Incapacity cases rise

ing to the company that rents the scooters in the area were removed.

A municipal decree regulating the use of electric scooters was approved in July 2019. This regulation prohibits scooters from circulating on pavements, squares, parks and spaces exclusively for pedestrians.

THE minister for economic promotion and local development for Mallorca, Pilar Amate, participated in the presentation of the new promotional campaign ‘Productes de sa nostra terra’ (Products of our land) by the Eroski Balears supermarkets, which was held in Campos on Thursday, July 20.

The minister showed her determined support for local products from Mallorca and expressed her commitment to pro­ mote and strengthen the entire network of local products and the local productive sectors of the island.

During the presentation, she mentioned the network “that brings together the entire value chain of the native product, from the origin to the final consumer and which energises the local economy.

“We want to value initiatives such as the one that this supermarket chain has been carrying out for years, and which has been widely accepted, both by local producers, our farmers and fishermen, and by the consumer themself,” said the minister for economic promotion, Alvaro Roca.

Roca stressed the importance of supporting local products by carrying out promotional campaigns about the “extraordinary quality” of zero kilometre items.

In addition, in another crackdown on Wednesday, 17 electric scooters belong­

Scooters are also required to have a bell, brakes, lights and approved reflective devices so that they can be detected at a distance of 150 metres. Users must be at least 15 years old to ride one of these vehicles.

Porsche boss buys home

MALLORCA is one of the favourite destinations for holidays, but is also known as one of the most exclusive and beautiful islands in the world when it comes to purchasing luxury properties.

This is now the case of the billionaire owner of the luxury car company, Porsche AG. Eighty-year-old Wolfgang Heinz Porsche has purchased an imposing mansion in the southwest of the island, along with his new partner, Princess Gabriela of Leiningen, according to a local news source. Princess Gabriela is the ex-wife of the fourth Aga Khan, and became a Princess when she married the Russian Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen. Porsche is understood to have moved in with Princess Gabriele of Leiningen after the good friends enjoyed a holiday in the Maldives together

A GENERAL meeting of Mutua Balear, held last Thursday, July 20 in Palma unanimously approved the annual accounts for the year and the distribution of its results. This indicated that during 2022 it provided cover to 26,326 mutual companies, with a figure of 333,198 workers protected for professional incidents, and paid €180 million in social benefits for incapacitated workers on the Balearic Islands, which represented an increase of 20 per cent compared to 2021.

Of the 333,198 workers, 16.89 per cent were self-employed, which showed an increase of more than 10 per cent compared to the previous year.

PALMA theatre is searching for talented children and young adults to join its choir. Those between the ages of five and 22 and who speak Spanish can take part in the auditions, which will take place in September.

The theatre has three groups in its subsidiary choirs, which are Petitons, Infantile and youth.