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Tomorrow evening starting at 6 pm, there will be a new Praça do Povo summer sunset, this time with Miguel Pires Trio performing at 7 pm.
The route between Pico do Areeiro and Pico Ruivo, one of the most popular routes in mountain areas, is open again after being closed on the 3rd of June, due to a landslide which destroyed a 20m section of the path, as well as guardrails and viewpoints.
The Municipality of Santana has confirmed that the work on the glass platform viewpoint at Guindaste, overlooking the Ribeira do Faial, is going ahead as planned.
This morning passersby were shocked at the recent vandalism of the Municipal Garden, in Funchal, as plants had been pulled out of the ground and thrown onto a nearby pavement.
NAV Portugal EPE – Navegação Aérea de Portugal published today, in Diário da República, the announcement of a public tender for the supply and installation of a system for detection and warning of turbulence and wind shear at Madeira Airport. The procedure has a base value of €3.5 million.
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!
Two tourists, in their 40's, on a fun night out had to be rescued by the Portuguese Red Cross (CVP) last night/early this morning.
The representative of the Republic for the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Counsellor Judge Ireneu Cabral Barreto, yesterday paid tribute to those who were killed in the bombing of Funchal that took place on the 3rd of December 1916.
Euthanasia or assisted suicide is a crime in Portugal, but there are citizens dying of their own volition in Switzerland, where, from 2009 to 2020, the Dignitas Association helped eight people residing in the Portuguese territory to die.
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.
A Regional Health Directorate (DRS) circular, 2022/935, 2 June, now states that anyone who believes that they have been infected by the Monkeypox virus in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, must phone the SRS 24 line (800 24 24 20). The number, which is the same as the Covid-19 hotline is now providing support for those who may or think they may have been infected with the new virus.
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.