The original Madeira island news blog
A regional election is being held on the island(s) today to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election will be the first in which the President of the Region since 1978, Alberto João Jardim (above), will not have his ............
The Portuguese national airline has said that the end of the fuel surcharge for travel between the mainland and Madeira and the Azores (from this coming Sunday) does not automatically mean a lowering of fares by the same amount. The surcharge has been €15 per trip, so a return ............
The Madeira Islands Open has become just the third European Tour event in history to be cancelled after Sunday’s play was washed out at Santo da Serra. The tournament had been reduced to 36 holes for the second year running after the first day was abandoned due to strong ............
Flower Festival approaches again – from 16th to 22nd April. Obviously the main event as usual is on the Sunday (19th) and it is easy to overlook the “Wall of Hope” ceremony on the Saturday morning, which has taken place for over three decades and is intended to raise ............
March 19th to 22nd sees the Madeira Islands Open at Santo da Serra Golf Club – one of the first “European Tour” events of the year actually in Europe, with a purse of $683,000 ($85,383 to the winner). ............
Couple of interesting UK press articles about Madeira recently. The first in the Independent last week featured a tour around part of the island in a vintage Austin 10 Open Road Tourer supplied by Two Ten Classic Tours.
The company run tours and sightseeing around the island in ............
It appeared last week that associates of Cristiano Ronaldo are seeking to have “adjustments” made to the controversial statue on Avenida Sá Carneiro opposite the building earmarked for the new expanded CR7 museum. The family are leading the move for amendments to be ............
The Diario reports today on chaos at the Dr. Nelio Mendonca Hospital, where the X-Ray machine in the Emergency Department has been out of action from last week until yesterday afternoon. Sounds similar to recent reports from the UK where ambulances have been queuing-up outside ............