14 February 2021
This is a story about how I got my Portuguese name and learned about Portugal as a child. It begins with my parents, who met in New York City, in 1943, during World War II. He basically picked her up one hot August day on a returning beach train. Each thought the other was attractive. […]
Posted in Angola, Featured, Goa, Heritage, Mozambique, People, Politics, Portugal, World
14 February 2021
There is so much uncertainty about Covid-19 that it’s impossible to predict how tourism will pan out in Portugal or anywhere else this year, but there are pieces of positive information that give rise for some optimism. All sections of the Portuguese tourist industry, which is of huge economic importance to the country, have been […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, People, Portugal, Travel, World
13 February 2021
Senator Marc R. Pacheco (D-Taunton), Massachusetts, announced that he will serve as chair of the newly created State Legislative Climate Alliance established by the Eastern Region of The Council of State Governments (CSG East). The goal of the State Legislative Climate Alliance is to provide nonpartisan education, best practices, and innovative state policy solutions to […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics
07 February 2021
By Len Port In contrast to the recent record high Covid infection and death rates in Portugal, vaccinations have been slow to start, but are now expected to accelerate. Amid a scandal over “queue jumping” by people who were not officially prioritised, a new head of the vaccination task force has started work to ramp […]
05 February 2021
This book represents the first attempt to query the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent between the turn of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In contrast to the longstanding scholarship on the subject as regards […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World
05 February 2021
Portugal has dropped in the Index of Democracy compiled annually by The Economist magazine, to be no longer a “fully democratic country,” back to being in the category of a “flawed democracy.” The main reasons for the drop, result from restrictions in civil liberties imposed by the COVID’19 pandemic and a reduction on active parliamentary […]
Posted in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Mozambique, Organizations, Politics, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, World
