Sources : Diário de Notícias 14/11/2007
EasyJet pressures British operators to launch package holidays with low cost flights.
The start of the low cost flights coming from British airports to Madeira, in particular EasyJet, is putting some pressure on the traditional holiday companies, unable to compete with some very attractive prices. It reports that interest in Madeira is high within the UK travel industry, and that officals are well pleased with business so far and prospects for the future.
Mosquitos attack the Police of the Regional Command Centre, who complain about the bites of the ‘Aedes Aegypti’ .
It appears that even the Police are not exempt or immune to the bites of the mosquitos. The newly arrived mosquito species does not know the limits of its territory nor shows any respect to theose in uniform. In the last two weeks, the infamous insects targeted the offices of the PPS and left their mark on whoever got in their way, with the office staff getting the brunt of the problem.
Those cops who we normally see equipped with pepper gas, firearm, public beating stick, and handcuffs, had to be equipped with insecticide in order to have an effective defence armoury.
The invading mosquitos, which arrived in Santa Luzia some two years ago, have so far defeated all attempts by the authorities to erradicate them, and are now making their way to pastures new.
As an occasional victim of the previous ruling tribe of the old type of mosquito, … yes you know, the ones that only bite foreigners .., I can’t help feeling a little smug about this story. On the downside, I have been unable to procure supplies of my regular brand of mosquito spray from Modelo for some months now.
