Rui Viana’s ordeal is far from over. The 21-year-old Madeiran was arrested ten months ago in Jakarta carrying drugs contained inside shampoo bottles and was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison. Since October, his lawyer has been in contact with the Jarkartan authorities asking for the young…
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The services of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) in Madeira are now able to renew residence permits requested by foreign citizens who are in the Region. Until now they had to go to the mainland. According to Pedro Portugal Gaspar, there is an estimated response time of…
According to a survey released this morning, seven out of ten companies are against the implementation of a four-day week, especially in commerce, industry, and construction, and 71% of those who agree argue that the measure should be optional. Prepared by the Portuguese Industrial Association – Chamber of Commerce and…
During its latest campaign ‘While at the Wheel, the Mobile Can Wait,’ the Public Security Police recorded 169 road violations between the 14th and 20th of January. According to the regional command of the PSP of Madeira, 1,256 vehicles were inspected, and among the 169 infractions, 12 were stopped for…
Political party, ADN – Alternative national Democracy Party, today questioned the regional authorities about what has been done to combat illegal immigration in the Region. Now that SEF – Foreigners and Borders Service no longer exists, the party understands that little is known for sure about how the entry of…
A 42-year-old man accused of robbing a bank branch of Caixa Geral de DepĂłsitos, on the 12th of January last year, in Câmara de Lobos, was sentenced to a six-year prison sentence today. This afternoon, the Judicial Court of the District of Madeira acquitted the defendant of the three crimes…
The Judiciary Police, through the Criminal Investigation Department of Madeira, with the collaboration of the Criminal Information Unit, identified and detained, in Funchal, a 61-year-old foreign citizen, under an International arrest warrant, issued by the Venezuelan authorities. The man is wanted on suspicion of fraud. According to the national directorate…
The PSP has detained at 36-year-old man in the Santo AntĂłnio area for illegally remaining in the country. Since he did not have documents, a police investigation was carried out that found he was an ‘illegal’ given that his initial request for a temporary residence permit had been rejected on…
The trial of a man accused of having caused a fire in a vacant house, putting the lives of a homeless couple who usually spent the night there at risk, continued today, in the Judicial Court of Funchal. The case dates back to November 2023. According to the prosecution of…
The Regional Command of PSP Madeira informs that on the 3rd of January, a foreign citizen, aged 27, was arrested for overstaying their designated time period in national territory. This arrest followed a special crime prevention operation carried out in November last year, in the Funchal area. At the time,…
The President of the Regional Government once again assured reporters this morning, that a set of public contracts “will stop,” including work on the Central and University Hospital of Madeira. Miguel Albuquerque explained to journalists that the holdup is due to the failure to agree on the budget and the…
The Court of Auditors (TdC), in its 2023 External Verification of the Regional Government Treasurer’s Account, indicates that the Regional Government did not fully comply with a recommendation regarding budgetary rules on the use of bank and treasury balances, which had already been left in the previous year’s report. In…
The Court of Auditors has issued its report on the audit of the clearance of financial responsibilities, under the debt settlement agreement between the municipality of SĂŁo Vicente and the Madeira Electricity Company. In conclusion, the TdC recommends that the municipal bodies of SĂŁo Vicente, in the settlement of debts,…
A high-speed motorcycle chase involving the Public Security Police surprised a party of people at 04:00 at the Cancela Industrial Park. One witness told reporters the motorcycle was going so fast that it almost ran several people over. Another said they had to sprint out of the way otherwise they…
Public Security Police (PSP) officers were involved in a high-speed chase on the VR1 yesterday. According to information gathered by JM, the suspect vehicle was being monitored and watched by PSP agents in the Santa Cruz area. When ordered to follow police instructions and immobilize the vehicle, the driver sped…