The Original Madeira Island News Blog
Portugal is to suspend flight connections with the UK from tomorrow, Saturday, January 23. Reuters report that Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said yesterday that all flights to and from Britain would be ............
Thanks as usual to the blog’s resident nautical expert, Jaime, who has “fleshed out” the details in the earlier post about the start of the last phase of the new Madeira cable link to the mainland.
Jaime reports that the “Ile de Seine” had been “on his radar’ for ............
JM reports that due to the impending curfew, the main exits from Funchal were, at around 6:30 pm tonight, completely blocked and circulation on the expressway was very slow, in both directions.
The curfew tonight is scheduled to start at 7:00 pm, with business establishments instructed to close at ............
The Diario reports that a councillor belonging to the CDS party in Câmara de Lobos has asked: “the authorities to be relentless and to reinforce the inspection”. The statement follows the meeting of the city council executive. Amílcar Figueira regrets that we continue to make the same ............
CNN report that Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal in Juventus’ Italian Super Cup win over Napoli on Wednesday took his career scoring tally to 760, making him the highest goalscorer of all time – or is he?
Ronaldo, the 35-year-old Madeiran, is Portugal’s leading goalscorer with ............
The Diario reports that the President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque, will tomorrow attend the final ............
The BBC reports this morning that anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19
The tour operator, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers’ health and safety. It also announced that it would delay restarting ............
The Diario website reports that the representative of the Republic of Portugal in Madeira, Ireneu Barreto, said today that he is “concerned” about the increase in cases of COVID-19 in the region, so he ordered ............