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Madeira Weekly
As part of a tourist initiative the municipality of Porto Moniz has launched their "Porto Moniz Revitaliza + Voucher Card.' Throughout October, all visitors who eat in local restaurants or stay overnight in one of the municipalities hotels will receive a free entry pass for the Madeira Aquarium.
This week a 10-year-old Italian boy threw himself off the balcony of his 11th floor apartment in the city of Naples, Italy, after leaving a note to his parents saying, “I'm sorry, mom. I love you, but I'm afraid of the black man in the hood.”
TAP's Board of Directors have confirmed that throughout October the airlines staff will continue to work on its current schedule of reduced hours.
Filipe Miguel Ferreira, aged 35, has been missing since yesterday, when he left his home in Câmara de Lobos to go to work. Since then there has been no contact and his phone is switched off.
Between 2020 and 2021, the Funchal City Council is set to invest some half a million euros as part of its sustainability strategy for municipal markets, including the installation of photovoltiac panels which turn light into electricity.
According to an estimate prepared by the Regional Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change (DRAAC), the global production of waste in 2019 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (RAM) was approximately 285.8 thousand tonnes, an increase of more than 61.9 thousand tonnes compared with the previous year.
Today, the 30th of September the Machico City Hall delivered 55 food baskets to those in need within the parish. This social short-term measure, is designed to last only three months, but can be extended if required.
EasyJet has announced, that they are reducing the number of flights between Lisbon and Madeira due to lack of demand, from the 1st of October.
At 02.42 this morning, the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA) recorded an earthquake registering 3.3 on the Richter Scale, located 300 km from the Region. Further information states that the quake had a depth of 10 km.
Madeira will insist that the European Union determines a “uniform criteria” applicable to all member states concerning the control of Covid-19 for those travelling throughout the EU.
The Mayor of Funchal, Miguel Silva Gouveia, recently presented a new historical initiative 'NOVEMIL' at the Municipal Theater Baltazar Dias. NOVEMIL is a digital platform that highlights Funchal's history, providing glimpses into the past that allows people to understand how the city has grown and changed since it was first established.
The JPP (Juntos Pelo Povo) has expressed its concern on behalf of professionals taxi drivers, as the law “Autonomous Region of Madeira Law No. 45/2018, of 10 August, which establishes the legal regime for the activity of individual and remunerated transport of passengers in vehicles uncharacterized from an electronic platform (taxis)” has not yet been published in Diário da República.
The Judicial Police (JP) in conjunction with the Criminal Investigation Department of Madeira, recently identified and detained two men, aged 48 and 30-years-old for drug smuggling at Madeira Airport, seizing 23,200 individual sachets of heroin.
Emergency services were called this afternoon (29th), after someone fell into a ravine in the Prainha area of Caniçal.
Although, information is sketchy, the emergency services have confirmed that the fall was fatal, and that the recovery of the body has been passed over to the competent authorities.