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
14 March 2011
According to The Harvard Crimson, “Dan Sousa is not a typical animator. Instead of creating films with strong narrative structure and central characters, he prefers to captivate his audience with an immediate visceral reaction.” A Providence-based film-maker Daniel Sousa – born in Cape Verde and raised in Portugal – moved to the United States in […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Cape Verde, Community, Film, People
13 March 2011
The project to build the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Ponta Delgada, Azores, is well underway in partnership with Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The project will connect the Autonomous Region with the ‘Paths Niemeyer’ worldwide. The project was worked out in Brazil between Ponta Delgada’s Mayor, Berta Cabral, and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer […]
Posted in Azores
