The recent inauguration of the Quinta Falcão Housing Complex, signaled the beginning of a municipal community composting project which aims to promote the recovery and use of organic waste in housing estates.
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British Airways has announced that it will be suspending all its flights to Madeira until at least February.
With the festive season over, the new confinement measures will come into force, especially as yesterday the island registered 99 new positive cases, 93 of which were local transmissions.
The Regional Government has decided to cancel all the events related to Carnival 2021.
The Instituto of Wine, Embroidery and Handicrafts of Madeira (IVBAM), has chosen CH Business Consulting to create a digital marketing campaign to promote Madeira Wine in the United States, the main non-EU market.
According to Marco Costa, CEO of 'Henrique Costa & Filhos (Pyrotechnic Company), everything is ready for the year-end firework display in Madeira, although the 59 firework locations' (57 in Funchal and 2 in Porto Santo) will only be installed tomorrow.
The lottery to decide who will be the first to be vaccinated against Covid has been won by........ 'It's a surprise!' So says Pedro Ramos, the Regional Secretary for Health and Civil Protection.
The Regional Government, through the Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development, delivered bags of feed, straw and grass this morning to a dairy farmer in Ponta Delgada, whose property was destroyed by the Christmas Day storm.
While inspecting the damage in Ponta Delgada on Boxing Day, The President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque said that he is convinced that the island's Covid-19 vaccination programme will start before the end of the year, especially as the vaccines are due to arrive tomorrow, the 28th of December.
TFalcon Madeira have won the tender to provide pest control services at the Port of Funchal. The contract is for 36 months, and will concentrate on the ever increasing gull population at the port.
Pedro Ramos, the Regional Secretary for Health, has confirmed that Portugal will receive a total of 22 million doses, 400,000 of which, will be delivered in stages to the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
The outcome of the transition period for the UK's withdrawal from the European Union is not yet certain. There is so much uncertainty at the moment (the 31st of December 2020 is the date scheduled for the end of the transition), that no one can predict what will happen from the 1st of January 2021, especially in the circulation of goods between the EU and the UK.
At a meeting this morning, the 'Juntos pelo Povo' (JPP) stressed the need to guarantee measures capable of mitigating the destructive impact of the pandemic on the island's economy. They went on to say that "since the region cannot control or change the macro measures that are being followed, it can, however, consider a mitigation scheme aimed at recovering and maintaining possible tourist market dynamics. It is imperative that extraordinary measures are adopted to complement those in force at the airport."
The President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque was adamant yesterday, the 21st of December, that if supermarkets and shopping centres refuse to comply with the rules that he will close them down.