It’s that time of year again and from the 1st of March registration opens for the yearly garden competition – Funchal – Florida City 2025′ contest-. Applications are open until the 31st of March. Registration for the 26th edition of the initiative can be made online on the Funchal City…
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The Madeira Force Coalition, composed of the PTP (Portuguese Labour Party), MPT (Earth Party Movement), and RIR (Resuse, Include, Recycle Party), requests that the Regional Government suspend all work on the Ponta do Pargo golf course. Raquel Coelho argues that “there are more urgent needs such as health and housing,…
The Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN), has started a general public awareness-raising action in Porto Santo. Manuel Filipe, President of the IFNC, explained that the objective is to explain how the palm beetle (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus or Red Palm Beetle) has attacked so many palm trees in Porto Santo…
PAN Madeira carried out an official visit to Porto Santo, where it met with the Mayor and visited several local institutions and infrastructures, namely the Municipal Kennel and the Porto Santo Volunteer House. The party was also in contact with the local population to survey the problems and potential of…
Portugal, through the Mechanised Brigade (MT), will assume for the first time the command of a European Union Battlegroup (EUBG); a multinational rapid reaction force ready to respond to international crises, in what is considered a historic moment by the Army. “It is firstly an international recognition, secondly a national…
In recent years, crop production in the parish of Jardim da Serra has been affected by climate change, the differing stages of the species’ phenological evolution, and persistent soil diseases that have decimated many of the region’s cherry orchards. The Regional Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Development has an experimental…
The Funchal City Council has confirmed the road changes on Saturday the 1st of March due to the Great Allegorical Carnival Parade which starts at 20:00 and on Tuesday the 4th of March (People’s Parade). The changes are: Â 20:00 on 28.02.2025 (Friday) to 09:00 on 02.03.2025 (Sunday). Road traffic on…
Two Italian tourists in their 20s, jumped into the sea in Cais do Sardine, Caniçal late yesterday evening. The incident was witnessed by several people in the area who raised the alert, ensuring that the Funchal Maritime Search and Rescue Subcenre sent out a SANAS team. The vessel was already…
The Council of Ministers has approved the decree-law that eliminates the obligation to report, in the IRS declaration, income not subject to IRS, such as meal allowances, and those subject to withholding taxes, such as interest. The approved diploma, in addition to eliminating the carry-forward of those types of income,…
Five years after the first cases of contagion of Covid-19 were confirmed in Portugal, Public Health specialist Francisco George warns of new “threats on the horizon” such as the H5N1 flu virus. “We have to be prepared now, more than ever, for a new phenomenon. There are threats on the…
A US military plane – Beechcraft C-12 Huron landed at Madeira International Airport at 13:15 this afternoon. The US Army priority flight arrived from Faro after taking a detour around the island before landing. There were three people on board, and as yet no details have been released about the…
The President of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira said today that he does not know if the region has been able to learn from “past mistakes.” The statement was made at an exhibition conference ‘The water flows, the stones take…” which served to mark the 15th anniversary of the 2010…
The President of the Regional Government reacted today after Regional Secretaries RogĂ©rio Gouveia, Pedro Ramos, and Pedro Fino and the Secretary General of the PSD-M, JosĂ© Prada, were interviewed by the Judiciary Police in the context of the ‘Ab Initio’ process, saying that “no one has been or is accused…
The ADN – Madeira Party has alerted ACT – Authority for Working Conditions, ASSICOM – Association of Civil Construction Industrialists of Madeira-, and other responsible entities linked to the assembly of equipment and structures of the risks to the physical integrity of workers, and the need for adequate health and…
The ADN party through its candidate, veterinarian Carolina Martins, warned today about the introduction of larvae powder in food, which was approved by the European Commission, on Monday, the 17th of February, and confirmed that it is already being used in Portuguese flour. “There are several questions that need clear…