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[00:00:27] Santo, in
[00:00:55] increase for October 21st.
[00:01:16] Charities demand that the government update cooperation agreements
[00:01:20] by the end of the
[00:01:21] month.
[00:01:25] Presidents of the new Azorean houses created this year want to
[00:01:28] establish cultural points.
[00:01:43] called for a demonstration for October
[00:01:49] Welcome to Atlantic news. The charities of
[00:01:52] the Azores want the government to assume its responsibilities and
[00:01:56] update funding by the end of this month at the General Assembly that
[00:02:00] took place in Flores, Bento Barcelos warned that institutions are
[00:02:04] apparently fresh as a daisy when he struggling and having difficulties
[00:02:06] reports that are currently under the paying employees and suppliers.
[00:02:10] 20 of the 23 charities of the Azores met on the island of Flores
[00:02:13] to discuss the financial difficulties
[00:02:16] learn while playing and affecting a social sector. At the end of the meeting, the president of
[00:02:18] the Charities, Bento Barcelos, made an appeal to the governments of the regional
[00:02:21] Republic: it is urgent to update the funding of
[00:02:24] institutions. Since last year there have been enormous difficulties
[00:02:28] in financing the... social sector as far as charities are
[00:02:32] concerned, since last year,
[00:02:35] compared to the funding verified on the continent,
[00:02:39] we only received 60%, and we continue to operate in all
[00:02:43] areas, with the same quality, with the same fulfillment of
[00:02:46] our mission. The official warns that several institutions are facing
[00:02:50] difficulties in meeting financial
[00:02:52] initiative of the municipality of Velas, on commitments, and concern increases with the approach of Christmas bonus
[00:02:55] payment, with parcels also expressing solidarity with
[00:03:00] in workers whose salaries, with the exception of those covered by the regional
[00:03:03] minimum wage, have not been updated, we are
[00:03:06] struggling, there are charities that are
[00:03:09] increased difficulty in fulfilling their responsibilities,
[00:03:13] not only with employees, but also with suppliers,
[00:03:17] we are on the verge of November, which is a month of
[00:03:20] great financial responsibility with the payment of the Christmas bonus, so
[00:03:24] we make a fervent appeal, our position
[00:03:28] taken by the 20...
[00:03:30] charities present here and certainly the
[00:03:33] crisis, the report advocates the three who could not, for justifiable reasons, be with us, that the government
[00:03:35] by the end of this month
[00:03:39] in one of them a pavement of assume its responsibilities in articulation
[00:03:41] with the two governments, negotiate with Urma so that we can
[00:03:45] have the cooperation agreements updated and the funding
[00:03:50] called a demonstration for October enter our institutions. The charities are now demanding a response
[00:03:53] by the end of the month with the updating of cooperation agreements and
[00:03:56] the guarantee of funding to ensure operations. that's what they
[00:04:00] dictate, the agenda, the
[00:04:02] and only two plays to 700 beds in the mental health homes of the Azores are
[00:04:05] insufficient for the daily admissions that reach
[00:04:09] the institutions. on World Mental Health Day, integrated into the open
[00:04:13] week, the institute of the Sisters Hospitallers promoted in
[00:04:16] Angra a conference focused on
[00:04:18] prevention.
[00:04:21] are the face of mental illness on display in the streets of
[00:04:25] Angra to combat stigma. Especially because it is in the
[00:04:28] Azores that the problem worsens, associated with
[00:04:32] social condition, the problem of the poor is poverty, we are a poor region of
[00:04:35] Europe, we have health problems,
[00:04:38] won her 14th career those who have money can access health, accessibility is very important, so
[00:04:41] a population that has
[00:04:44] little, the sufficient income to be able to live, has the hope of tomorrow
[00:04:46] to be able to live better, so it is the social issue that is
[00:04:50] most important to resolve. The sign that precedes mental disorder
[00:04:54] begins with anxiety, with conditions that
[00:04:57] can reach dementia and whose diagnosis
[00:05:01] in the region reaches 5,500
[00:05:04] cases for an inpatient response that is already scarce. while hospitals have
[00:05:08] about 30 psychiatry beds, so the
[00:05:11] hospital institutes in the
[00:05:14] region, eh, are almost 700 beds daily that
[00:05:18] care for people in the area of mental health, therefore, as is obvious, the
[00:05:22] hospital institutes, namely the Hospitaller Sisters of Angra and Heroísmo, eh,
[00:05:25] are requested daily eh with cases that reach
[00:05:29] eh us needing an immediate response. Despite the last update a year ago, of the
[00:05:32] program contracts signed between the health houses and the regional
[00:05:36] executive, the daily rate per user remains below
[00:05:40] 67 spaces with the continent. we are still
[00:05:42] with a large differential in terms of values practiced at the national
[00:05:46] level, at the level of inflation in the Azores
[00:05:49] also happens with quite high values and of course we are still
[00:05:53] behind what is currently practiced at the national level. what is that differential
[00:05:56] currently? at this moment we are talking about a differential of almost
[00:06:00] 40 euros. Miguel Gomes, a mental health
[00:06:03] specialist, at the closing of the open week of the Hospitaller
[00:06:06] Sisters, advocated more teams
[00:06:09] working on prevention on we transformed the
[00:06:13] hospitals on two islands, that is, we need mental health to spread to
[00:06:16] all eh with extended health teams, with doctors,
[00:06:19] nurses, eh, occupational therapists, a whole set of health professionals who
[00:06:23] can satisfy the needs of the population. Waiting for the green
[00:06:26] light for funding, there are projects to be developed by the
[00:06:30] Hospitaller Sisters, one to detect early
[00:06:34] disorders in nursing homes and day
[00:06:37] centers, the other for home care, for cases
[00:06:41] already diagnosed.
[00:06:44] The country was awarded 35.1 million
[00:06:48] euros in the European Union's budget proposal, but wants another 900
[00:06:51] million for the Azores and Madeira. In the proposal for
[00:06:54] 2028-2034,
[00:06:56] Portugal demands the maintenance or updating of the amount.
[00:07:00] Europe enters a new phase of budget discussion, after the
[00:07:04] rotating presidency of the council occupied by Ireland proposed
[00:07:07] on Saturday cuts of 8%
[00:07:11] in the European Commission's multiannual
[00:07:14] budget proposal. The proposed cut is
[00:07:16] 1.62 billion euros for economic,
[00:07:19] social and territorial cohesion, agriculture,
[00:07:22] fisheries and rural communities suffer smaller cuts. The
[00:07:26] largest cuts fall under the heading Global Europe,
[00:07:29] competitiveness, prosperity and security, followed by
[00:07:33] administration.
[00:07:39] A study carried out by the Order of Architects concluded that... the Azores are facing a
[00:07:43] serious housing crisis. The document was submitted to the government and advocates the creation
[00:07:47] of a regional housing
[00:07:48] plan.
[00:07:52] It is a bleak scenario for many families. Finding
[00:07:55] a home is increasingly difficult according to a report
[00:07:59] by the Order of Architects, researchers and specialists,
[00:08:03] it constitutes a true state of emergency. All
[00:08:06] of us are aware of the prices that are being practiced in the market and that not every
[00:08:10] family, every citizen
[00:08:13] can acquire a home today and it becomes concerning when more and more
[00:08:17] eh society is dependent on financial
[00:08:21] support, there is little public housing available that
[00:08:24] is capable of responding to the needs
[00:08:28] of a region that is one of the poorest regions in the country. The
[00:08:32] other problem has to do with the dynamics of the rental market and the
[00:08:36] buying and selling market that is
[00:08:39] being conditioned by internal and
[00:08:42] external dynamics in the face of the serious
[00:08:46] creation of a regional housing plan, it should be understood as a
[00:08:50] strategic movement eh and that should adopt concrete,
[00:08:53] specific measures with predictability, so
[00:08:55] associated with this plan there must also be a budget, there must be
[00:08:59] financing so that there can be implementation, to
[00:09:02] accompany this plan what we recommend is the establishment of the regional
[00:09:05] housing council there yes eh civil
[00:09:09] society so that it can eh effectively be obtained.
[00:09:13] Lack of housing affects various social strata and demands
[00:09:17] urgent responses, the
[00:09:19] recommendations are given to encourage the establishment
[00:09:23] of housing cooperatives, another measure that may be
[00:09:26] implemented is the regulation of local accommodation which
[00:09:29] greatly incentivizes real estate speculation, on the other hand, environmental issues
[00:09:33] are also fundamental, qualifying the public space, the built heritage
[00:09:37] is also fundamental. The challenge now is to transform the diagnosis.
[00:09:40] The report with proposals addressed to
[00:09:43] the government and to
[00:09:45] the municipalities advocates that
[00:09:48] housing should be assumed as a strategic
[00:09:51] development
[00:09:53] priority.
[00:09:56] The new university residences in Ponta Delgada, Horta and Angra
[00:10:00] are already in operation. The director of the social action services
[00:10:03] of the University says that at this moment there are no waiting
[00:10:07] lists and that all requests have been met. In São Miguel,
[00:10:11] students say that there is a general improvement in the conditions of the new
[00:10:14] space.
[00:10:17] Carlota Reis comes from Machico on the island of Madeira and is in her third
[00:10:21] year of her degree in medicine at the University of the Azores.
[00:10:26] in São Miguel, a very beautiful island, then I also made many friends here with people from other
[00:10:30] courses and that's it, that memory will always remain. After
[00:10:33] two years in the old Laranjeiras residence, Carlota applied for the
[00:10:37] new student accommodation and moved in on September 7th,
[00:10:41] the differences are notorious. We have a double
[00:10:45] room, that is, a shared room, we have
[00:10:48] more privacy, since we have two
[00:10:52] rooms within that room, ah.
[00:10:55] Then also the proximity to the
[00:10:58] university is quite good, we are 5 minutes
[00:11:02] walk away, while from the other one we were more or less 20, the study
[00:11:05] room has much more conditions in terms of lighting, it has air
[00:11:09] conditioning, it offers a little more comfort for us to
[00:11:13] study there, I think that's also a plus. André Palma is
[00:11:17] another student who chose São Miguel to study, he comes from
[00:11:20] Sintra and is in his first year of his management degree. The
[00:11:24] conditions. spectacular, I have nothing to complain about, the reception, I was
[00:11:28] received by the security guard, he also
[00:11:31] received me with open arms, I have nothing to complain about, I think it's very
[00:11:35] welcoming, especially this space, even the kitchen
[00:11:39] during the night or during lunch, ah it's always
[00:11:42] possible to socialize a little, meet new people, just yesterday I met
[00:11:46] new colleagues, for both of them entering the
[00:11:49] university residence was the right choice, before coming to this
[00:11:52] residence you looked for rooms eh... you're aware
[00:11:55] of what the housing situation was like here in the region, what did you
[00:11:58] find? No, I didn't look, I applied here, it was
[00:12:01] my first option and I was accepted. Being in a residence
[00:12:05] is much easier and I have
[00:12:08] colleagues of mine who, when they came here, also felt a lot of difficulty in
[00:12:12] finding a room and well, only at the end of the second or third
[00:12:15] year, now they found a room more or less and near the university.
[00:12:19] The new academic year was marked by the entry into operation of
[00:12:23] three new university residences in the poles of
[00:12:26] Ponta Delgada, Horta and Angra do Heroísmo, I can say that in Ponta
[00:12:30] Delgada, this one from Mãe de Deus, we have here 120 beds available for
[00:12:34] students, researchers, teachers, eh, in
[00:12:37] Horta we have a capacity for 50 beds and
[00:12:41] also in Angra, in Pico da Urse there are 100 beds, well, generally they are
[00:12:44] double rooms, but with a typology that you can see
[00:12:48] they will find that the rooms are individualized, well, they
[00:12:51] only share a bathroom and a kitchenette, at this moment I can tell
[00:12:55] you that as of today we do not have students on the waiting list, all
[00:12:58] requests that were made we answered, according to the director of the
[00:13:02] school social action services, the University of the
[00:13:05] Azores received more than 200 applications, a large part
[00:13:08] from students from the mainland and autonomous regions. All
[00:13:12] residences are currently at an occupancy of
[00:13:15] 85%, but with the possibility of accommodating more
[00:13:19] students.
[00:13:22] 7 years later, tuition fees will go up again. It was
[00:13:25] frozen, but from now on it will have to follow
[00:13:28] inflation. In response, student associations have already
[00:13:31] called a demonstration.
[00:13:35] Studying is increasingly expensive. Accommodation,
[00:13:39] food, transport, now joins the increase in tuition fees.
[00:13:42] After 7 years frozen, the value will
[00:13:45] increase and follow inflation. It is a
[00:13:49] path of dismantling higher education, eh, also its
[00:13:52] elitism. This is dangerous. It should not be families
[00:13:56] that should over-indebt and finance higher
[00:13:59] education, this should indeed be an investment for the country, a structural
[00:14:03] investment and in society so that they can have better
[00:14:06] qualifications and we can give more value and produce
[00:14:10] more for our country. Student associations in Lisbon have already
[00:14:15] 21st, there are hundreds of students mobilized in a fight that
[00:14:19] goes beyond this increase. They know what vision we have for
[00:14:23] higher education in that regard.
[00:14:25] "What we want is to fight these successes and seek to advance,
[00:14:29] seek to advance towards the end of tuition fees, seek to advance
[00:14:32] towards free higher education. The government made the same
[00:14:35] proposal in the state budget for 2026, but the intention was
[00:14:39] stopped by the opposition. If it is approved this time,
[00:14:42] the update of tuition fees will apply to undergraduate degrees,
[00:14:46] to professional higher technical courses, the stesp
[00:14:49] to some master's degrees, such as for example teachers. The total
[00:14:53] expenditure on higher education, science and innovation should be around
[00:14:57] 3.9 billion euros, minus
[00:15:00] 7.6% than was expected last year. The cut is mainly due
[00:15:03] to the end of the PRR funds. 125
[00:15:07] million euros, the document points out, should be dedicated to social
[00:15:11] action, housing, success
[00:15:13] and well-being.
[00:15:16] Students from Canada are in São Miguel to study and present proposals
[00:15:20] for the old Sinaga factories. RTP followed one of the study
[00:15:24] visits, it was
[00:15:29] to dignify the past, debate the present and build
[00:15:33] the future, these are first-year master's students in architecture from...
[00:16:30] to help the community and help them learn the importance that this factory
[00:16:34] had in their history. Since early September, students
[00:16:37] have been studying the reports and guiding proposals for
[00:16:41] intervention in the Sinaga factories, as well as learning
[00:16:44] their history through archival documents and digital
[00:16:48] surveys done by Professor Lui Pierre
[00:16:51] Belleque. I, as a professor, am very
[00:16:54] proud of the attention they are
[00:16:57] paying to the details of what they are finding, whether it's in
[00:17:01] culture, whether it's in people, whether it's in vernacular
[00:17:05] architecture, in popular architecture. They are very
[00:17:08] attentive and want to do this work with
[00:17:12] great respect, in a collaboration with the University of Coimbra
[00:17:15] which is also carrying out a study on this heritage, the objective of this
[00:17:19] project is to share the data acquired with the Azorean
[00:17:22] Academy, Regional Government, Regional Section of the
[00:17:25] Azores of the Order of Architects and with the municipalities of Lagoa and Ponta
[00:17:29] Delgada. I hope that above all contemporary, avant-garde,
[00:17:32] innovative ideas emerge, and that they can
[00:17:35] also contribute and complement the work that the regional section developed
[00:17:39] during the participatory process and the preparation of the
[00:17:44] responsibility of the regional government, on the other hand also reinforce the need
[00:17:47] to requalify, to protect these spaces
[00:17:51] eventually also reinforce the need to trigger the classification
[00:17:54] process, in the specific case here of the sugar factory so that this
[00:17:58] heritage is properly protected. The final
[00:18:02] works of this project should be presented in December, the
[00:18:05] students' expectation is to make a...
[00:18:10] The four new Azorean houses created this year were presented
[00:18:14] in Uruguay within the scope of the General Assembly of the World Council. The
[00:18:18] presidents want to create cultural links with the region and with the
[00:18:21] other houses scattered throughout the world.
[00:18:24] Hello, my name is Carlos Boate de Almeida, I am the founding
[00:18:28] president of the Casa dos Açores in Alberta, Canada.
[00:18:31] Hello, I am José Maria Pereira, I am the
[00:18:34] president of the Casa dos Açores in Alentejo, conceded.
[00:18:38] Hello, my name is Hélia Abaá, I am the president of the
[00:18:41] Casa dos Açores of Ceará in Brazil. Hello, I am Jefferson
[00:18:45] de Santos Mendes, I am the president of the Casa dos Açores of Amapá. They are the
[00:18:49] four new sisters of this Azorean network of fraternities.
[00:18:53] In Brazil, there are now two more Houses of the Azores, in
[00:18:56] the states of Ceará and Amapá.
[00:18:59] First House of the Azores in the north of Brazil. First House of
[00:19:03] the Azores in the middle of colonial Amazon, right? the Amazon in a
[00:19:06] general way and it is where we are going to consolidate
[00:19:10] a little all this knowledge of the Azoreans, the
[00:19:13] arrival of the Azoreans is the first place where we will
[00:19:17] receive the Azoreans before the south of Brazil already in the 17th
[00:19:21] century, 1618 already there is a group of Azoreans sent to
[00:19:24] the region of Grão Pará and to Maranhão and we are working on
[00:19:28] the rescue of the memory, of the memory of the Azoreans
[00:19:32] who migrated to Ceará, because this migration is very old.
[00:19:36] We have the first Azorean in Ceará in 1603
[00:19:39] who eh he is the
[00:19:43] commander of the first Portuguese expedition to the
[00:19:47] territory that is today Ceará, we have a Portuguese community, but
[00:19:51] of Azoreans not currently these
[00:19:54] descendants we want to rescue them show them who their
[00:19:58] ancestors were. The Casa dos Açores of the province of
[00:20:02] Alberta in Canada, intends to invest in the revitalization of
[00:20:06] community life. There is already a very
[00:20:10] intense community life, however, the objective is to
[00:20:13] strengthen the initiatives of the Azorean community
[00:20:17] and create a bridge with the other Azorean houses scattered throughout
[00:20:21] the world, we are quite optimistic eh with
[00:20:24] what the government can offer us, but above all what our
[00:20:28] community also has to offer in this rich
[00:20:31] exchange between the government, the local
[00:20:34] community and ... the local Casa dos
[00:20:37] Açores. At the national level, new doors are also
[00:20:41] opening. In the Alentejo region, according to available
[00:20:44] data, there are about 80,000 Azorean
[00:20:47] descendants.
[00:20:54] My relationship with the Azores, especially with São Miguel, is
[00:20:57] long, it's been more than 30 years, so a great
[00:21:01] responsibility. What kind of projects do you have in mind to develop? For
[00:21:04] now we have started, it's recent, very recent, we've just started,
[00:21:08] but they are mainly cultural exchange projects at this moment
[00:21:11] between singing groups, singers going to the
[00:21:15] Azores, singing groups coming to the mainland, to
[00:21:18] the Casa dos Açores. Tejo, cultural exchanges, theater
[00:21:22] too. The presentation of the four new Casas dos Açores was one of the
[00:21:26] highlights of the 28th General Assembly
[00:21:30] of the World Council of Casas dos Açores, which ends this
[00:21:33] Sunday here in São Carlos. João Simas and Rui
[00:21:37] Machado, RTP Açores in
[00:21:39] Uruguay.
[00:21:41] The lack of water quality in Graciosa was once again discussed in the
[00:21:45] Municipal Assembly. The Municipality of Santa Cruz obtained the worst result in the
[00:21:48] region in 2020. in the safe water
[00:21:51] indicator.
[00:21:54] The alerts from the residents led the socialist party to question
[00:21:57] the mayor in the municipal assembly. Almost no one can
[00:22:01] drink the water that comes out of the tap, eh, due to its
[00:22:04] salinity and also the treatments with
[00:22:07] heat that sometimes also reach the
[00:22:10] taps. The leader of the PS bench also read in the ERARA
[00:22:14] report that Graciosa has the worst result in the Azores and
[00:22:17] only 92% of the water is safe. According to the regulatory
[00:22:21] entity, the amount of sodium is high and the presence of
[00:22:24] chlorides is the main problem identified. In
[00:22:27] 2025, 48 analyses were outside the legal
[00:22:31] parameters. In control one, which is the simplest
[00:22:34] control, 48 analyses were
[00:22:37] gave, gave negative
[00:22:41] results. Ah, in control two
[00:22:44] there, only 25, only
[00:22:47] 75% of the analyses were. good, the other 25
[00:22:51] were worse, the mayor recognizes the problem that he himself raised when
[00:22:55] he was in opposition and says that the executive treats this matter with
[00:22:59] total transparency, we must not forget that our
[00:23:01] analyses eh are periodic and are public, everyone
[00:23:05] has access to our analyses and when I say everyone I mean
[00:23:08] namely the regulatory
[00:23:10] entity, eh I mean the health
[00:23:14] authority, so everyone has access to our analyses,
[00:23:17] our water is known for... having great
[00:23:21] saline intrusion, of course it is inadvisable for those who may have
[00:23:24] some problems with blood pressure and
[00:23:27] other associated pathologies. The municipality will apply for community
[00:23:31] funds this year for more network renovation projects, to
[00:23:35] avoid waste and relieve pressure on the abstraction boreholes.
[00:23:38] A working group was also created for a medium-term action plan. I can tell
[00:23:42] you that we met with the university entity very
[00:23:45] recently, to be able to also bring science
[00:23:48] to this working group, the opposition believes
[00:23:52] that regional government investment should also be included in this plan, taking
[00:23:56] into account the high consumption of agricultural explorations, other
[00:23:59] sources of water supply, namely
[00:24:02] rainwater, and to improve springs, improve
[00:24:06] abstractions, even in agricultural explorations, it is also a
[00:24:08] responsibility of IROA to reduce
[00:24:11] pressure on the basal layer, it is important that this starts
[00:24:15] to be done with some urgency so that we do not run the
[00:24:18] risk of this salinization process that is occurring in the
[00:24:22] basal layer becoming almost irreversible in the future. Graciosa has
[00:24:26] few springs at the moment, seven underground abstraction boreholes are in
[00:28:29] greater susceptibility to known divergent movements and for..." we can clearly see
[00:28:33] there the council of the population as being one of the areas with greater
[00:28:36] susceptibility of our
[00:28:37] archipelago,
[00:28:43] but this was not a night only dedicated to
[00:28:47] children, there was also a lecture for the older
[00:28:50] ones with space for questions
[00:28:53] and answers.
[00:29:05] The western group is under yellow alert until 8 pm today, due to
[00:29:08] sometimes heavy precipitation, which may be accompanied by
[00:29:12] thunderstorms. The IPMA issued the same alert for the central group,
[00:29:16] but for the dawn and morning of this Monday, between midnight and
[00:29:19] 9 o'clock.
[00:29:22] Thus we come to the end of the Atlantic news from the Azores.
[00:29:26] Thank you for your company, stay
[00:29:27] well.
[00:30:13] dating violence is increasing in Madeira.
[00:34:30] increasingly more cases of dating violence among young people. The
[00:34:33] director of equality and citizenship services even speaks of a
[00:34:36] setback, when compared to the reality of 10 years ago. The
[00:34:40] alert was left at the first edition of the health
[00:34:43] fair.
[00:34:46] dating violence does not always leave visible marks, there are
[00:34:50] abusive behaviors such as jealousy, control or
[00:34:54] even attempts to limit the other's
[00:34:56] freedom, which are often confused with proofs of love,
[00:35:00] but which can hide an abusive relationship.
[00:35:04] unfortunately, nowadays young people tend to
[00:35:07] studies on this normalize acts
[00:35:10] of violence that are less visible, we have
[00:35:14] that... tendency to associate violence with something physical, a
[00:35:18] black eye or scratch or hair pulling or
[00:35:21] pushing, no, emotional violence,
[00:35:24] psychological blackmail sometimes
[00:35:27] causes much greater damage than physical
[00:35:31] violence itself. the director of equality
[00:35:34] and citizenship services speaks of a setback compared to the
[00:35:38] last decade. there are more cases of dating
[00:35:42] violence, there are more cases.
[00:35:45] of inequalities, boys are
[00:35:48] becoming very chauvinistic, there's that network, you
[00:35:51] must have heard about it, ladies who
[00:35:54] promote that they want
[00:35:57] to have a network, they just want to be good
[00:36:01] wives, good wives, but they forget that to have that network, to
[00:36:04] speak, to exercise their political right, women like
[00:36:08] me, like our grandmothers, had to fight, dating
[00:36:11] violence was one of the topics that marked the
[00:36:15] first edition of the health fair, an
[00:36:18] initiative that aims to strengthen health literacy
[00:36:21] and promote healthier lifestyles,
[00:36:25] this edition appears as an attempt
[00:36:28] to bring our knowledge as health
[00:36:31] professionals from various areas, both doctors, nurses,
[00:36:34] nutritionists, our colleagues from mental health, both
[00:36:38] psychologists and mental health nurses, to bring our
[00:36:41] knowledge outside the walls of the health center in a slightly more
[00:36:44] dynamic way, in the form of a fair
[00:36:48] that is something that especially the Madeiran
[00:36:51] population likes so much, but here
[00:36:55] fair into a more ... The
[00:36:58] health fair runs until Saturday in Câmara de Lobos with several lectures
[00:37:02] at the press museum activities in the square of
[00:37:05] autonomy next to the chamber.
[00:37:08] Seven years later, tuition fees will increase. The value was frozen
[00:37:12] at €697. Now the inflation
[00:37:15] rate is added. The student associations of Lisbon have already called
[00:37:19] for a demonstration against this
[00:37:22] The state budget proposal foresees less funding
[00:37:26] for higher education, science and
[00:37:28] innovation.
[00:37:31] Studying is increasingly expensive, to accommodation,
[00:37:34] food and transport is now added the increase in tuition fees.
[00:37:38] After 7 years frozen, the value will
[00:37:41] increase and follow inflation, it is a
[00:37:44] path of dismantling higher education, and also its
[00:37:48] elitization. This is dangerous, so it should not be families
[00:37:51] who should save and finance higher
[00:37:55] education. This should indeed be an investment. of the country, structural
[00:37:58] investment in society so that those
[00:38:02] qualifications and we can give more value and produce
[00:38:05] more for our country. The student associations of Lisbon have already
[00:38:11] 21st, there are hundreds of students mobilized in a struggle that goes
[00:38:15] beyond this increase. Do you know what vision we have for higher
[00:38:18] education? In this perspective, what we want is to
[00:38:22] combat these setbacks and seek to move forward, seek to
[00:38:25] move forward to the end of tuition fees, seek. to move forward and for the
[00:38:28] gratuity of higher education. The government made the same proposal in the state
[00:38:32] budget for 2026, but the intention was blocked by the opposition.
[00:38:36] If it is approved this time, the updating of tuition fees will
[00:38:39] apply to undergraduate degrees, to higher technical courses,
[00:38:43] professional, the Stesp, and to some master's degrees, as is the case
[00:38:47] of teachers, for example. The total expenditure on higher education, science
[00:38:51] and innovation, should be around 3.9 billion
[00:38:54] euros, 7.6% less than expected.
[00:38:57] last year, the cut is mainly due to the end of PRR
[00:39:00] funds. 125 million euros, the document
[00:39:04] points out, should be dedicated to social
[00:39:06] action, housing, success
[00:39:09] and well-being. Porto Santo was at the fourth
[00:39:13] Atlantic Tourism Journeys, this year, dedicated to
[00:39:16] sustainability. The Journeys are an
[00:39:20] the island of São Jorge, in the Azores, of the municipality of Porto
[00:39:23] Santo, and of the municipality of Sal in Cape Verde.
[00:39:29] Artificial intelligence in tourism, sustainability and
[00:39:33] impact for local populations were the
[00:39:35] topics discussed this year.
[00:39:38] Everyone is concerned about the impact of tourists, the
[00:39:42] Azores emerge with sustainability, the
[00:39:46] nature that everyone wants, and Porto
[00:39:49] Santo presented itself with a digital work. Artificial
[00:39:52] intelligence, all the technology that we are implementing in Porto
[00:39:56] Santo is. It is an initial process, but it can
[00:39:59] really make a difference in terms of social networks, also institutional
[00:40:03] website management, which is what I do, we have sought to
[00:40:06] adapt content to the people who visit us, also seek to
[00:40:10] understand the visitor, make personalized
[00:40:13] campaigns, because I think that's what will make the difference in tourism,
[00:40:17] nowadays everything is so massified, so
[00:40:20] similar that artificial intelligence marks us here
[00:40:23] eh we have to seek to know eh how to identify the
[00:40:26] difference. and preserve our identity, we have to achieve
[00:40:30] a balance here between everything that has to do with
[00:40:33] digital and also personalize, taking into account
[00:40:36] customers, tourists. The municipality wants to overcome
[00:40:40] the sun, seasonality. We
[00:40:42] want to move from a logic of sun and beach to a logic
[00:40:46] of products, throughout the year. We are looking
[00:40:50] to develop Porto Santo in a sustainable
[00:40:53] way,
[00:40:56] taking into account. these are the three fundamental pillars of sustainability:
[00:41:00] to develop Porto Santo economically, to develop
[00:41:04] Porto Santo socially and to be able to conserve
[00:41:08] nature, environmental development as well. We
[00:41:12] want people to feel what Porto Santo is, its
[00:41:15] identity, its culture, its natural
[00:41:18] heritage, its landscapes and that
[00:41:21] they want to return, that they have reasons to choose Porto Santo and that they
[00:41:25] want to return. Identity, culture.
[00:41:40] and these characteristics cannot be found in these destinations,
[00:41:44] those that are what is the lived experience of
[00:41:48] our peoples, what brought us here, I remind you that in the case
[00:41:52] of the islands we were discovered, in the case of the island of Porto Santo, the first Portuguese
[00:41:55] island to be discovered from where the expansion to the
[00:41:59] world began. In 2027 the
[00:42:01] journeys go to Cape Verde and in 2028
[00:42:05] they travel to Porto
[00:42:07] Madeira.
[00:42:09] one. Today was the last day of the nature festival in Chão das
[00:42:12] Feiteiras, tourists and residents participated in several
[00:42:15] activities promoted by Madeira
[00:42:18] tourism.
[00:42:21] Since 2012, Madeira tourism has held the
[00:42:24] nature festival, ah incredible, yes, we've just
[00:42:28] been at the viewpoint at the end, looking at the
[00:42:32] mountains in the fog, oh so
[00:42:34] beautiful.
[00:42:40] exactly where to go, so he said why don't we go to Madeira and then we will join
[00:42:44] you, so we are the four of us, but my
[00:42:46] sister-in-law has
[00:42:49] visual
[00:42:51] problem, so she cannot do the hikes, so we decided to
[00:42:55] do hiking today, and we are doing route here on the
[00:42:58] plateau, and then we came out of the woods and we suddenly
[00:43:01] saw the the little festival here, no nature
[00:43:04] festival, Madeira promoted for 5 days the best
[00:43:08] places on the island, for tourists and for residents to
[00:43:11] visit these activities were in
[00:43:15] Chão das Feiteiras, we have
[00:43:17] workshops, we have a cutting table with
[00:43:21] restaurants and other regional brands, a market
[00:43:24] also with only regional brands, a natural
[00:43:27] soap workshop is happening here, activities for
[00:43:30] children, as it is normal for us to come here
[00:43:33] sometimes in the mountains, we took advantage of the fact that there was this event and it is very
[00:43:37] appealing not only to children. but also to us
[00:43:41] adults, we came to also be here eh nature and
[00:43:45] all that, we were told by some friends that the festival was
[00:43:48] incredible and we came to enjoy it, upon
[00:43:51] arrival the impact is phenomenal, we have tents, we have
[00:43:55] now puppets and all that and
[00:43:58] the children are delirious, a South African
[00:44:01] artist who has lived in Madeira for 3 years left an
[00:44:05] alert through an
[00:44:07] installation.
[00:44:10] for over the weekend we've been doing installation talking about
[00:44:13] wildfires and eucalyptus trees, so obviously for the
[00:44:16] nature fest we're talking about conservation and sustainability, so
[00:44:20] here we have taken a eucalyptus tree stump, we have
[00:44:24] ripped it from the ground, turned it upside
[00:44:26] down, um to kind
[00:44:28] of create a space for
[00:44:32] people to really think about what conservation can mean with
[00:44:35] wildfires. Madeira tourism investigates
[00:44:38] 221. at the nature
[00:44:41] festival,
[00:44:44] there are traders from the Santo da Serra market who believe that the space should
[00:44:48] be improved even after the rehabilitation. On Sundays, hundreds
[00:44:52] of visitors come, looking for regional
[00:44:55] products.
[00:44:57] It is one of the most popular markets in Madeira on
[00:45:00] Sundays, it has
[00:45:03] agricultural products, from vegetables to fruit, from honey
[00:45:07] to poncha, from plants to regional crafts. The
[00:45:10] fruit, the vegetables, the drinks, the ponchas are
[00:45:14] very good, do you think it's different, it has another essence, yes,
[00:45:18] without a doubt, just the atmosphere already makes others, it already gives another flavor, better and
[00:45:22] better on my part, I don't know about the
[00:45:26] others and business is going well and it's selling,
[00:45:29] I've come a few times, once or twice, when you come here, why do
[00:45:33] you come, just to see the vegetables, the
[00:45:36] fruits, compare what's missing, what?
[00:45:40] here to sell, look, there are watering cans, there are spoons, there are
[00:45:43] spinning tops, there are cutting boards for meat, there are
[00:45:47] eh now the height of the ladders for the nativity scene, there are the
[00:45:51] little ones, there is the box to put the wine, there is the
[00:45:55] little barrel for the ginja, what does he sell, all the little
[00:45:58] things, bread, lupins,
[00:46:02] eh, tourists, eh, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
[00:46:06] bananas, everything, it's had a lot of customers, eh, yes sir,
[00:46:10] that's how we sing what we sell, what do you like most about the Santa Serra
[00:46:14] market, what do you like, look at the people and to see and
[00:46:17] to buy, what did you buy,
[00:46:19] lupins
[00:46:23] always come here to the Santa market, sometimes I appear here, I'm
[00:46:27] from Santana, I don't always come but as soon as I can
[00:46:30] my love
[00:46:33] sweet potatoes ah things are a bit
[00:46:36] expensive but well we have to...
[00:46:42] The Santo da Serra market was reopened in May this
[00:46:45] year, after a rehabilitation project. The
[00:46:49] modernization brought new conditions, but in the opinion
[00:46:52] of some traders there are still improvements to be made, it's
[00:46:56] better, it's better, but it should be
[00:46:59] closed because it gets very cold, that part is still missing,
[00:47:03] that part is missing, otherwise it's better, you have girls to
[00:47:07] close and close, lower but the side
[00:47:10] awnings so that not so much wind comes in because these winter days here are
[00:47:14] cold, now it doesn't rain, a little
[00:47:17] cold, it was a bit high, but it's all good, today it's very
[00:47:21] fresh, it's very... Good, yes sir, does it still need some improvement?
[00:47:25] Of course, but it's also gradual, it doesn't have more time, what do
[00:47:28] you think is missing? Ah, yes, it still needs to close the sides because it's very
[00:47:32] cold, the president already knows that, she says she will
[00:47:36] deal with it and that's it, not much sun comes in, before it came in a lot
[00:47:39] and rain too, now it's good. Sunday is
[00:47:43] the day of greatest influx, especially in the morning,
[00:47:46] Madeirans and tourists look for regional products and
[00:47:50] a typical market atmosphere.
[00:47:54] 71 tractors from Santana paraded at the Madeira
[00:47:57] Agricultural and Repentista Festival, a demonstration of the municipality's
[00:48:00] productive capacity.
[00:48:14] 71 tractors from all over the municipality paraded through the streets
[00:48:18] of Santana. The pleasant thing is indeed the
[00:48:21] tractors. The useful thing is to show Madeira that Santana indeed has
[00:48:24] an agricultural propensity and arable land with these
[00:48:28] machines like no other municipality in Madeira has, we have the largest
[00:48:31] useful agricultural area in the autonomous region of Madeira. Yesterday
[00:48:35] a suspicious gentleman asked me if these tractors were all from the municipality of Santana
[00:48:39] and if they worked, yes, they are all from the municipality of Santana. Santana
[00:48:43] has more than 100 tractors and almost
[00:48:46] all are in use, others are
[00:48:49] only for collection. And it's the oldest one here at an event. from
[00:48:52] 1951, it's part of my
[00:48:55] collection, it's not a working tractor, it's an exhibition
[00:48:58] tractor and here it is, and your
[00:49:01] collection, how many tractors do you have? some, the engines
[00:49:05] have always fascinated me since childhood and that's why perhaps I collect
[00:49:08] tractors not only. Élvio brought to the parade the tractor that his father
[00:49:12] uses every day, it's a normal
[00:49:15] tractor, it's a 50 horsepower tractor, here
[00:49:18] within our lands, I think it's a sufficient
[00:49:22] tractor, bigger than... what is also no longer practical for so much
[00:49:25] cultivation, well, I think it meets the needs of the type of
[00:49:29] agriculture, which is mostly sweet potatoes, but it's for
[00:49:32] turning the soil, tilling, opening furrows, in the case of planting
[00:49:36] sweet potatoes it's within that, because tractors still don't pick
[00:49:40] beans,
[00:49:43] the parade is not limited to exhibiting these machines, but to
[00:49:46] creating business opportunities, not
[00:49:49] only a demonstration of agriculture that... can be
[00:49:52] attractive to younger people, this does not mean that younger people will all
[00:49:56] turn to agriculture tomorrow, but we are sowing
[00:50:00] in many of their hearts and minds the
[00:50:03] idea of technological agriculture, of profitable agriculture. The
[00:50:07] agricultural and improv festival runs until Sunday.
[00:59:39] from the Azores and Madeira here on RTP, until
[00:59:42] then.