16 March 2019
By Len Port A series of recent events indicate that Portugal is on its way to becoming a major producer and exporter of cannabis for medical purposes. Holigen, a Portuguese company, has joined forces with a Canadian firm and when fully operational next year it could be one of the largest legal cannabis cultivation facilities […]
Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
08 March 2019
TAP Air Portugal marked the International Women’s Day, by honoring Portuguese women’s achievements with a transatlantic Airbus A330neo flight operated exclusively by women. “For the first time in the history of world aviation, the model of the Airbus A330neo was operated by an exclusively female crew. Flight TP089 took off at 10h45 Lisbon, bound for […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel, World
06 March 2019
Portugal has declared March 7, a day of mourning to denounce domestic violence against women. Government buildings would fly flags at half-mast to mark the date. According to a statement by the Minister of the Presidency Mariana Vieira da Silva, in the past 15 years 500 women have died in Portugal victims of domestic violence. […]
31 January 2019
The Roman Catholic Church has announced that Pope Francis will preside to the 2022 World Youth Day to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. The public pronouncement was made at the closure of the World Youth Day held in Panama last week. The World Youth Day, launched by Pope John Paul II, draws hundreds of thousands […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, World
27 January 2019
The John A. and Mary V. Lima Memorial Scholarship Fund in Portuguese Studies of the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies (IPLWS) at Rhode Island College (RIC) will award three scholarships in the amount of $2,000 each, upon satisfactory completion of the required course(s) in the spring semester of 2019, to students active in […]
Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Organizations, Scholarships
23 January 2019
By Len Port Renewed efforts are being made to recover the unique collection of books plundered from Faro by a British military force more than 400 years ago and kept ever since at the University of Oxford. The Faro 1540 Association is at the heart of a request for the return of what it regards […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Portugal, World
