THE LOOKOUT | The water for washing baby carrot tails, the Nersant demolition duo and the inhalers for respiratory diseases from Tabaqueira

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The industrial unit that would treat and package baby carrots in Almeirim, a kind of carrot maternity hospital, or industrial carrot nursery, as you like, was announced seven years ago, but was never built. And 14 or 15 years ago, a mega prison was also supposed to be created in that municipality, but it ended up not being created.
In the case of carrots, it was even said that one of the investors was Cristiano Ronaldo, but things didn’t turn out that way. In the case of the mega prison, the idea was born ahead of time. A premature birth, so to speak.
In 2009, a party had not yet appeared promising to send all politicians in Portugal… and surrounding areas to prison. The winners were the cork oaks from a Herdade dos Gagos, which ended up not being uprooted. It was the victory of the chaparros!!
Adding to these cases the construction of the section of the IC3 between Almeirim and the A23, in Atalaia, which was also lost in the fog of time, despite being a project promised and re-promised by almost all ministers, state secretaries and deputies of the last five or six governments, we already have enough material for a police series.
Another subject that could also lead to a series is that of the Nersant business association. After the bulldozer president, let’s call him that, Domingos Chambel, came in to continue his work, a devastating Pedroso Leal, his predecessor going to the general assembly.
There are those who say that with this devastating team, no stone will be left unturned. The idea of ​​total cleaning, which has been talked about so much in politics, is now being extended to business associations in the region.
And you can better understand why journalists and administrators from O MIRANTE are prevented from participating in Nersant initiatives. As it is collapsing, they want to protect them, that’s all they can do. Truly heartbreaking concern…chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.
Spending on medicines in National Health Service hospitals increased by almost one billion euros in 11 years. This is an increase of 92%, which proves that there are more and more citizens in need of treatment. We are lucky that there are still people like Domingos Chambel and Pedroso Leal, who are in great shape.
Speaking of health issues, Phillip Morris, which owns our National Tobacco Company, stopped selling just tobacco and started selling inhalers for respiratory diseases. Let’s say, in a simplistic way, that it sells the disease and the cure at the same time.
I end with another piece of bombshell news. The integrated management and performance evaluation system in public administration was changed at the last minute by the Costa government. From now on there will be more good and very good workers and also more excellent ones.
I explain. Before, even if all the workers in a service were good and very good, managers had to declare that 75% were no big deal, but now they only need to do the bad thing to 70%. And they can rate 10% as excellent, whereas before they could only give that rating to 5%. From what I understand, the only thing that remains is the possibility of classifying all workers (100%)… with the minimum score.
A maximum level hug
Manuel Serra d’Aire