Holiday rentals
Half of Airbnb properties in Majorca are marketed by just 99 "owners"
"There needs to be a ceiling on the number of tourist places and to also be a reduction in the number which there is at present."
Crime
Arrests for Santa Ponsa hotel room thefts
At least twenty rooms in Santa Ponsa hotels were burgled.
Majorca
Poor image and illegal activities: the week in Majorca
There was a poor image - at the airport and on the beaches. There were illegal properties and there was illegal selling.
Culture
"I would tear the European Union up and start all over again"
Man of the world, poet, writer and media columnist, Samuel Bressón will soon be presenting his new book in Palma.
Majorca
What's on in Majorca: 29 May-4 June
Manacor's second weekend of its spring fairs, with cossier dancers on Sunday. Lloseta has its shoes fair. It's Arta's beer festival on Friday evening and all Saturday. Sa Pobla goes gastronomic with potatoes. British pianist James Rhodes is in Palma on Sunday. Ricky Martin at Palma Arena on Wednesday is sold out.
Real Mallorca
Listless Mallorca still stuck in the bottom four
Comment
Greed is not good any more
Michael Douglas once famously said as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street that "greed is good", now it is not.
Humphrey Carter