21 February 2011
Thousands of people packed churches across Madeira on Sunday February 20, to mark the first anniversary of the devastating floods which killed 42 and left more than 100 injured and about 600 homeless. One year ago on February 21, floods in Madeira swept everything in their path, people, cars, homes and business. But one year […]
20 February 2011
The Hawaii Island Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (HIPCC) announced the Dennis G. Aguiar Portuguese Day-in-the-Park event to take place at Gilbert Carvalho Park, in Hilo, on Sunday March 6, from 9am. to 1pm . The event is held each year by the HIPCC to celebrate the Portuguese cultural heritage in the state of Hawaii with […]
Posted in Heritage, Organizations
17 February 2011
The online blog Comunidades, hosted by the RTP-Azores website, is celebrating its 3rd anniversary. According to the publishers Irene Maria F. Blayer (Canada) and Lélia Pereira da Silva Nunes (Brazil) the Comunidades blog is followed with much interest by thousands of readers in the Azorean immigrant communies worldwide. Comunidades has published to date more than 730 […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Organizations, World
17 February 2011
The Society for News Design (SND) has named the Portuguese i online newspaper the world’s best designed paper . Judges in the 32nd annual Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition said “It’s compact. It’s fresh. It’s consistent, yet full of surprises. Its magazine-like size allows the reader to hold the newspaper close; the format invites the […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, World
15 February 2011
The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) launched a support service to help victims of domestic violence and sexual assault for Portuguese speakers in the greater Boston and Lowell areas. The Juntas Project (Women Together Project) is a partnership between community organizations under a 2-year grant from the Office on Violence Against Women at the […]
Posted in Community, Organizations
13 February 2011
A study in 25 European countries revealed that Portugal leads the ranks in terms of the highest percentage of children owning a laptop with 65 percent of kids having their own, in comparison to the European average of 24 percent. As a result Portugal is also the country where the greatest number of young girls […]
Posted in Education
