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25 SEPTEMBER -1 OCTOBER 2014
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PALMA Prison has celebrated its patron saint’s day in recognition of staff and external partners who provide assistance to its 1,200 inmates.
Food fair THE third edition of the Balearic food fair is under way at El Corte Ingles in Palma. Showcasing local produce, it runs until October 12.
Student aid PORRERES Town Hall has agreed an initiative to provide financial support for students who go on to further education and study outside the town.
Curriculum row THE Balearic High Court has ruled the government’s TIL trilingual teaching programme ‘invalid’. Teachers and unions have argued with the Balearic Government over the proposed curriculum.
More foreign tourists visit the Balearics NEARLY eight-and-a-half million foreign tourists have visited the Balearic Islands so far this year. The figure represents an increase of 2.2
per cent over the same period last year, according to the Survey of Tourist Movement Frontera (Frontur).
All regions marked an increase in foreign visitors with the Balearics receiving 18.7 per cent of all international tourist arrivals in Spain, behind Catalonia. In August, 2,193,677 international tourists visited the islands, which organs and raise awareness represents an increase of of the importance of 6.2 per cent over the same month in 2013. The donation. Although the number of growth was largely due to brain death donations has a sharp rise in Germans, declined across the country, Italians and Belgians. The Espases is still one of the number of German and centres with a higher British arrivals were similar. number of such donors.
Organ donation decreases WHILST the positive decline in the number of deaths from road traffic accidents has been welcomed, it has had another, more negative, impact. As a result, the number of donor organs after brain
death has also fallen. Doctor Rafael Matesanz, National Co-ordinator of the National Transplant Organisation (ONT), has been at the Espases hospital in Palma. He said they must now look at alternative ways to obtain