The number of unemployed enrolled at the Madeira Institute of Employment was 14,971 people at the end of July 2019, 186 less than the previous month and 899 fewer than a year ago. It is the lowest registered unemployment since August 2010.
At a national level, the Portuguese unemployment rate ............
Press agency Lusa reports that after the reinforcement of the international airport of Lisbon, 16 more e-gates will be installed in Faro airport and 10 in Funchal, followed by Porto.
Assistant Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, Isabel Oneto, told Lusa that “by the end of September, early ............
A Portuguese version of this website (below) has been created using neural machine translation which are very accurate for popular language pairs, including Portuguese. Normal “Google Translate” quality ranks at 6 out of 10, with 10 being a perfect translation. Human translators generally ............
The Diario reports that the Portuguese Secretary of State for Tourism met today with Ryanair, in Dublin, to discuss “the competitiveness” of Faro airport, specifically the maintenance of the base, as well as to extend the airline’s presence to Funchal.
Speaking to press agency Lusa, ............
The Journal (JM) reports that Pingo Doce supermarkets will close earlier than usual tomorrow, Thursday, “from 6:00 pm”, on the “seventh day of death” of the former president of Jerónimo Martins, the company behind the brand name, the supermarket chain has announced on ............
The Diario leads with the story that construction company Tecnovia has been caught stealing stone. The company took advantage of the fact that it is carrying out the expansion work at the final stretch of the Ribeira ............
The Journal reports that the James Arthur concert was a great success last night in Santa Catarina Park, overlooking the bay of Funchal.
After the first song, James Arthur thanked the fans for their reception, saying ‘obrigado’ to the delight of his young admirers. He said it was a ............
Online campaign launched: An American reader has been in touch to report that the Madeira Promotion Association has launched its first online campaign to promote the Archipelago to the US market. He received the following mailshot.
Themed “The Best European Island… see for yourself” and ............