Today the CDU carried out their new 'Mentirometer' in the municipality of Funchal. This time, they wanted to uncover the broken promises made by the Funchal City Council (CMF),over the last couple of years, regarding their failure to solve the areas basic sanitation problems.
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Junta Pelo Povo (JPP) parliamentarian, Élvio Sousa, today attested that no rent has been paid by the region's port authorities for the last 31 years!
An experimental project started last Monday at Vereda das 25 Fontes, in Rabaçal, where the Instituto de Florestas, had a man on site to count the number of tourists visiting the area. They are now looking at introducing an entry charge, similar to the one that is already in place at Cais do Sardinha.
In a recent statement, PAN-Madeira, warns of the dangers that lurk in our oceans which must be tackled as "our oceans are the origin of all life on the planet - and they are in danger!"
Now closed to the general public, the Municipality of Ribeira Brava has started work on the unstable eastern face of Calhau da Lapa.
Gonçalo Henriques, the entrepreneur responsible for the Prima Caju hotel, announced that two new city hotel projects are underway in two of the capitals emblematic buildings.
Referring to the Lugar de Baixo Marina, the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, reaffirmed that the political decision to build the Marina was based on a technical study carried out by the best laboratories.
In the last five years, the Regional Civil Protection Service (SRPC), has undertaken on average, 160 search and rescue missions in the mountainous regions of Madeira and Porto Santo.
A driver who forgot to put his handbrake on sufficiently, witnessed his car rolling over the edge of a mountain and down into a ravine 140 metres from the road.
On the 4th of May, the Union of Workers in Public Functions of the South and Autonomous Regions (STPFSSRA) and Social Services of the South and Autonomous Regions and the Socio-Professional Association of the Maritime Police (ASPPM), expressed themselves in a joint communiqué, against the proposed increased warden stay at the Savage Islands from 15 to 21 days as part of a National Maritime Authority (AMN), naval cost cutting exercise.
The Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN), has issued a statement, saying that for safety reasons, the PR1 Vereda do Areeiro pedestrian path is temporarily closed, due to a landslide.
After carrying out yet another survey on Calhau da Lapa to reanalyse the eastern rock face, the Ribeira Brava City Council, yet again, have stated that the area is unstable and dangerous, and therefore closed to bathers for the foreseeable future.
Miguel Albuquerque, addressed this morning, the issue of the new access plan rules which will be imposed in the most sought after tourism spots in the region; stating that it is important to listen to ACIF's hospitality department who are responsible for the sector.
The National Tourism Association, through the interpreter guide Mara Cardoso, suggests that the Regional Government should restrict the access of vehicles to the regions most popular tourism sites.
After carrying out a new inspection of Calhau da Lapa to re-analyse the stability of the eastern slope and determine the state of the escarpment, the Ribeira Brava City Council has decided to close, for an indefinite period, the entire area of Calhau da Lapa, after a massive fractured and decompressed area was recently identified.