We met with a small group in the Gallery and saw this video: The author wrote about the effect the “broken windows” theory had on the descent of the crime rate in New York City in the 1990’s Due to “Stop & Frisk” (mainly on black men), the NY police…
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28.2.2025 We met at the production facility of “Santo Queijo” (in Santo da Serra), our only professional dairy place on the island (https://www.santoqueijo.com/). We entered the factory through a “clean” room where we had to wash hands and donned garb as in a clinic, from top to toe (see foto).…
The Bus Driver syndicate has organized an all-day strike for Feb 20. Public buses will be on reduced or much-reduced service on Friday. Taxis are available (with taximeter fares). Ursula Hahn info at madeira-weekly.com
The Quinta B Team (B&B in Funchal) visited the „Solar São Cristóvão“ (follow the road signs in Machico). Here are their impressions: Today I would like to tell you about a little trip into Madeira’s past. We visited an old manor house in Machico, in the east of the island.…
We met on 18.1.2025 in the Gallery and saw a Guardian video about “Artificial General Intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2023/nov/02/ilya-the-ai-scientist-shaping-the-world.The interviewed person, Ilya Sutskever, is one of the creators of AI. He said that false messages and fraudulent content will become much more common. BBC had to retract a news item because it…
CBM is pleased to announce the return of professor Paulo Borges to Madeira on December 7th to lead a workshop on meditation. This event constitutes an introductory step to meditative practice, accessible to anyone. Professor Borges is professor of Medicine and Meditation at the Faculty of Medicine of the University…
We met in the Gallery and saw a Guardian video about “Honeydew“ communal living in Italy: https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2024/sep/11/better-together-is-communal-living-the-answer-to-modern-malaise-video A difficult topic for some of us because it is a bit woo-woo. The community has great plans for a harmonious living community. But someone had to fund the project and without good…
We visited the Viveiro in Matur. This tree/plant nursery is one of five the Government has on the island; of course, they are a bit remote (Casa Velha in Santo da Serra, Santa in Porto Moniz, Matur, Pico das Pedras in Santana). Porto Santo has one in Salôes. The website…
We visited the Instituto Oftalmologico Muñoz Trindade IOMT (https://www.facebook.com/iomt.pt/) clinic in Funchal, situated at the back of the LaVie/Plaza. Drs. Nuno Silva (from the Azores) and Fabio Trindade (Madeira) showed us the installations and the equipment they have. With altogether four doctors working there, they now pay off a (probably…
Real estate company REMAX revealed today, that in the first two months of the year, it carried out a total of 242 transactions in Madeira and the Azores;
According to the Portuguese Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies, mainland Portuguese citizens are concentrating on Madeira as a domestic holiday spot and the Cape Verden islands as their Easter holiday destinations.
The Azores Islands have become the new member of the Macaronesian Islands International Ports Association, which operates under the Cruise Atlantic Islands (CAI) brand, and which until now was made up of the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, and Madeira.
The group Cidadania Ativa (consisting of two members, Tina and Ursula, at the moment) met with Dra. Livia, the City Hall manager of “Mobilidade and Transito” on Sept 4. Our first issue: We’d like the City to keep sportive events* out of Downtown Funchal (Av do Mar and Av Arriaga),…
We (www.madeiraconsorcio.com) visited the Civil Protection Centre in Cancela (SRPC) (https://www.procivmadeira.pt/pt/) Control 24/7 The SRPC has a survey system for hot spots, combined with meteorological data so that they can evaluate the risk conditions in any part of the island at any time. They can see at any time where…
We (www.madeiraconsorcio.com) visited the Civil Protection Centre in Cancela (SRPC) (https://www.procivmadeira.pt/pt/) Fire prevention in the city Private homeowners know what to do in order to prevent a fire in and around their house – they are information sheets and articles around – but the Portuguese mentality does not lend itself…
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