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Community | Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho remains on paid leave FLAD | Carlos Costa Neves appointed director of the Luso-American Development Foundation Book | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos  Community | Portuguese diaspora entrepreneurs network to be created Debate | Portuguese lawmakers propose shift in gender identity laws
 

Community | Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho remains on paid leave – Los Angeles, CA

Alberto M. Carvalho, the Portuguese-American superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), remains on paid administrative leave following a federal investigation involving the nation’s second-largest school system.  The move comes after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed search warrants at Carvalho’s residence and district offices in late February 2026, in […]

FLAD | Carlos Costa Neves appointed director of the Luso-American Development Foundation – Portugal

The Board of Trustees of Lisbon based, Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) appointed Dr. Carlos Henrique da Costa Neves, 72, to the Executive Board, chaired since January 15, 2026, by José Manuel Durão Barroso. Born in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores,  Costa Neves holds a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon. He has held […]

Book | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos  – Review

By Millicent Borges Accardi Born in Lisboa, Portugal, Hugo dos Santos was raised in New Jersey. An award-winning writer and translator, his books include a collection of short stories about Newark, Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), his upcoming book, book A Reduction in Force (Bauhan Publishing, 2026), winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry […]

Community | Portuguese diaspora entrepreneurs network to be created – Portugal

The Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, Emídio Sousa, has expressed his intention to foster the creation of an economic community that connects Portuguese citizens and their descendants worldwide, aiming to strengthen ties between the diaspora and Portugal’s economy. His proposal centers on leveraging the global Portuguese diaspora, estimated at more than five million people, […]

Debate | Portuguese lawmakers propose shift in gender identity laws – Portugal

Portugal’s parliament has voted in a preliminary session to advance three controversial bills that would significantly alter the country’s gender identity framework, marking a potential shift away from one of Europe’s most progressive legal models.  The proposals, backed by center-right and right-wing parties including the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Chega, and CDS-PP, would move forward […]

Book: ‘Fourth World Woman’ poetry by Lara Gularte – Editor’s Note

30 January 2022

Gularte’s identification with herself through the natural world and through the lives of others with whom she feels more than just symbolic empathy, provides us with something unique to the usual landscape that poetry’s created in our late 20th and early 21st century: passion. Engaged to the particular, Gularte brings us closer to a world […]

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Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People

Book: ‘Through a Grainy Landscape’ by Millicent Accardi – Review

27 January 2022

By Vamberto Freitas I’ve read and written about the poetry of Millicent Borges Accardi before. Yet I always make a point of never revisiting what I’ve already written. By writing regular criticism or literary essays on individual authors one always runs the risk of sub-consciously repeating ourselves. Suffice to say that Millicent is not only […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World

Opinion: Democratic freedom will prevail after elections – Portugal

23 January 2022

By Len Port In the run-up to Portugal’s national legislative election, it’s worth remembering that this country is internationally recognized as a stable parliamentary democracy with a multiparty political system and free and fair elections every four years – except the timing of this latest is different. The Prime Minister holds the most executive power […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

COVID’19: The 50,000 daily count infections surpassed – Portugal

19 January 2022

Portugal has surpassed for the first time the barrier of 50,000 daily COVID’19 cases this Wednesday, since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the Portuguese health authority, in the last 24 hours, the country recorded 52,549 more cases of infection and 33 fatalities. Of the new cases of infection recorded today 22,455 occurred in […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Portugal

Netflix: Five films by five Portuguese women directors and producers – Portugal

17 January 2022

Starting in January 2022, Netflix will feature five films by five Portuguese women directors and producers – Catarina Vasconcelos, Raquel Castro, Margarida Gil, Marta Ribeiro and Maria Clara Escobar – on partnership with Portuguese Film Academy. The five films were selected by a jury, aiming at giving more visibility to women who have been involved […]

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Posted in Community, Entertainment, Featured, Film, Heritage, Portugal, World

Travel: British Airways direct flights to São Miguel and Terceira – Azores

12 January 2022

British Airways has announced plans to fly non-stop from London Heathrow to São Miguel and Terceira islands in the Azores. The São Miguel route will start on July 2 and will run until September 3, while services to Terceira will run from July 10 until August 28. The airline will fly to the islands once […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World