10 April 2021
Judge Ivo Rosa has ruled on Friday against former Portugal’s prime minister, José Sócrates, on a trial involving 189 crimes of corruption. According to the rule, most charges were dismissed. Only 17 charges will go on to court. The 17 charges include money laundering and falsifying documents. The crimes also involve 28 co-defendants, of which […]
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09 April 2021
TAP Air Portugal has announced it will gradually restore, by August, flight operations to 879 flights per week on 100 routes worldwide, including the United States and Canada. Accordingly, the Portuguese airline will operate 51 additional flights a week from North America to Lisbon from Boston, Newark, Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Toronto and […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, Travel, World
01 April 2021
Portugal has excluded former emigrants, who choose the Azores and Madeira as their return destination, from benefiting from the same incentives offered to mainlander Portuguese, under the “Programa Regressar” [Return Program] created to attract Portuguese expatriates to return home. The incentives help to pay for the costs of returning, for willing returnees and their families, […]
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31 March 2021
Fado is the story of a young singer, Luisa, who arrives home to her apartment in Surrey, BC, to find her mother, Rosida, collapsed on the floor, weeping, because the greatest fado singer of all time, Amalia Rodrigues, has died. Luisa realizes she doesn’t know how to sing a single Portuguese song, because she and […]
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26 March 2021
By Len Port April 12 could be a highly significant day for Portugal’s shattered tourist industry, which is desperate to welcome visitors from abroad as soon as possible. A great many of those potential visitors, who have long been living in lockdown, are desperate to come. On April 12 a British government taskforce will report […]
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24 March 2021
The President of the Regional Government of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, declared today that the development of the Azores represents an asset for the whole country, for its contribution to the international prestige of Portugal. Speaking at the plenary session of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, President Bolieiro said, […]
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