Ponent area, the nuclei of Palmanova and Magaluf (104) have been better connected with services every 15 minutes in each direction, and, compared to last summer, the improved offer in the tourist area of Costa de la Calma also stands out, which almost doubles connectivity with Palma and Santa Ponça, with a new frequency of 25 minutes.

In the northern area of Mallorca, the late-night service on the suburban line connecting Alcúdia-Can Picafort (324) has been reinforced, reaching beyond 00.00 h with a stable frequency of 12-13 minutes; line 302 has been improved compared to 2023 by increasing the frequency to one bus every twenty minutes during peak hours and extending the service until 0. 10 am to ensure that hotel and restaurant workers can return home; and in the centre of Cala Sant Vicenç, line 321 has brought forward the daily start time to 7.10 am.

On the Llevant coast, the Cales de Mallorca line (416) has increased its services by 50% since the end of March, and in the Migjorn area, the Campos-Palma express services (501) have been added throughout the day. Concerning the Aerotib lines that connect with Palma airport, the A32 and A42 lines have increased their service by 10 % compared to the summer of 2023.

The Minister of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, Fernando Rubio, today received representatives of AEVAB and BALEVAL to gather their contributions to the study of the road network load that the island institution is preparing.

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The Consell de Mallorca meets with car hire companies

The Minister of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, Fernando Rubio, met today with representatives of the two car hire associations of the Balearic Islands to study measures agreed with the sector to study solutions to the saturation of Mallorca’s roads. Rubio was accompanied by the island directors of Mobility, Rafael Oliver, and Infrastructures, Rafel Gelabert. The delegation from the Agrupación Empresarial de Alquiler de Vehículos con y sin Conductor de Baleares (AEVAB) was headed by its president Ramon Reus. For its part, the Balearic Association of Car Rental with and without Driver (BALEVAL) was represented by its board of directors, chaired by Othman Ktiri.

Fernando Rubio explained that the Department of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures is working intensively to draw up a study of the load on the island’s roads, a document that until now has never been carried out in Mallorca to find out with official and contrasted data what the causes of the traffic jams on Mallorca’s road network are. Rubio reiterated that the study will also propose solutions, both with infrastructures and possible regulations, and that the Consell is ‘willing to take courageous measures’ to improve the mobility of Mallorcans, as the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has stated on several occasions.

The car hire companies have shown their willingness to collaborate with the Consell in the search for effective solutions to alleviate the saturation of the island’s roads.

Today’s meetings with AEVAB and BALEBAL are the second that the Department of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures will hold with representatives of the sectors involved and civil society. The aim is to hear their opinions first-hand and reach a consensus on possible solutions to the saturation suffered by Mallorca.

The Social Security Reserve Fund exceeded 8.3 billion euros in September and will end 2024 with 300 million more than expected.

The Social Security Reserve Fund reached €8.356 billion on September 30, the highest level since December 2017, and is set to end the year with nearly €9.3 billion accumulated.

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The Government revises upwards the “pension fund”, which will close the year with 9,300 million

The so-called ‘pension piggy bank’, which ended 2023 with 5,578 million euros, has so far this year received contributions worth 2,623 million euros, thanks to the Intergenerational Equity Mechanism, which came into force in 2023, to provide resources to this fund through a percentage of the contribution for common contingencies, distributed between the company and the worker with the same distribution as in social contributions.

In September alone, the Reserve Fund received allocations of 314.7 million euros, to which will be added those corresponding to the last three months of the year.

Primary Care of Mallorca has prepared a campaign to disseminate on social networks on the occasion of the XXV Smoke-free Week

Primary Care of Mallorca has managed to double the number of people who quit smoking in 2023, compared to 2022, after participating in a smoking cessation group in health centres throughout Mallorca. These are group interventions to quit smoking (with the accompaniment and advice of health professionals) that are offered in the health centres of Mallorca to all those people who are considering quitting smoking. Thus, in 2022, a total of 91 smokers managed to give up the habit at the end of the group therapy. This figure rose to 184 people in 2023.

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The number of people who have quit smoking in the last year

Precisely in 2023, 38 smoking cessation treatment groups were set up in 24 health centres in Mallorca. These groups brought together a total of 667 patients, of whom 184 have managed to quit smoking.

This week is the 25th No Smoking Week, which culminates on Friday with World No Tobacco Day (31 May). This initiative, which is part of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (SEMFYC), is organised this year with the slogan ‘Zero emissions in your lungs too’.

Primary Care of Mallorca participates in this Smoke-Free Week with its commitment to promote health with a campaign that will be disseminated on social networks with the aim of raising awareness and motivating all those people who can not quit smoking or who have tried several times. These are testimonies of people who show that it is not the time or the number of attempts that matter, but the intention and commitment to oneself to give up smoking as many times as necessary until it is finally achieved.

The prevention and fight against smoking has been one of the commitments of the Primary Care Management of Mallorca for decades. In this sense, among other initiatives, numerous group and individual interventions have been carried out to stop smoking and informative community prevention activities to raise awareness among the population about the importance of a smoke-free life. Primary Care in Mallorca also has referents in each health centre who advise and provide the necessary tools to tackle smoking.

This new cycle responds to the demands of the need to incorporate studies linked to the nautical sector.

Students will do their paid internships at the facilities of members of the Association of Industries and Nautical Services of Ibiza and Formentera

The Department of Education and Universities incorporates the middle grade of Vocational Training in Maintenance of Recreational Boats in the intensive dual mode in the Integrated Vocational Training Centre (CIFP) Can Marines of Santa Eulària des Riu, on the island of Ibiza, which will begin to be taught next September. Fifteen places will be offered for this degree.

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The intermediate level of VET in Boat Maintenance at CIFP Can Marines from September

The Regional Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, accompanied by the Director General of Vocational Training and Educational Planning, Maria Isabel Salas; the territorial director of Education in Ibiza and Formentera, Juan Álvarez, the president of the Association of Nautical Industries and Services of Ibiza and Formentera, Ramon van der Hooft, and the director of CIFP Can Marines, Pep Marí Tur, today presented the new studies, which will be taught for the first time in Ibiza and which will respond to the needs and demands of the nautical sector of the Pitiusas.

Students enrolled in the new intermediate degree will do their internships at the facilities of members of the Association of Nautical Industries and Services of Ibiza and Formentera. The studies will be taught in dual intensive regime, which means that students will have an employment contract and remuneration during their training.

The incorporation of these studies responds to the claims of companies in the sector, which warn of the lack of skilled labour. Professionals with this profile are in great demand in Ibiza, and in response to this need, the Regional Ministry of Education and Universities has decided to incorporate this educational offer, which has a high labour market insertion rate.

These studies are already offered in Mallorca and Menorca, and now they are also being incorporated into the CIFP Can Marines, where the intermediate degree in Navigation and Coastal Fishing Technician and the advanced degree in Maritime Transport and Deep-sea Fishing are already being offered.

14th October 2024

The programme, organised by the Jewish Community of the Balearic Islands with the support of the City Council, will begin this Tuesday with a conference by the biblical scholar and theologian Jaime Vázquez on the Dead Sea manuscripts.

Palma, 14th October 2024. This Monday, the Can Bordils premises, the headquarters of the Arxiu General de Palma, hosted the presentation of the European Youth Culture Day, which will be held from the 15th to the 29th of October, organised by the Comunitat Jueva de les Illes Balears and with the collaboration of the Ajuntament de Palma.

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Can Bordils will be one of the main venues for the activities of the European Day of Youth Culture

The programme includes different activities to disseminate some of the most deeply-rooted historical and cultural aspects of the Jewish legacy, through lectures, round tables, film screenings, guided tours and musical concerts.

On behalf of the City Council, the Director General of Heritage and Interpretation of the City, Pilar Ribal, attended the informative meeting. Also present were the president of the Comunitat Jueva, Ariel Girondi, and its vice-president, Miquel Segura.

During his speech, Ribal stressed that this is ‘an essential date with the history of Palma’, where, he said, the Jewish imprint ‘has made a decisive contribution to the evolution of the capital of the Balearic Islands, which is indebted to this tradition and culture, its rich heritage and values that have been transmitted and strengthened from generation to generation’.
Can Bordils is one of the main stages of the programme of the European Day of Youth Culture, hosting three activities, all of which will begin at 19:00.
On Tuesday, the conference ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls. The story of their discovery’, which will be given by the biblical scholar, theologian and journalist Jaime Vázquez Allegue.
This speaker has spent more than 25 years studying these manuscripts, which were found in 1947 in the desert of Judah, constituting, according to experts, the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century.
In fact, the documents that the speaker will discuss contain the oldest texts of the Hebrew bible and a large collection of writings that outline the social, political and religious context of Jerusalem.
Jaime Vázquez is a tenured professor at CESAG and holds a PhD in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

The activities will take place in Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca.

The Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB) is launching a new initiative to promote the use of the Catalan language through guided tours to discover the environment, history and culture of our islands. The initiative aims to create spaces for socialising in which Catalan speakers and people who want to practice the Catalan language can participate.

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New opportunity to share Catalan as part of the celebration of International Museum Day

The initial activities have been carried out on the island of Mallorca, aimed exclusively at students on IEB courses. The first visit took place this Monday, 13th May, at 6A Taller i Galeria d’Art, where they were able to see the gallery’s current exhibition and the printmaking workshop. The second meeting is scheduled for today, Wednesday the 15th of May, with a morning and afternoon session at Es Baluart Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma. During the visit, visitors will be able to tour the exhibitions by Belio Fullana and Ana Laura Aláez, as well as see the terraces of the emblematic building.

The following visits will take place in Ibiza and Menorca on Saturday the 18th of May, coinciding with International Museum Day. In the city of Ibiza, there will be a guided tour of the Puig des Molins Monographic Museum, through some specially selected objects to learn about the universe of beliefs, rites and funerary behaviour of the men and women of antiquity. You will also have the opportunity to walk through the necropolis and descend into a set of 2,500-year-old underground tombs.

In Menorca, the Museum of Menorca in Maó has prepared a guided tour of its permanent exhibition, with ten carefully chosen objects that invite visitors to travel through the history of Menorca and learn about the island’s details from the technicians.

The director of the Institute of Balearic Studies, Llorenç Perelló, states that “initiatives like this promote the regular use of the Catalan language in different scenarios of everyday life, such as these guided tours, to learn about the culture of our islands at the same time”.

The Ministry of Youth and Children has presented the institutional campaign Signs that could mean a lot, with the aim of raising awareness against violence against children and adolescents.

Institutional campaign to make violence against children visible: ‘Signs that could mean a lot’.

The campaign encourages people to pay attention to the signs that can give away these types of situations, which are often invisible or even normalised.

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Youth and Children presents an institutional campaign to make violence against children visible

Violence against children and adolescents is often minimised or relegated to the private sphere. They have a strong impact on the physical, emotional and social development of children and adolescents, and can limit the life projects of those who suffer them.

The Minister for Youth and Children, Sira Rego, said: ‘The silence surrounding the violence suffered by a child or adolescent speaks of society as a whole, of our lack of care and respect for children’s rights. To break this invisibility and combat it requires a commitment at all levels, from institutions to those who work or spend time with children, including families.

Children and young people who experience violence often find it difficult to put words to what is happening to them, especially younger people. The campaign encourages paying attention to signs that may indicate that someone is suffering from violence, such as sudden changes in behaviour, uncontrolled fears, somatisation, mutism, avoidance of people or places they used to like, fear of undressing, self-harm or violent play.
‘Just as society has realised that male violence against women is unacceptable and that it must be expelled from all public and private spheres, we must act forcefully to eradicate violence against children and adolescents’, added the minister.
Rego presented the campaign together with the Director General for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, Sandra de Garmendia, who stressed that regardless of whether it is physical or psychological violence and who perpetrates it against them, violence against children and adolescents is ‘unacceptable’.
‘They violate their fundamental rights, recognised in article 39 of the Spanish Constitution and in various international treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,’ the director general stressed.

Signs that could say a lot follows in the wake of two previous institutional campaigns, promoted by the Directorate General for Children and Adolescents. The campaigns are part of the efforts to eradicate violence against children promoted by the Organic Law for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents against Violence ( LOPIVI).

The initiative includes projects by universities, town councils and private individuals that will promote studies on the chronology and practices of the past.

The Consell de Mallorca is subsidising a total of 10 archaeological research projects over three years with a total of 692,415 euros. The aim is to promote scientific archaeological research on the island and contribute to the conservation and maintenance of the island’s historical heritage.

The vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, explained that the selected projects contemplate different lines of research, including the analysis of ancient structures, studies of chronology and functionality, and studies on past fauna and flora. The subsidy will be distributed as follows: 140,641 euros in 2024, 276,889 euros in 2025 and 274,885 euros in 2026.

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The Consell de Mallorca subsidises a total of 10 archaeological research projects over three years with almost 700,000 euros

The grant programme includes projects promoted by universities, research centres, town councils and other entities. ‘This diversity reflects the richness and transversality of archaeology as a fundamental discipline for society,’ says Roca. He also stresses that ‘with this initiative, we reaffirm our commitment to the preservation of Mallorca’s cultural heritage and support researchers who contribute to the understanding of the island’s history and identity’.

It is important to note that in 2024 the Consell de Mallorca has allocated a total of 565,000 euros to seven municipalities on the island to acquire archaeological sites: Manacor, Alcúdia, Petra, Selva, Santa Margalida, Llubí and Sencelles will thus be able to incorporate spaces of great historical and cultural value into their public heritage.

Visit to the Es Turassot archaeological site

The Vice President of the Consell de Mallorca and Councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, visited the Es Turassot site in Costitx, along with the Mayor of Costitx, Antoni Salas, one of the subsidised projects that received the highest scores for its quality, suitability and technical, temporal and economic viability.

In this navetas settlement, the council will carry out excavations to analyse the domestic and economic practices of the period, as well as the chronology and functionality of its structures. Roca stresses that ‘this project will provide a better understanding of the spatial organisation, economic activities and cultural changes in the settlements of the Pla de Mallorca, which will contribute to scientific knowledge and the dissemination of the island’s archaeological heritage’.

Salas stresses that ‘the navetas settlement of Es Turassot is a unique opportunity to enhance the historical heritage of Costitx, as it is an exceptional testimony to understanding how the communities of the Pla de Mallorca lived and interacted millennia ago’.

Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of these 10 projects are universities and research centres, local councils and individuals. Specifically, the beneficiary universities and research centres are the UIB, which will carry out two studies: one on the Indigenous communities of Mallorca during the Iron Age and another on the Closos de Can Gaià and its surroundings; the IMEDEA, which will study the chronology and functionality of Mallorcan sanctuaries; the Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio-CSIC, which will carry out an interdisciplinary research project on the exploitation and use of copper in the prehistory of Mallorca; the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), which will study the island’s early ecosystems; and finally, the University of Valencia, which will re-excavate the Sec shipwreck to understand commercial and technological aspects.

As for local councils, the beneficiaries are Costitx Town Council, which will carry out the excavation and study of the set of navetas of Es Turassot, from the Talayotic period, to analyse domestic and economic practices; Montuïri Town Council, which will investigate the transformations of the Son Fornés settlement after the Talayotic period; and Santanyí Town Council, which will carry out a study on fortifications and social changes in Mallorcan settlements in the Second Iron Age.

Finally, as far as private individuals are concerned, there is only one beneficiary: the Sóller Botanical Garden Foundation – Balearic Museum of Natural Sciences, which will carry out a study on fauna and flora linked to extreme climatic periods in the Mediterranean.

The Department of Tourism closes the summer campaign with 2,554 actions in total, 70% of which have been focused on combating illegal activity in the tourism sector

The Department of Tourism of the Consell de Mallorca has closed the summer campaign, which included an ambitious inspection plan, with a total of 2,554 actions throughout the island, to ensure the proper functioning of all tourist activity that takes place in Mallorca. The campaign was carried out from 15 June to 15 November to combat illegal supply and any other type of irregularity that may occur in the island’s regulated supply.

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The Consell de Mallorca triples the number of actions against illegal tourism in the summer campaign 2024

The results, as announced this Thursday at a press conference by the Councillor for Tourism, José Marcial Rodríguez Díaz, have been ‘very satisfactory’, with ‘70% of the actions focused directly on combating illegal supply in the sector’. Specifically, of the 2,554 total actions, in these 5 months, the inspectors have carried out 1,765 visits against this type of offer, ‘three times more than a year ago (593)’, and have resulted in the opening of a total of 245 infringement proceedings, 10.3% more than in the same months of 2023, when there were 222.

In this line, Rodriguez has detailed that these 2,554 actions have responded to both complaints and claims received by the department, as well as the activity of the summer campaign promoted by the inspection service to control illegal tourist activity in all types of establishments. In addition, the total number of visits (2,554) is also three times the number made in the same period in 2023, when there were 969.

Results of the plan
Rodríguez also advanced some results obtained during 2024 against illegal supply and revealed that up to October (latest available data) the number of total inspections against illegal supply has tripled compared to a year ago (3,102 vs. 1,028), with a 13% increase in the number of infringement reports issued.
In terms of sanctions, Rodríguez detailed that 179 proceedings were opened in 2024 and approximately 78 have already been resolved. The total amount proposed as a sanction in these proceedings opened in 2024 was 4.42 million euros.

On the other hand, over the last few months, the inspection service has also focused its efforts on locating and pursuing repeat offenders. In this way, with a prior list provided by the sanctioning department, of 91 reports with the result of a sanction, the inspectors have gone to 51 of the 91 properties, issuing 6 infringement reports, so recidivism has been found in 11.76% of the properties previously sanctioned.
Finally, the summer campaign was also aimed at checking the 3% of local produce in Mallorca’s establishments. Specifically, the establishments included in the summer campaign were finally 188, 20% more than those initially announced (152), which were asked to provide the relevant documentation to prove their compliance.
Of these 188 establishments, 86 have replied, with a 100% compliance rate. The rest of the establishments are awaiting their response, which will be forthcoming in the coming weeks.
The Councillor for Tourism concluded his speech by assuring that ‘the plan implemented last year works, it is appropriate and allows us to fight against illegal supply, whatever type it is and whatever sector it operates in’.

The railway company signs an agreement with the Guardia Civil for the delivery of 300 transport cards and will extend this initiative to other entities

Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM) has signed a collaboration agreement with the 17th Zone/Commandery of the Civil Guard of the Balearic Islands to allow free travel to all its members in the services managed by the railway administrator. For this purpose, 300 non-nominative transport cards have been delivered to them, which can be used by all the members of this corps belonging to the demarcation of the island of Mallorca.

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SFM

The cards provided through this initiative have an identification number that will allow to have a personalized record of its use by the Command and the main objective is that the members of the corps can have easy access to both train and metro stations to facilitate possible interventions or develop research and intelligence work, but also encourage the use of public rail transport among its members.

The measure gives continuity to other similar agreements already in effect by SFM, such as the one made under the same conditions with the National Police a few years ago or with the Local Police of Sineu, more recently. Likewise, SFM intends to follow the same steps with other local police forces in municipalities along the railway corridor.

On the other hand, SFM has opened the application for obtaining group tickets to new entities, such as associations or leisure and free time entities, the different groups of the Moviment Escolta i Guiatge de Mallorca, entities that work with people with functional diversity or senior citizens or other similar groups that want to benefit from the advantages of this ticket.

Until now, the purchase of group tickets was authorized exclusively to schools attached to the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Balearic Islands, being free of charge for students in kindergarten, primary and secondary schools and offering very low fares for the rest of the courses.

It should be remembered that the group ticket must be requested to SFM in advance and following the established channels and it is not necessary to have the Intermodal Card to make use of it by any member of the group traveling on the train. It is a type of ticket widely used for excursions or outings by schools since, apart from the economic benefit if you do not have an Intermodal Card, it allows you to organize the trip with the advice of the railway company’s staff and speeds up the access and exit of the stations for the comfort and safety of both the group making the trip and the rest of the users of the railway network.

The Balearic Islands are pioneers in the implementation of ultrasound scanners in primary care health centres

Throughout 2024, Primary Care has trained a total of 618 professionals: 424 doctors, 124 nurses, 50 physiotherapists and 20 paediatricians in the Balearic Islands in the programme for the implementation of clinical ultrasound in health centres. The Balearic Islands have also been the first autonomous community to train all resident doctors in basic clinical ultrasound in 2021.

The First Conference on Clinical Ultrasound in Primary Care (ECO-APIB) in the Balearic Islands took place today at the Hospital Comarcal de Inca. This conference aims to explore advances in ultrasound in primary care with a programme divided into different workshops with practical training in ultrasound aimed at health professionals (and residents) in medicine, paediatrics, nursing and physiotherapy in the Balearic Islands.

The conference, which is attended by over one hundred participants, features thirty workshops and eight national speakers who are experts in ultrasound. Some of the presentations focus on the usefulness of ultrasound in emergencies or in the evaluation of rheumatological diseases, among others. Clinical ultrasound has established itself as a tool of excellence and a complementary diagnostic tool. It represents an important reinforcement in the capacity to make decisions, providing added value to the quality of healthcare activity.

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Primary Care has trained more than six hundred professionals in clinical ultrasound in the Balearic Islands

Primary Care in Majorca, pioneer in the use of clinical ultrasound

Ultrasound scanners are becoming a very useful tool in health centres to achieve a better approach to diagnosis. In no case do they replace anamnesis or examination; they are an extension of the physical examination, which facilitates diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and prioritised referral in practically all clinical scenarios.

The Primary Care Management of Mallorca has been a pioneer in the commitment to implement clinical ultrasound in health centres. In fact, it began in 2019 and since then has made significant progress in different aspects throughout the Balearic Islands: investment in the provision of ultrasound scanners for all health centres, investment in ongoing training in clinical ultrasound for primary care professionals (with courses, on-site workshops and eco coach), and the creation of the Balearic Islands Primary Care Clinical Ultrasound Classroom (ECO-APIB), with ultrasound stations and training spaces. The Clinical Ultrasound Technical Commission has also been created in the Technical Office of Primary Care in Mallorca.
The ECO-APIB Illes Balears classroom has seven ultrasound stations and a teaching team made up of 18 doctors, 3 paediatricians, 3 nurses and 1 physiotherapist. Training in clinical ultrasound has been expanding year after year: basic, advanced, hepatobiliary-pancreatic, thoracic and pulmonary, echocardoscopy, urology, emergency care, paediatrics, vascular, thyroid, renal, musculoskeletal, etc.

Inca City Council is promoting a project to plant and replace new trees in different public spaces in the city to mitigate the heatwave effect. Thus, the corresponding tenders have already been launched and it is expected that at the beginning of next year work will begin in the different areas and, progressively, work will be carried out in the affected streets. At the same time, an information session was also held to explain the details of the project and all the initiatives that will be carried out over the next few months to the citizens of the town.

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Inca will improve the city’s street furniture to mitigate the heatwave effect

‘The tree planting plays a fundamental role in the environmental quality of the city. That is why we have promoted this project to make a decisive contribution to improving the management and use of urban green infrastructure. The regulation of the temperature or the capture of pollutants are some of the positive effects of the trees that directly affect people’s health’, explains the mayor of Inca, Virgilio Moreno.

Thus, the general objectives of this project are to improve green infrastructures and link them to the natural context, to increase resilience in the face of climate change and to guarantee the quality and accessibility of public spaces. Likewise, these actions will also help to lower the city’s temperature, reduce solar radiation during the hottest months, increase CO2 capture and oxygen production, reduce pollution (O3, CO, NO2, PM2.5, PM10, SO2), increase carbon capture, reduce pollution (O3, CO, NO2, PM2.5, PM10, SO2), increase carbon sequestration, reduce pollution and increase infiltration.

The specific areas of action of this project are Carrer Marjades, Carrer Josep Barberí, Carrer Joan Miro, Carrer Sor Clara Andreu, Carrer Joan d’Àustria, Avinguda Jaume I and Avinguda Jaume II. The work being carried out as part of this project includes increasing the tree cover on the streets, removing trees in poor condition or that interfere with services, buildings or installations, increasing the permeable area of the scarcely accessible area and improving pedestrian walkways to improve accessibility, among other things.

This project is co-financed by the Conselleria d’Empresa, Ocupació i Energia within the framework of the public call for subsidies to local entities for actions to adapt to climate change in urban and peri-urban areas. The subsidised amount is 300,000 euros.

The island institution will be showing the Palau del Consell, the Llar de la Infància, the Teatro Principal and the Museum of Mallorca this weekend

The Consell de Mallorca has once again joined the Open House Palma initiative and will open the doors of four of its buildings. This Saturday and Sunday citizens will be able to visit the most emblematic buildings of the island’s institution free of charge and with a guided tour. The novelty this year is that, for the first time, it will be possible to visit the Llar de la Infància.

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The Consell de Mallorca opens the doors of its most emblematic buildings during Open House Palma

This is the fourth edition of Open House Palma, whose motto this year is ‘La ciutat per a qui l’habita’ (The city for those who live in it). In addition to the Llar de la Infància, the island institution will be opening the Palau del Consell, the Teatro Principal de Palma and the Museum of Mallorca. There is no need to register in advance for the visits; it is a free-access space. Once there, the volunteers will indicate the approximate waiting time for the visit.

The Palau del Consell de Mallorca and the Llar de la Infància will be open on Sundays from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 7 pm. Palma’s Teatro Principal can be visited on Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm, and the Museum of Mallorca will also be open on Saturday from 4 pm to 7 pm.

The Inca Town Council reaffirms its commitment to the farming sector and local farmers with the approval of a direct subsidy to the Pagesa de Inca Cooperative. In this way, the town council of the capital of Raiguer has granted a subsidy of 40,000 euros to improve the development of its work and contribute to increasing efficiency and sustainability.

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Inca Town Council and the Pagesa de Inca Cooperative signed a collaboration agreement

“This agreement is another example of the commitment of the Inca Town Council to the local agricultural sector. The Pagesa de Inca Cooperative plays a crucial role in our community and this modernisation of their facilities will allow them to continue their valuable work more efficiently,” says the Mayor of Inca, Virgilio Moreno.

The main objective of this direct subsidy is to provide economic support to the farmers of Inca, in order to promote the maintenance and growth of the sector. This aid will provide the Cooperativa Pagesa de Inca with the resources necessary to equip and modernise the shop, warehouse, offices and meeting room at the headquarters of the Cooperativa Pagesa de Inca.

“The main objective of this grant is to strengthen the sector and ensure its sustainable development. In this way, we support the Cooperativa Pagesa de Inca, a reference entity in the town, in its work of advising and training local farmers, as well as promoting agriculture and the development of the primary sector in Inca”, explains the councillor for the Environment, Helena Cayetano.

The signing of the grant agreement for the modernisation and adaptation of the cooperative’s headquarters was presided over by the mayor of Inca, Virgilio Moreno, and the president of the Pagesa de Inca Cooperative, Tomeu Martorell. Also present at the meeting were the councillor for the Environment, Helena Cayetano, and other representatives of the cooperative.

The entity will manage 13,000 terminals between basic and advanced TAD in 2024, 14,800 in 2025 and 15,900 in 2026.

The budget distribution is 483,760 euros in 2024, 3,610,630 in 2025 and 3,587,677 in 2026.

The Consell de Govern has authorised the councillor for Families and Social Affairs to allocate a maximum expenditure of 7,682,067 € for the agreement with the entity Servicios de Teleasistencia SA for the home telecare service for people in a situation of dependency from October 2024 to September 2026.

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7.6 million is allocated to the entity Servicios de Teleasistencia SA for the agreement from 2024 to 2026

The distribution of the budget is as follows:

483,760 € in October and November 2024 concerning the number of terminals previously contracted (7,200 basic TAD and 4,800 advanced TAD. The newly contracted terminals (800 basic TAD and 200 advanced TAD) will be with the effects of the agreement.

3,610,630 from December 2024 to November 2025.

3,587,677 from December 2025 to September 2026.

Currently, of the 12,000 terminals contracted by Servicios de Teleasistencia SA, 7,200 terminals are basic TAD and 4,800 are advanced TAD. The request that the entity has formalised is to manage: 8,000 basic TAD terminals and 5,000 advanced TAD terminals in 2024, 8,600 basic TAD terminals and 6,200 advanced TAD terminals in 2025, and 8,500 basic TAD terminals and 7,400 advanced TAD terminals in 2026.

The reference price per terminal/month is 14.96 € (VAT included) for basic TAD and 24.44 € for advanced TAD in 2024, 16.65 € (VAT included) for basic TAD and 26.30 € for advanced TAD in 2025 and 18.37 € (VAT included) for basic TAD and 28.17 € for advanced TAD in 2026.

From this April, the Balearic Islands will improve the children’s vaccination schedule with the inclusion of the 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Until now, and since 2016, babies have been immunised against 13 serotypes in three doses. From this April, and following the authorisation of the European Medicines Agency for the use of the 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, the Balearic Islands will be the first Autonomous Community to include this booster vaccine in the children’s vaccination schedule.

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Health reinforces child vaccination against pneumococcus

The Director General of Public Health, Elena Esteban, explained this morning, in a presentation at the Palmanova health centre, all the details of the vaccine recently incorporated into the children’s vaccination schedule, which can achieve up to four times more protection than the previous vaccine of 13 serotypes, taking into account the circulating serotypes.

As explained by Elena Esteban, who was accompanied by the coordinator of the Primary Care vaccination centre, Verónica Vega, the immunisation of babies with the new drug will be carried out in four doses: at 2, 4 and 6 months, with a booster at 11 months.

This booster vaccine with 20 serotypes has been included in the adult population’s schedule as a single dose since last October. Vaccination against pneumococcal disease in adults is indicated for people aged between 65 and 75 years and people with risk factors for invasive pneumococcal disease: transplant recipients, cancer patients, immunocompromised people, people with immunodeficiencies, cardiovascular or respiratory diseases or people institutionalised in nursing homes.

The Directorate General of Public Health of the Regional Ministry of Health has purchased 40,000 doses for the period between 31 March 2024 and 30 March 2025, with an investment of 1,961,000 euros. Of these, 25,500 doses are expected to be administered to the paediatric population, which usually achieves a vaccination coverage of 90%.

Pneumococcal pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) are a major health problem, mainly associated with the existence of risk factors and also related to age. In Spain, in recent years, the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network (RENAVE) has recorded between 3,000 and 4,000 cases per year, mainly affecting children under five years of age and older people.

Vaccination is an essential tool to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease, and for this reason, the vaccine was included in the children’s schedule in 2016. In the case of older people, the vaccine was already administered to people in at-risk groups and 2018 the Public Health Commission approved universal vaccination at 65 years of age.