As part of the week of initiatives scheduled by the CPPC – Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation, they will promote their initiative "Stop the War! Give Peace a Chance" on Saturday, the 17th of June, outside the Farmer's Market, Funchal.
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After the weekly political diatribe by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) delegate on the state of the region's wages, the PSD discussed the works enacted by the Regional Government during Storm Oscar, with particular attention given to the island's rivers, which through a series of safety works protected much of the population when Storm Oscar hit the island.
APRAM - The Port Administration for the Ports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, were out this morning with cleaning teams at the Funchal Port Recreational Pier.
Despite the warnings and no entry signs at the access points of some of the closed pedestrian routes, tourists are choosing to ignore them and access the trails.
Maria da Conceição Gomes, 70, understands the concern of the Funchal City Council when they evacuated all 41 residents from the block of flats where she lived, because of bad weather, on Wednesday, but today says that it was not necessary for them to be so pressurised into leaving.
Nine hiking trails remain closed due to Storm Oscar.
More than 61% of respondents in the Intercampus survey carried out by JM and JM/FM believe that foreign citizens should pay to visit public spaces, such as the Cabo Girão viewpoint and the Cais do Sardinha walk.
Madeira has recorded a new national historical maximum value of precipitation, during the passage of Storm Oscar through the region, announced the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA).
From today, Saturday the 10th of June, the Monte Toboggans will operate with the following opening hours.
A 30-year-old tourist risked his life this afternoon by walking along the rock wall of the pier of Câmara de Lobos, while the sea still raged from the effects of Storm Oscar. In front of the incredulous gaze of onlookers, the man traversed the knife-edge rocks only to be engulfed…
Storm Oscar brought unprecedented levels of rain, with Areeiro recording levels of 604 millimetres per m2.
As of 16:30 today, 35 incidents had been recorded in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos due to the high rainfall caused by Storm Oscar. Three families also had to flee their homes.
The Civil Protection has issued a statement confirming that in the last 24 hours, a total of 163 occurrences, resulting from Storm 'Oscar' mobilised 168 teams and 436 operational staff.
According to the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA), a 2.2 earthquake was recorded at 22:39 off the northeast coast of Madeira.
Today's rain has exceeded red-level warning limits in three mountainous areas overlooking the city of Funchal, said the Regional Delegate of the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA), Victor Prior.