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Museums and monuments ready to welcome visitors Museums, palaces, art galleries, and monuments have all now reopened, following the second phase of easing of lockdown. A great relief for cultural workers, as well as tourists and Lisboetas. According to a report from UNESCO, in 2020 museums around the world were closed for an average of 155 days, and since the beginning of 2021, many of them have been forced to close their doors again, causing a 70 percent drop in visitors, and between 40 percent to 60 percent drop in revenues, compared to 2019. After months of lockdown, re-opening museums and...

I was able to fly with our prime minister, the head of the embassy and the u.s. embassy in the bahamas with their minister of public health, their minister of public works, their director of emergency management in bahamas. and we were able to fly up to the two areas hit the most. we were able to cover almost all of the abicos, could not get into the grand bahama island because we got hit with the hurricane. some areas are not populated, some areas are sparsely populated. and we saw extreme destruction, extreme devastation, buildings destroyed, a lot of flooding still persists. in some cases a...

Like this in our lifetime. just total destruction as far as water surge, coming onto the island. we have got 70% of the island has been flooded. the abicos is totally destroyed. persons are looking for loved ones. we are using social media to try to locate them. there are reports of persons beingr