12 November 2013
A petition sponsored by the Portuguese-American Citizenship Project (PACP) was posted on Facebook to stop the proposed reduction of US military presence at Lajes Air Force Base, on Terceira, Azores. The initiative urges Portuguese-Americans to undersign the petition requesting Congress to continue supporting Lajes Air Force Base on Terceira. Petition Background For more than six […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
11 November 2013
Jocelino Rodrigues, 19, is one of the top four UK finalists who will compete December 1 for astronaut training in the AXE Apollo Space competition at the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Born in Porto, Portugal, Rodrigues is a 2nd year Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Bristol, UK. He will spend the […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
11 November 2013
The Open University of Portugal and Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA, are jointly launching their first International Graduate Certificate Program in Portuguese Global Studies. Starting January 2014, the program is oriented mainly toward: (i) Portuguese heritage-descendents in the United States who want to reconnect with their family background origins or just want to acquire additional […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Genealogy, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
09 November 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal is in the middle order of world rankings when it comes to gender inequality. The gap is closing in several key areas, but there is little chance of this country ever catching up with remarkable developments in Sweden. As one of the world’s most equal countries, Sweden has reached […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal
07 November 2013
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, the United States House of Representatives passed unanimously an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that “prohibits the Air Force from reducing the force structure at Lajes Field in Fiscal Year 2014.” However, according to a community alert statement released Tursday by the National Organization of Portuguese Americans (NOPA), “Although […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Terceira
06 November 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) When Scotland Yard launched its Madeleine McCann investigation, it called for ‘restraint’ from the British media. Meanwhile, a Portuguese law forbids police here from divulging inside information about on-going criminal investigations. So how come newspapers in both Britain and Portugal have identified and published sensational stories about another implausible ‘prime […]
