A working group visited Santa Cruz last week to analyse potential installation points for the new and desperately needed radar equipment.
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As of now, all those visiting the Cabo Girão viewpoint, which receives half a million visitors annually, will have to pay a €1.50 entrance fee.
Four flights were diverted to Porto Santo airport this morning due to strong winds at the Madeira International Airport.
This morning, an earthquake registering 1.7 on the Richter scale was recorded off the Southeast coast of the Desertas.
The engineering and biotechnology company 'Buggypower - Gestão e Produção de Biomassa, Lda (BGP),' will develop a new project worth 2 million euros in their microalgae production unit based in Penedo do Sono, Porto Santo.
Tomorrow, the 1st of May, EasyJet will start its new Porto - Porto Santo route.
On a transatlantic voyage from Port Everglades, Celebrity Edge docked in Funchal harbour this morning, for a 10 hour stop over, before sailing for Gibraltar at 16:00.
It was announced today by NAV– Navegação Aérea de Portugal, that the international tender for the acquisition of two new radars for Madeira Airport will be launched by the end of the semester.
Thirteen young people, from the mainland (8) and Madeira (5), will travel for the first time as part of the TAP Air Portugal Flight Baptisms initiative.
The two people who were found dead in a ravine and in the sea in Porto Santo, are a German couple aged 54 and 55 years-old. A police source revealed to local newspaper, JM, that the victims had been living on the island for approximately two years, and were rarely seen out and about.
The Portuguese Navy, through the Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Subcentre of Funchal (MRSC Funchal), in conjunction with SANAS Madeira, carried out a medical rescue of a 46-year-old fisherman, who had fallen aboard the fishing 'Mestre Afonso.'
There was chaos this morning as 15 flights were diverted due to bad weather.
Yesterday, several operatives from the Porto Santo Volunteer Firefighters were involved in a complex mountain rescue and relief operation.
The PP – Associação Observatório das Paisagens e Pannormas do Arquipélago da Madeira, is dedicated to the regions panoramic landscape conservation, and as such, will be hosting a public/regional media presentation on Wednesday the 23rd of February at 4 pm, at the Cais da Ponta do Sol (Sol Poente Restaurant).
The Vila Baleira Hotels & Resorts Group, owned by Ferpinta Turismo, have completed their purchase of the Luamar Aparthotel, in Porto Santo.