21 April 2013
Social democrat (PSD) Berta Cabral, 60, the former mayor of Ponta Delgada city, and former candidate for President of the Government of the Azores, was appointed Secretary of State of Defense by Portugal’s central government. She will be sworn on Monday, April 21. Cabral was defeated by the Socialist Party (PS) candidate, Vasco Cordeiro, 39, […]
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20 April 2013
The movie “The Argentinian Lesson”, by Polish film director Wojcech Staron, won Best Foreign Film Award at the 2nd Panazorean International Film Festival, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, April 11 through April 20. The movie “O Deportado” [The Deportee], by film director Nathalie Mansoux, won the National Film Award at the festival. Documenting the lives of […]
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20 April 2013
United States Ambassador to Portugal, Allan Katz, will lead a delegation from Portugal to Massachusetts later this month. This visit, sponsored by The World Class Cities Partnership and SATA Airlines, aims to increase business links between Portugal and the Bay State. From April 28 through May 2, delegates from Portugal, including the Azores Islands, will […]
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18 April 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) By our standards, here in the far south of Portugal it had been a long, wet winter. Then suddenly, from one day to the next at the end of last week, spring finally burst forth. Bee-eaters, our most flamboyantly coloured nesting birds, have returned from Africa and are hawking for […]
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17 April 2013
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) Best-known for being the last person to interview filmmaker extraordinaire Alfred Hitchcock, Portuguese-American writer Stephen Rebello is also known for his own movies, books, interviews and articles. His writing career began in the late 1970’s when Rebello, on an extended trip to Los Angeles (during a break from his work […]
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15 April 2013
Joe Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit a contract killing. The New Bedford-born mobster was a proud Portuguese, not Sicilian, but his dream to be part of La Cosa Nostra proved so strong that he thought he could […]
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