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Home News Jazz Festival in Portugal with new dates Jazz Festival in Portugal with new dates The Pombal Jazz festival, which was postponed due to the effects of Storm Kristin in the municipality of Pombal, in the district of Leiria, will now take place from the 20th to the 22nd, the organisers ann
The National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses or ANMP) has rejected claims by Minister of Territorial Cohesion Manuel Castro Almeida, who blamed local councils for delays in housing reconstruction support. Mayors from heavily affected areas like Leiria and Alcácer do Sal argue the government has not yet provided the necessary funds for distribution. Residents awaiting storm repair subsidies should note that the dispute centers on whether local or central authorities are responsible for the slow validation of applications.
Manuel Castro Almeida is Portugal's Minister of Economy and Social Cohesion, a role cited in the article. On 17 February in Sobral de Monte Agraço he said over 4,000 companies had requested storm support totaling nearly €1 billion, figures tied to recent severe weather damage.
The National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses or ANMP) is the umbrella group that represents Portugal’s 308 municipalities in talks with the central government. It negotiates funding, shared services and decentralisation plans—for example, it has been involved in the recent agreement to create a commission and a fund to transfer about 4,000 kilometres of roads to municipal control—so local services and road maintenance may shift to town councils that residents deal with directly.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries announced this Wednesday, in the Leiria district, a 40 million euro programme for forest owners affected by the low-pressure system Kristin to remove fallen trees and clear their land. During a visit to the parish of Guia, in the municipality of Pombal, one of the areas most affected by the storm on the 28th...
Of the 22,000 applications for support to rebuild homes after the storm, more than 50% are concentrated in Leiria, Pombal, and Marinha Grande.
There are still 74,000 customers (households and businesses) without power in the Central region. Over 49,000 customers are from the Leiria area, 18,000 from Santarém, 5,000 from Castelo Branco, and 2,000 from Coimbra.
The Portuguese Order of Psychologists (OPP) activated the Crisis and Catastrophe Intervention Fund on Thursday to enhance psychological support for populations affected by the storm in Pombal, Batalha, Alcácer, and Grândola, announced the president of the Order today.
The storm continues to cause visible damage and losses for residents. Several parishes in Leiria remain without electricity.
Prime minister Luís Montenegro ‘returned to the field’ today to visit a company in Pombal – and was tackled over the continuing lack of electricity in parts of the municipality. The post PM tackled over continuing electricity failures appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The prime minister said in Pombal that the Government is concentrating on resolving the problems caused by Storm Kristin, acknowledging difficulties in responding to all situations simultaneously.
The Prime Minister has returned to areas affected by the bad weather, in this case Pombal, this time accompanied by the head of the reconstruction mission for the Centro region, the former mayor of Fundão, Paulo Fernandes. To journalists, Luís Montenegro said it is a mission “for the coming years”: “We need someone on the ground. We don't have a final date for Paulo Fernandes's assignment, but it will probably be a few years before we can finish this work.”
