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Belize Stops Vulcan Firm by Forbidding Mining
(Photo by Amandala) Senior officials within Prime Minister John Briceno’s administration took a collective policy decision that no...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 8, 202214 min read


"Ecotopia" Trashes 40-Hour Workweek
Northern California, Oregon and Washington, secede from the U.S. as Ecotopia. Futuristic novels such as George Orwell’s 1984, Ray...

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Sep 4, 202213 min read


Portugal: Have Your Say on Lithium Plant by September 13
For fixed contracts, the annual average U.S. lithium carbonate price was $17,000 per ton in 2021, more than double that in 2020, reported...

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Aug 28, 202213 min read


Heart of Dom Pedro I on Show in Portugal, Then Brazil
A queue of hundreds already had lined up at a church in Porto an hour and a half before its doors opened on August 20 to view what few...

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Aug 21, 20225 min read


Belize Boosting Coconut Industry; Buying Seeds From Brazil
Harvested coconuts in Belize Belize plans to buy 36,000 disease-tolerant and high-yielding coconut seeds from Brazil, which is in keeping...

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Aug 18, 202212 min read


Belize Rising Above Sargassum Swamp
“This year has been the worst on record. . . . We don’t know if this is the new normal. This has been devastating for over a decade.” A...

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Aug 11, 20229 min read


More Droughts, Less Grapes for Portugal, Spain
The Azores high, or Azores anticyclone, is a high-pressure system that can block wet weather fronts to the Iberian Peninsula and is...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Aug 1, 202210 min read


Portugal: Save Water, Ease Drought
“We don’t control what the weather does, but we can control what we do with time. One minute a day, let’s turn the tap dry.” An official...

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Jul 28, 20223 min read


Pessoa’s "Disquiet": “Strange", "Sublime" and Portuguese
Looking in the mirror, Pessoa says he saw several times what appeared to be the heteronyms, his “face fading out” and replaced by the one...

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Jul 27, 202210 min read


Portugal’s Oldest Woman Dies at 113, Outliving a King, 2 Pandemics and 2 World Wars
Encarnaçao Sousa died at 113 years and 123 days old The last king of Portugal, Dom Manuel II, sat on the throne of Portugal in Lisbon...

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Jul 22, 20222 min read


Portugal's Fires: "No One Is Safe"
Fighting a fire that burned a shed of firewood beside a house in Macieira (Photo by Paulo Novais/Lusa) Wildfires raged over much of...

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Jul 17, 20225 min read


Savannah Lithium Suffers Blow in Portugal and London
Location of the proposed Mina do Barroso (Savannah Resources) Savannah Resources sustained a setback when the Portuguese Environment...

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Jul 7, 20225 min read


Angela Merkel to Chair Portugal’s Gulbenkian Prize Jury
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, at one time one of the world's richest people, was most proud of his art collection and his role as a...

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Jul 5, 202214 min read


Belize at U.N. Ocean Summit; Guterres Speaks Portuguese
U.N. Secretary-General Guterres (center, lowest row) with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa As a native son of Lisbon, the United Nations...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 27, 20223 min read


Portugal: Number of Foreign Residents Rises for 6th Year
Geographical distribution of foreign residents (From Immigration, Borders and Asylum Report 2021 ) published by Serviço de...

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Jun 25, 20226 min read


Shameful Abortion Ruling
By the internationally acclaimed political cartoonist, Andre Carrilho Abortion is not a religious issue. It is not a partisan issue....

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Jun 24, 20221 min read


Stonehenge Lures Thousands for Summer Solstice
Thousands flocked to the mysterious rings of stones at Stonehenge for the summer solstice (June 21), when the rays of the rising sun...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 21, 20221 min read


Portugal, U.K. to Celebrate World’s Oldest Alliance of 650 Years
PM Boris Johnson presented PM Antonio Costa with the original treaty at 10 Downing Street (Photo by Jornal de...

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Jun 17, 20227 min read


Belize PM Briceño Blasts U.S. Summit for Snub of Cuba, Venezuela
“The summit belongs to all the Americas. It is incomprehensible that we isolate countries of the Americas that have provided strong...

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Jun 10, 20225 min read


Eucalyptus: A Fire Plague to Most, Profit to Few
Armando Carvalho removed eucalyptus trees from his family’s 12 hectares of land in Santa Comba Dão, where the Great Fire of October 2017...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 7, 202217 min read
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