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Pedro Candeias explores the fragility of the elderly support ecosystem, highlighting how society often overlooks the challenges of aging until personally affected.
The article discusses the growing concerns about sustainability in the workplace, emphasizing the need to balance organizational development, economic growth, environmental protection, and community well-being. It highlights the challenges posed by an aging workforce in Portugal, where recruitment difficulties and talent retention issues are becoming more pronounced. The article also addresses gender disparities in the workforce, particularly the prevalence of part-time work among women and the implications for productivity and career opportunities. It calls for a demographic analysis within organizations to adapt health support and public policies that promote sustainable practices, benefiting individuals, organizations, and society as a whole.
Alcohol cannot be sold as a solution for loneliness. Gambling can be sold as a contribution to society. It is a regulatory creativity that is very much our own. Column by Paulo Lamelas
The APA and the Minister of the Environment present themselves as defenders of beachgoers, sunshades, and envy against concessionaires - the same ones who provide beach facilities, surveillance, and lifeguards.
Mira beach has once again received the Blue Flag. It is the only seaside resort to have held the Blue Flag since the programme's inception 40 years ago. The flag-raising ceremony was attended by the Minister of the Environment, Graça Carvalho, who once again addressed this summer's controversy: placing sunshades in front of concession areas.
The APA has fired the starting gun on a conflict that promises to turn the sand into a boxing ring. Also, Moedas' stubbornness regarding the strike, the PRR being handled haphazardly, and the utopia of having a family doctor.
Citizens are not just being encouraged to recycle. They are pre-financing the system, performing part of the operational work, and inevitably absorbing a portion of the losses.
In a time of detachment between citizens and institutions and the growth of populism, perhaps local democracy is the best place to start over. Opinion by José Miguel Ferreira
Lisbon City Council councillor Maria Luísa Aldim announced the creation of an electronic platform that provides access to information about homeless people to “all entities working in the field”
Ponta Delgada City Council has ceded land in the parish of Arrifes to the Azorean executive for the creation of transitional accommodation for homeless people.
The goal is to identify patterns and territorial inequalities and to bring information closer to communities.
The award that distinguishes good practices in local government returns for its 7th edition with the same purpose as always: to recognise, value, and encourage innovative projects that contribute to improving the quality of life for citizens. Promoted by the Grupo Mosqueteiros, the award continues to establish itself as a benchmark in valuing the work developed.
Lisbon City Council will provide 261,187 euros in financial support to the O Companheiro association for a programme integrating inmates in open prison regimes and former inmates into urban cleaning and green space maintenance tasks. This measure is part of a 4.3 million euro social support package to be approved by Carlos Moedas' executive, which also includes funding for school transport, support for homeless shelters, addiction recovery centres, refugee integration, and administrative support for child protection commissions.
PS mayors are currently one of the main reasons for the party's survival. They are on the front line with communities, dealing directly with the implementation of public policies and the concrete daily problems of the people. For this very reason, they are the ones best able to combine conviction with pragmatism.
What is being established in the minds of the confused – starting with defenceless children – is that summer time is merely the counterpoint to winter time. A column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
The future of the country is built with closer public policies, more agile decisions, and greater local responsibility. It is built with more local power and less centralism.
The mayor of Porto demands compensation for the 'neglect' of the region by the central government, which he considers an 'enemy' of equal opportunities and the development of social justice.
A village of ten residents, populations waiting for support, a fire investigation commission yet to start, a country beyond Lisbon. This was the Portugal that Seguro chose to debut his mandate in Belém.
