In a brief press statement, a spokesperson for the Social Security confirmed to JM that they have received four formal complaints involving three elderly residential homes managed by private individuals.
Madeira Weekly
PAN Madeira received several complaints from the residents of Vale Paraiso, in Camacha, as pollution from the nearby laundry company is affecting nearby residents.
The Funchal City Council, through its Animal Welfare Unit, is promoting from today the 1st of April and the 21st their 2nd Pet Adoption Campaign.
Hundreds of people, mostly tourists, flocked to Pico do Areeiro this morning to witness the sunrise, once again generating absolute chaos on the roads.
Mário Pardo, the fearless paratrooper who, in January 2010, jumped from Cabo Girão on a motorbike and parachuted down to the pebble beach, died on Friday, the 29th of March after an undisclosed illness. The news was released on social networks by the ‘Green Berets and Paratroopers,’ which pays tribute…
The Regional Director of Agriculture and Rural Development, Marco Caldeira, was today in Santa do Porto Moniz where he visited a farmer who produces, among other vegetables, about two tonnes of Madeira sweet potatoes.
The Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters (BVM) were mobilized, this morning, to Pico do Areeiro to assist about two dozen drivers who were stranded as the formation of ice had created hazardous driving conditions in the mountainous region.
Several publications are circulating fake news of appalling accidents on the 'Madeira Occurrences' page.
According to media outlets, Portugal has two confirmed cases of Whooping Cough (Pertussis).
The JPP recently visited local grape farmers in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, more specifically a 'Tinta Negra' farm, where they were told that the production of the 'Tinta Negra' grape is decreasing, "despite the increasing demand" from the region's Wine Houses.
Véronique and Laurent Blond, who were on holiday in Madeira, disappeared without a trace and the news of their disappearance is already been given attention in the French media.
As expected, Madeira will go to the ballot on the 26th of May.
The Madeiran man arrested in Jakarta with 2,500 grams of cocaine was carrying the drug in bottles of shampoo and shower gel and told Indonesian authorities that he was offered 6,000 euros to take it to Bali, Indonesian media reported today.