The fundraising campaign to help the family of little Alice Aguiar, murdered in England, in a stabbing that killed two other children, is already at 28 thousand pounds. Alice Aguiar, who would have turned 10 in October, was the only child of a Madeiran couple, born in the parish of…
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The lynx seized in Madeira will be returned to the owners, the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment announced this afternoon in a statement. According to the same source, the animal, named Bores, will be in the custody of the owners “until the conclusion of the administrative offence process…
The Commercial and Industrial Association of Funchal (ACIF) today suggested the implementation of access control and flow management systems, on the most popular routes such as Rabaçal, Queimadas, Pico do Areeiro – Pico Ruivo, through the development of an app. The application should “provide information to tourists, companies, and residents about…
PS-Madeira defends that an Integrated Plan for the Management of Tourist Flows be implemented in the Region, involving all tourism agents, in order to find and put into practice solutions to the problems of disorganisation and excess human load that occur in some points, such as Pico do Areeiro. The…
“Madeirans are showing more and more interest in Madeira Embroidery.” This is the finding of Marisa Santos, a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Wine, Embroidery and Handicrafts of Madeira (IVBAM). “The findings and the interest shown in Madeiran Embroidery during World Embroidery Day, and last…
Shock. This is what is experienced in Quinta Grande, where the parents of the child who was stabbed yesterday in England and who died this morning are from. 10-year-old, Alice Aguiar, was born in England and had not been to Madeira for two years. Local JM newspaper reporters met with…
In 2023, 7.2 thousand crimes were recorded by the police authorities in the Region, representing an increase of 5.9% compared to the previous year (6.8 thousand). The data, provided by the Directorate-General for Justice Policy (DGPJ), were released today by the Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM). According to…
Electricity production increased by 2.1%, estimated from electricity emission data provided by the Madeira Electricity Company (EEM), during the 1st half of 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year. “Analysing the production mix of electricity emitted in the 1st half of 2024 – whose total was around…
Francisco Gomes, deputy of Chega in the Assembly of the Republic, is concerned about the persistence of “high levels of poverty in Madeiran society” and believes that they prove that the economic sector is generating and deepening social inequalities. The observations were made in actions of contact with the population,…
The Regional Secretariat for Finance informed today that the Loja do CidadĂŁo (Citizen’s Shop), located on Avenida Arriaga, will open on the 1st and 2nd of August, despite the day-off granted by the Regional Government on the occasion of the Madeira Wine Rally. Also as in previous years, the island’s…
The association Ajuda a Alimentar CĂŁes has publicly appealed for the desert lynx recently seized in Funchal by the GNR to be returned to the owner from whom the wild animal was taken. A public petition has already garnered more than three thousand signatures and raises awareness of the return of the animal,…
Banif’s injured parties will propose to the Government a compensation claim of 169.6 million euros, to respond to 1,900 credit claimants, in a solution similar to that found for the injured parties of BES’s Commercial Paper. According to a source linked to the process, Banif’s injured parties estimate total losses…
The Folklore Group of the Casa do Povo da Camacha (GFCPC) will be in the USA between the 26th of July and the 6th of August, to celebrate the 108th Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in New Bedford – Massachusetts. A festival created by the Madeiran diaspora in the USA…
The Government will approve new withholding tax tables that will reflect the reduction of IRS rates, after the promulgation of the diploma by the President of the Republic. This will come into force retrospectively in September. “Following the promulgation of AR Decree No. 7/XVI, by the President of the Republic,…
As part of the Museum’s Conference cycle, a lecture given by Lieutenant Philip Boak, of the British Royal Navy, entitled ‘An experience in Antarctica’, will take place in the auditorium of the Natural History Museum of Funchal, on the 29th of July, at 5:00 p.m. In this lecture, the speaker…