Mindelo, Apr 16 (Inforpress) – The city of Mindelo will host the first edition of the Play festival in Cabo Verde from April 24 to 26, which aims to create interest among young people in the performing arts and stimulate national production.

These are the reasons for holding, in São Vicente, for the first time, the International Children's and Youth Film Festival, which has been taking place for 11 years in Lisbon, Portugal, as the event's director, Catarina Ramalho, explained to Inforpress.

An event organized in Mindelo, in collaboration with the Mindelo Cultural Center (CCM) and Éden Produções.

“We felt that an event was needed for so many children and young people on the island,” explained Catarina Ramalho, who highlights the idea of, in this way, planting the seeds for other activities of this type. 

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Praia, Apr 17 (Inforpress) - The mayor of Praia, Francisco Carvalho, promised on Wednesday to hold a ceremony this year to award regional champions of different sports in the municipality.

The mayor of Praia made this promise at the end of the award ceremony for the champions of the 2024-2025 Santiago Sul football season, which took place at Alexandre Albuquerque square, in Platô, in the city of Praia.

“We will not set a specific date, but we will organize an identical event for the indoor sports this year. We will continue to offer more prizes because what the city government needs to do is create more incentives and better conditions for the athletes in this municipality,” he promised.

Francisco Carvalho also said that the municipality would pay special attention to the pitches and multi-purpose sports centres in order to expand indoor sports, explaining that it was necessary to create better conditions for athletes to practise sport, which would contribute to their progress and bring them more victories.

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Nova Sintra, Apr 17 (Inforpress) - Producers and breeders on Brava Island consider that the situation of agriculture and livestock farming in the municipality is “worrying”, taking into account the scarcity of animals and the “poor distribution of water” by the company Águabrava.

The considerations come from a group of farmers and breeders from the municipality, after a meeting with the delegate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment in the municipality, held on Wednesday, 16, in Nova Sintra.

José Andrade, one of the event organizers, told Inforpres that the municipality was a place that had many animals and that the other islands were looking for animals to buy, but that currently the lack of them “is notable”. 

“In the past, meat was sold every day, but today sales occur occasionally, because the few animals that Brava Island still has are being sold mutually to the other islands,” declared José Andrade.

According to the same source, there has always been a problem with water on the island, but he considered that if it were well distributed by Águabrava, farmers or breeders would be able to receive the minimum for their activities.

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Mindelo, Apr 11 (Inforpress) - Six Portuguese specialists in palliative care are coming to Cabo Verde to train more than 50 doctors in the field of pain and palliative care between Saturday 12th and Tuesday 15th in Santo Antão and São Vicente.

According to São Vicente's health delegate, Elísio Silva, the training will take place on Tuesday in the auditorium of the health centre.

According to the same source, this initiative is part of the National Palliative Care Programme, which has developed training activities for professionals working in this area, with the aim of ‘providing tools’ for ‘quality care’ for users.

On the Portuguese side, according to the Lusa news agency, the initiative is made possible through the support of the medical civic intervention group Iniciativa Médica 3M (IM3M) and the delegation is led by Professor Marília Dourado, from the Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra, and by Hugo Ribeiro, a palliative care doctor at the Local Health Unit of Gaia and Espinho and professor at the Faculties of Medicine of Coimbra and Porto, and also includes a seventh member, a lawyer specialising in the area of health.

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