The unions, representing the aviation workers of airport concession managers ANA/VINCI, have reached an agreement on Wednesday to call off the shrike scheduled for 19, 20 and 21 of August. “After several hours of negotiations, at a meeting that began yesterday [Tuesday] at the premises of DGERT [Directorate-General for Employment and Labor Relations] and ended […]
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Travel Alert: Aviation workers call off end of August strike – Portugal
Posted on 10 August 2022.
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Opinion | Is there a fun side of climate change? – By Len Port
Posted on 07 August 2022.
Former Portugal prime minister, now United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, came out with another of his extraordinary dire statements last week. Referring to the war in Ukraine and Western tensions with China, Korea and Iran, he said that humanity was “just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” Here are some of his other most notable remarks […]
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Book | A History of Water | by Edward Wilson-Lee – Editor’s Note
Posted on 04 August 2022.
The stories of Damião de Góis and Luís de Camões capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life. A History of Water follows […]
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Travel Alert: Aviation workers to strike at 10 major airports – Portugal
Posted on 02 August 2022.
The National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC) and the Commercial Aviation Staff Union (SQAC), including cabin crew and ground handling staff, advanced a notice of strike at the 10 major Portuguese airports under concession to ANA [Airports of Portugal], owned by the French company VINCI, it was reported Monday. According to the notice, the […]
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Letras Lavadas: A charming spot in the heart of Ponta Delgada – Interview
Posted on 01 August 2022.
By Millicent Accardi The motto “Find the book of your life at Livraria Letras Lavadas” comes true in a charmingly renovated building aptly located on Largo da Matriz, in the heart of historical Ponta Delgada, São Miguel island. Managed by Patrícia Carreiro, the bookstore is currently owned by Ernesto Rezendes, and his two sons, Bruna […]
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Space Travel: Mário Ferreira the first Portuguese tourist to fly into space – Portugal
Posted on 26 July 2022.
Portuguese entrepreneur Mário Ferreira will be the first Portuguese “space tourist,” to board the New Shepard capsule in its next space mission programed by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos aerospace company. Blue Origin has confirmed that Mário Ferreira would be the first person from Portugal to cross into the space frontier. Jeff Bezos, the founder […]
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