Another cruise ship cancels
AIDAnova crew have Coronavirus
Thanks to resident nautical expert Jaime, who is keeping an eye on marine traffic around Madeira, it looks like another cruise ship has pulled out of … Read more
Year: 2021
Johnson’s Omicron gamble
Pandemic “superspreader” event tonight
A well-written piece of analysis in The Times this morning describing how Boris Johnson’s Omicron gamble is facing a critical New Year’s Eve test:
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Cruise ship cancels
‘Amera’ cancels after Covid cases onboard
The ship ‘Amera’, which was to join twelve other cruises to watch the fireworks tomorrow, cancelled its scheduled visit to Madeira for the New … Read more
New Year’s Eve sees 794 new cases
Lockdown in New Year?
New Year’s Eve in the archipelago sees a huge rise in the number of positive cases to a record 794 recorded in the previous 24 hours … Read more
Mother kidnaps boys to avoid vaccination
Call for Spanish government to stop vaccinating children
Vaccination avoidance: Both The Times and The Telegraph reports that Spanish police are searching for two boys whose … Read more
Flights increase to Madeira
Record number of direct connections
JM reports that the region’s airports will end the year with a new record of direct flights connecting to the archipelago. In December alone flights from … Read more
Russian connection
Madeira Airport adds new connection
The Madeira News website, with its automated news feed incorporating Google translate, has picked up a report that Madeira Airport has a new flight … Read more
Marine biodiversity investigated
in Porto Santo documentary
The Diario reports that today, at 9:50 pm, the documentary MARE@Porto Santo 2020 will be broadcast on the local TV Channel RTP-Madeira, a work … Read more
Covid numbers continue to grow
371 new cases and a death per day
JM has, in relatively “fine print” on its front page, the news that the Region yesterday announced yet another new record 371 … Read more
Azores occupancy under 50% for New Year
Cancellations after testing enforced
Açoriano Oriental report that the representative for the Azores Hotel Association, Fernando Neves, said today that he expects an occupancy rate of less than 50% for … Read more
EU stops recognising British blue badges
… Portugal included
MSN News reports that British disability blue badges are no longer being recognised in major holiday destinations across Europe thanks to the fallout from Brexit, the government … Read more
“Children must be vaccinated”
says Health Secretary
The Diario reports that Regional Secretary of Health and Civil Protection, Pedro Ramos has again said that he … Read more
COVID-19: Another record high
… and Madeira moves to “extremely high risk” level
Both local papers lead with the headline that the Region reached a new record high yesterday when 325 cases in the … Read more
New Year’s Eve schedule
Events slightly different to usual
Many readers have been in touch asking that the blog takes the emphasis away from Coronavirus/vaccine-related controversy and try and re-introduce Madeira-related items. Among them … Read more
PCR test rip-off continues
‘Alphabet hacking’ still used to rip off travellers
Having travelled quite a lot recently, and speaking to others that have come to Madeira from the … Read more
Omicron may be dominant in Madeira
No official figures yet …
There is still no official data, but the Regional Secretary of Health and Civil Protection, Pedro Ramos admitted today to the newspaper JM that, like … Read more
Double murder: “many questions still open”
Murderer drove 44km to Ponta de São Lourenço with police “on his tail”
The Portugal Resident has a neat summary of a story of a double murder that has been … Read more
Costa: “war is not over”
Portuguese PM’s Christmas speech
The Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, in his traditional Christmas message yesterday, highlighted that the war against COVID-19 is not over, considerinng it essential to continue … Read more
COVID-19: Christmas sees new high
295 new positive cases
On Christmas day, 295 new cases of COVID-19 infection were reported in Madeira, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic. The Region now counts … Read more
Funchal, Machico and Porto Santo at “extreme risk”
264 new cases in Madeira yesterday
Press agency Lusa, quoted in the Diario report that Portugal currently has 151 municipalities at very high and … Read more
Funchal port full again
Covid tests over Christmas
The Azamara, pictured in the foreground, joined the Saga “Spirit of Discovery” and the Tui “Marella Explorer” in Funchal port today. Whilst the other two … Read more
Market Night spreads across Funchal
Tight security evident
JM reports that far from the affluence of the years before the pandemic, Market Night in Funchal returned to the traditional way, limited to the … Read more
Comments to be manually approved
… for a while
The blog seems to have been targeted for a few weeks with a deluge of Comments from conspiracy theorists on the subject of vaccinations against Coronavirus. … Read more