News of the day 12 August 2016
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Tourism
Business and unions against limits on tourist numbers
Environmentalist group GOB accuses the tourism minister and the government of engaging in "outrageous propaganda".
Tourism
Més looking to tackle air travel drunkenness
Margalida Capellà says this would not be an initiative against tourists or against the British but against the whole notion of drunken tourism.
Transport
No increase in Palma taxi-drivers' hours of working
Palma's transport councillor Joan Ferrer had already pretty much ruled out an increase in hours and he has now confirmed this.
Society
Fiestas at the centre of campaign against sexual assault
"For fiesta, Majorca free of sexist aggression. No, and that's that!"
News / Comment
Holiday / Lifestyle
Letters to the Editor
If it is true that the Majorcan children repeatedly score low attainment in core skills and subjects in the present public education system, why are the parents not creating more protest?
Edition of 12 August 2016
Comment
Taxi turmoil
Can’t get a taxi in Palma? Looks like we’re in for a long wait.
Humphrey Carter