15 March 2011
Atlantis, the lost mythical island believed to have existed in the Atlantic Ocean, where the Azores are today, may have been found. A team lead by Richard Freund, researcher at the University of Hartford, claims that a submerged island was discovered north of Cadiz, Spain. They believe this could be the lost island of Atlantis […]
14 March 2011
Portugal is among the first 10 countries in the world to allow same-sex marriage. The first same-sex marriages took place in the Netherlands on April 1, 2001. The countries that followed were Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland and Argentina. Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva approved the law authorizing same-sex marriages on […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Politics, Portugal
14 March 2011
The Toronto School Board, in Canada, is considering segregating Portuguese students in a separate school in an attempt to lower the 33 percent dropout rate, the highest of any ethnic group in the city. In the meantime Toronto District School Board trustees have voted to establish a task force to examine why graduation rates are […]
14 March 2011
Temperatures fell sharply in mid-Atlantic this past weekend with snow falling in both archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, where temperatures registered below minus 4 centigrade, the lowest in the last 40 years. In Madeira snow fell Sunday afternoon attracting sightseers to Poiso and Pico do Arieiro. In the Azores snow fell in the mountainous […]
Posted in Azores, Madeira, Pico, Santa Maria, São Miguel
14 March 2011
Amid popular unrest Portugal announced Friaday new fiscal measures aimed at reducing the need for foreign financial assistance. Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos said that Portugal would tighten austerity measures to ensure it meets its deficit reduction targets. The plan includes cuts in state pensions and reductions in health spending, unemployment benefits and other welfare […]
Posted in Politics
14 March 2011
Faced with a $42 million cut in public funding, the University of California Berkley announced the elimination of basic instruction in Portuguese, Russian, Swahili and Japanese, while adding more than 30 new foreign language courses to its offerings. Beginning in 2011-12, over $500,000 will go towards supporting an additional eight Chinese courses, six Spanish courses, […]
Posted in Education
