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Portugal: Immigrants Break Records for Taxes, Births, Citizenship
"If you are from Bangladesh, you receive 32 percent less" in pay than a national. Not even the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the increase of...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 21, 202110 min read


How to Save Portugal From “Demographic Suicide”
Portugal has the third oldest population, after Japan and Italy. (Photo by Ana Baiao) Portugal’s fast-aging population shocked experts...

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Dec 20, 20215 min read


From Cairo to L.A.: Van-Leo’s Photo Exhibit Erases Differences Between East and West
Self-portrait His photographs of Egyptian cinema giant Omar Sharif and other actors popularized his name. Van-Leo would make each sitter,...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 19, 20215 min read


Portugal: Children COVID-19 Vaccines Start This Weekend
A three-month program for voluntary vaccination of children 5 to 11 years old against COVID-19 is scheduled to start on the weekend of...

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Dec 13, 20215 min read


Mark Bradford’s Art Giving Shelter in Portugal
The artist with one of his pieces inspired by the medieval tapestries, The Hunt of the Unicorn (Photo by Rui Duarte Silva) Creative...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 10, 202111 min read


Pedrógão Fire: “Failure of Strategy”
The former director of the Civil Protection Agency testified that there was a “delay in setting up the command post” in the horrific...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 7, 20213 min read


Belize Giving Away $60,000 in Vaccine Raffles
Mr. Sidney Russell rounding up his horses and cattle on his land at Bermuda Landing When visiting Bermuda Landing many years ago, my...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 3, 20214 min read


Pedrógão´s “Out-of-the-Ordinary” Fire Conditions
Two schist stones that saved several in the fire became a memorial to 11 villagers and a “monument to life” in Nodeirinho one year later....

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 1, 20213 min read


Portugal Ramps Up COVID-19 Boosters, Restrictions
Prime Minister Antonio Costa said that he “regretted” the increased deaths and hospitalizations. As the number of new COVID-19 infections...

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Nov 27, 20214 min read


Pedrógão Housing Trial: “Giant With Feet of Clay”
"People in shock, traumatized, lost and confused” “A giant with feet of clay”, a defense attorney called the trial of alleged...

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Nov 25, 20213 min read


Portugal: Have Your Say on Lithium Mining by December 10
Upper plateau of Serra da Estrela (Photo by Interpretation Center of Serra da Estrela (CISE-Seia) A few years from now, frolicking in the...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 22, 202118 min read


Pedrógão Housing Trial: "Clean Hands" of 2 Ex-Officials
The Pedrógão Grande fire housing trial is looking for scapegoats, the defense lawyer said in his closing arguments on November 18. Bruno...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 18, 20212 min read


Belize's COVID-19 Vaccine Rate Doubles
When I would get frustrated at accomplishing a task, my mother would say to me in Belizean Kriol, “When yuh nuh have Mami, use Daddy.” In...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 14, 20215 min read


Pedrógão Fire Rebuild: State Wants Jail for 2 Ex-Officials
Pedrógão Grande ex-President Valdemar Alves (Photo by Fernando Fontes/ Global Imagens ) The prosecution asked for the imprisonment of...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 11, 20212 min read


Why an Olive Branch Is Sign of Peace
The tree outside my back door I look upwards only during the olive harvest. Standing under the silvery green leaves of a tree, it seems...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 9, 20212 min read


Pedrógão Trial: Fire Chief Did All He Could, Expert Says
The June 2017 fire devastated Escalos Fundeiros village in Pedrógão Grande municipality. An expert witness in the Pedrógão Grande fire...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 9, 20213 min read


Pedrógão's “Tunnel of Flames” Caused by System Failure
Most of the deaths occurred on National Road 236-1, which connects Castanheira de Pera and Figueiró dos Vinhos. ...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 4, 20213 min read


Journalist Who Risked Filming East Timor Massacre Dies
“When the Indonesians began shamelessly killing, stabbing, beating, of course, I had to film.” Max Stahl, a British journalist who filmed...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 30, 20215 min read


Taboo Artist Paula Rego’s Show at Tate Sold-Out
In Time – Past and Present, she takes classical painting and structure and symbols, and she subverts them to reflect the female...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 23, 20215 min read


Portugal Honors WWII Consul Sousa Mendes Who Saved Thousands of Jews
Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a telegram from dictator Salazar (Courtesy of Sousa Mendes Foundation) (This story was published originally...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 20, 20218 min read
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