26 July 2012
A total of 239 elementary public schools across Portugal will close down after the summer holidays, the Ministry of Education announced. “In every case, these closings are taking place in conjunction with the respective local authorities and are designed to enhance the quality of teaching,” the official press released explained, adding that the teachers and […]
Posted in Azores, Education, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, Spotlight
24 July 2012
By Billie Maciunas, Contributor (*) Florbela Espanca (1894-1930) is one of Portugal’s most known and loved poets. I became interested in Florbela’s poetry after hearing her poem “Amar” sung by the Fado singer Cidália in Lisbon in 1979. I was captured by the ineffable quality of the poem and have been translating her poetry ever […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal
24 July 2012
Alexandre Lopes, a Pre-K, Special Education teacher at Carol City Elementary School was named the 2013 Florida Department of Education/Macy’s Teacher of the Year Award. Lopes, who is studying for a doctorate in special education at Florida International University, is originally from Brazil. “He performs magic in his classroom every day, sharing his wonderful skills […]
23 July 2012
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) When Jeffrey S. Bennett, a professor of sociology and religious studies, first visited Portugal in 1996, quite by accident he made a stop at Fátima on July 13. It was the seventy-ninth anniversary of one of the most celebrated Marian apparitions there. That weekend, more than a quarter million Portuguese […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Politics, Religion, World
22 July 2012
Conservation biologist Diogo Veríssimo is the winner of the IUCN – Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award for 2012. The award is sponsored the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in partnership with the Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor environmental journalism across the globe. For the first time, the search was conducted via Facebook which […]
Posted in Awards, Education, Featured, People, Portugal, World
20 July 2012
According to data released by the Bank of Portugal (BP) Thursday, remittances sent home from the Portuguese leaving abroad showed a 17.7% surge in the first five months of this year, breaking the Euro 1,049. 3 million mark, compared to the same period in 2011. Yet, according to the source, in the first five months […]
