End of an era in Castelo Branco: Dielmar declares insolvency
Dielmar – the long-standing Portuguese clothing manufacturer whose ‘glory days’ include kitting out the Portuguese national football team – has finally declared insolvency after several ‘difficult years’. The immediate problems
Census data highlights Portugal’s “problem of all problems”, warns TV pundit
The first results of Portugal’s recent census show that the country has lost 214,286 citizens since 2011.This may not sound like a great deal, but for a country that has
Portugal’s indebted families receive “additional protection”
Families with mortgages on hold (due to the pandemic) and still experiencing financial difficulties are to be given a further 90-days ‘grace’ (once the moratoria on bank loans expires) before
Confusion as some parents and schools say: “We want children vaccinated”
There is some confusion this week following the announcement by DGS health director Graça Freitas that healthy children from the ages of 12 upwards do not, for the time being,
Casinos offer free Covid testing
The casinos of the Estoril Sol group which were allowed to reopen from yesterday (August 1) under the government’s new pandemic-management rules are offering all clients free Covid testing at
CP (Comboios de Portugal) registers €95.4 million in losses during pandemic’s first year
CP, Portugal’s rail network, registered €95.4 million in losses last year, compared to the €51.6 million in 2019. With government focus now on promoting rail travel in the interests of
Marcelo and Costa in Brazil forging ‘closer links with sister-country’ … while Bolsonaro goes to bikers’ meeting
Portugal’s president Marcelo and prime minister António Costa are both in Brazil this weekend, on a lightning visit ostensibly to reopen the Museum of the Portuguese Language – which had
Discotheques can open from today “but it is prohibited to dance”
With the country ‘opening up’ dependent on wider use of Covid Digital Certificates/ negative tests giving access to public events and services, discotheques have finally been allowed to reopen from
Portugal’s RT is below 1: “best Saturday for a month” in terms of numbers of new infections
Portugal’s RT (transmission) number is at last below 1 (coming in at 0.98 as of yesterday). This has seen today’s Covid bulletin register the ‘lowest number of new infections on
Healthy children in Portugal “not required to take up Covid vaccines” … for time being
DGS health chiefs have finally ‘spoken’ on the hotly-contested subject of whether or not to authorise vaccinations against Covid-19 in healthy children from the ages of 12 upwards. Madeira has