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Yesterday morning a Norwegian flagged sailboat, which was to the south of Ponta São Lourenço, had to be assisted into Funchal by the Captain of the Port in coordination with Funchal Search and Rescue. The 12-metre boat, with crew on board, had requested immediate assistance ............
The Diario reports that in the aftermath of the storms two weeks ago, the Municipality of Funchal, through the company Frente MarFunchal, together with the Portuguese Army, carried out an extensive cleaning operation on Praia Formosa between Doco de Cavacas and the ............
This year Finland takes the top spot as the happiest country as measured by surveys undertaken by Gallup from 2015-2017. Rounding out the rest of the top ten in order of overall happiness are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, ............
Although the Spring Equinox of 2018 only officially occurs tomorrow in the Northern Hemisphere, on Tuesday March 20, in reality spring in Madeira technically occurred four days in earlier, due to the island’s geographical position. This happened last Friday, ............
Latest photos of the monstrosity that is the new Savoy can be found on Skyscrapercity.com dated last week. The latest inside information is that they hope to be open by the end of the year, ............
Following on from a Comment to the latest post, by coincidence the Diario has published recent photos from Porto Santo (attributed to Erica Franco Pictures) showing the latest condition of the beach – one of the “Seven Wonders of Portugal”. I do ............
The Journal reports that the total amount of storm damage caused to public infrastructures by the weather that hit the south coast of Madeira at the end of February and beginning of March has already reached €14.6 million. The numbers were released today by Pedro ............
The vice-president of the Regional Government, Pedro Calado, quoted in the Journal, has said that he is confident that Madeira could have the return of the ferry connection to the continent by summer this year. He also addressed the new request for the postponement ............