The Original Madeira Island News Blog
The Diario reports that Funchal City Council (CMF) has begun to deliver free composters to the municipality’s families who have gardens, following the campaign launched last … Read more
A number of people, including passengers, contacted the blog after the Wind Star docked in Funchal and showed little inclination to leave as planned. … Read more
Portugal’s monthly minimum wage is to increase to €635 for 2020, up from €600 in 2019, the country’s government has announced in a decree
JM reports that Ana Barbosa, TUI’s director of operations for Madeira and Porto Santo, has expressed her concern about the constraints of Madeira Airport, which is … Read more
The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources last week acquired the deeds relating to two more parcels of land included in the ‘Fire … Read more
The Portugal News and Publico both report that an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter scale was felt on Thursday, 21 … Read more
Rampa da Camacha will take to the road today, the final scoring event for the AMAK 2019 Regional Ramp Trophy.
The … Read more
FN report that the 2019 Fun Fair has already arrived again at Pier 8/Praça do Povo, on the Funchal seafront, and assembly is … Read more
The Diario reports that it tried the new Uber service in Madeira for the first time yesterday. Between 1:00 … Read more
At the same time as the Sousa Group is seeking to terminate its summer ferry connection to the mainland, the Diario reports … Read more
The mayor of Funchal, Madalena Nunes, who oversees the area of Culture, was present yesterday afternoon at the opening session of the Alírio Diaz Guitar … Read more
The rain that has been correctly predicted here for some time duly arrived yesterday morning – very heavy in some areas. It … Read more
The automated newsfeed and auto-translate website madeiraisland.news has picked up a report that an earthquake with a magnitude of 3 on the Richter scale … Read more
Following up on yesterdays post about the planned meeting between the President of Madeira and the central authorities in Lisbon, the Diario reports that … Read more
Both newspapers report on the publication of the Michelin Guide for the Iberian region which took place this last night at the … Read more
The Diario leads with the story that the Madeiran Shipping Company (ENM) wants to terminate the ferry contract for the link to the … Read more
The Diario website reports on a “very important and necessary work”, which was how the Regional Secretary of Equipment … Read more
As Jaime predicted on this blog a week ago it looks like tomorrow’s weather in Madeira will be affected by the strengthening Jetstream … Read more
JM report that a burst water pipe at the bottom of Rua 31 de Janeiro in the centre of Funchal aroused the attention of many people … Read more
The Diario reports that shipowner GSLINES, from Grupo Sousa, today acquired the ship “Rebecca S” to reinforce maritime lines between Portugal and Autonomous Regions of … Read more
easyJet announced at the start of this week that it is relaunching its package holiday business as it looks to increase customer numbers and
The Diario reports Prime Minister, António Costa, receives on Wednesday, in São Bento, his official residence, the presidents of the regional governments … Read more
Having just reported on one environmental effort to be applauded, with easyJet aiming to become net-zero carbon, another environmentally positive announcement has joined the good … Read more
Porsche Following up on