06 November 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) British expats in Portugal could be excused for wincing at recent utterances by Prime Minister David Cameron. In declaring that he was drawing a “red line” on the number of unskilled immigrants flooding into the UK, Mr Cameron said he would be demanding restrictions on freedom of movement within the EU. […]
06 November 2014
For a few months a group of immigrants resident in the United States and Canada and with origins in the Azorean islands has been formed to lobby members of the administration of SATA airlines to try to resolve several problems that they are very much concerned about. Despite the complaints presented by “Clientes insatisfeitos da SATA” […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Travel
05 November 2014
The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces a free concert by Doppio Ensemble. The event will take place at 6:00pm in Room 153 of the Center for Visual and Performing Arts on November 18, 2014, parking lot 9. This performance is followed by a second concert to be will be […]
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31 October 2014
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) Katherine Vaz is the author of two novels: Saudade and Mariana; and two collections of short fiction: Fado and Other Stories and Our Lady of the Artichokes. The literary critic Vamberto Freitas praised Saudade as the first Portuguese-American novel to receive “significant attention from the American literary world,” and […]
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31 October 2014
The risk of an Ebola outbreak in Portugal is low but it could increase significantly if the epidemic reaches Guinea-Bissau which still remains free of the disease. Portugal would be at greater risk due the large number of people from its former west Africa colony living in the country. “If the epidemic invades Guinea-Bissau the […]
Posted in Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
29 October 2014
The traditional Cante Alentejano, a polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal, was designated by UNESCO to be listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The decision will be deliberated by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage during a meeting taking place on November 24 and 28 in Paris, France. The […]
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