Eunice Silva | |
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Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Housing | |
Assumed office 22 June 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Ulisses Correia e Silva |
Personal details | |
Born | April 1956 (age 68) Santiago,Cape Verde |
Children | 2 |
Occupation | Civil engineer,writer,politician |
Eunice Silva (born April 1956) is a Cape Verdean civil engineer,writer and politician from Santiago.
Eunice Andrade da Silva Spencer Lopes was born on Santiago,Cape Verde in April 1956 and was the second-eldest of nine siblings. She attended the Technical and Industrial Institute in Rostov,Russia and graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1980. Returning to Cape Verde in 1981 Silva joined the state-owned construction company and also became a member of the Organization of Cape Verdean Women (OCVW),a women's rights campaign group. She studied economics at the University of Havana,Cuba in 1995 and gained a Master of Business Administration degree from the Central Connecticut State University in 2001. [1]
Upon returning to Cape Verde Silva joined the Ministry for Infrastructure,Planning and Housing,having resigned her membership of OCVW. She was director of the ministry's studies and planning office and sat on its public and private works permits commission. Silva later entered the private sector and became secretary-general of the country's contractors association. [1]
Silva was elected to the National Assembly in 2011. [1] She has since served as vice-president of the Economic,Environment and Spatial Planning Specialized Commission. and president of the Cape Verde Parliamentary Network for the Environment,Combating Desertification and Poverty. [1] Silva arranged a nationwide vote in 2013 to determine Cape Verde's seven greatest wonders and subsequently produced the Cape Verde Wonders catalogue. [1] [2] She was in charge of the response to the 2014–15 eruption of Fogo,including provision of housing,money and employment to those affected. [1] Silva also presided over the parliamentary inquiry into the loss of the Vicente ferry on 8 January 2015 which caused the deaths of 15 people. [1] [3]
On 22 June 2016 Silva was appointed Minister for Infrastructure,Planning and Housing in the Movement for Democracy cabinet of Ulisses Correia e Silva. [4]
Silva is also vice-president of the Alliance of Parliamentarians and Local Elected Representatives for the Protection of the Environment in Countries on the West African Coast (APPEL),a grouping of elected officials of the members of the Subregional Fisheries Commission (Cape Verde,The Gambia,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Mauritania,Senegal,Sierra Leone). [1] [5] [6]
Silva has written for Cape Verde newspapers on matters of urban planning and society. She is married,has two children and three grandchildren. [1]
The recorded history of Cape Verde begins with the Portuguese discovery of the island in 1458. Possible early references to Cape Verde date back at least 2,000 years.
Fogo is an island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde in the central Atlantic Ocean. Its population is 35,837 (2015),with an area of 476 km2. It reaches the highest altitude of all the islands in Cape Verde,rising to 2,829 metres above sea level at the summit of its active volcano,Pico do Fogo.
Baltasar Lopes da Silva was a writer,poet and linguist from Cape Verde,who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa,he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho,considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel and O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde which describes different dialects of creoles of Cape Verde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara.
Claridade was a literary review inaugurated in 1936 in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente,Cape Verde. It was part of a movement of cultural,social,and political emancipations of the Cape Verdean society. The founding contributors were Manuel Lopes,Baltasar Lopes da Silva,who used the poetic pseudonym of Osvaldo Alcântara,and Jorge Barbosa,born in the Islands of São Nicolau,Santiago and São Vicente,respectively. The magazine followed the steps of the Portuguese neorealist writers,and contributed to the building of "Cape Verdeanity",an autonomous cultural identity for the archipelago.
O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde is a Capeverdean book published in 1957 by Baltasar Lopes da Silva. As the title was the spelling used after the 1945 Portuguese Orthography Agreement,its modern spelling is titled O Dialeto Crioulo de Cabo Verde.
Chiquinho is a Capeverdean novel written by Baltasar Lopes da Silva in 1936 and published in 1947. The story is named after the nickname of the island of São Nicolau in which the characters originated. The probability of the literary work is the most common in Cape Verde,it marked the beginning of the typical literature in Cape Verde along with local themes in Creole culture. Along with Claridade,Baltazar Lopes participated with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa with founded members of the review and the name was the movement in the main activists of the same.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde,officially the Republic of Cabo Verde,is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean,consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert,the westernmost point of continental Africa. The Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion,along with the Azores,the Canary Islands,Madeira and the Savage Isles.
Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975.
The 2003 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 24th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 17 May and finished on 2 August. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. No club participated in the 2004 CAF Champions League or the 2004 CAF Winner's Cup.
The 2012 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 33rd of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 5 May and finished on 7 July,slightly earlier than last year. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. Sporting Praia won the ninth title,it would be the club's most recent title win. This time,Sporting Praia did not participate in the 2013 CAF Champions League. No club also participated in the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup. In 2012,Sporting Praia won the first super cup title and would become the first club to win both the championship and the super cup title in the same season.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Cape Verde.
The cuisine of Cape Verde is a West African cuisine largely influenced by Portuguese,Southern and Western European and West African cuisine. Cape Verde was a colony of Portugal from its colonization until 1975.
1910s –1920s –1930s –1940s –1950s –1960s –1970s –1980s –1990s –2000s
The 2014–2015 eruption of Fogo began on 23 November 2014,continuing until 8 February 2015. It was the first eruption of Pico do Fogo in 19 years,and the longest since its 1857 eruption. It had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 3,making it the largest eruption of the volcano since records began.
Pedro Monteiro Cardoso was a Cape Verdean writer,poet and folklorist.
Maria Isabel Andrade is a Cape Verdean food scientist. Andrade has worked in Mozambique as a sweet potato researcher since 1996 and was a co-winner of the 2016 World Food Prize.