New fine for former BES boss Ricardo Salgado
Securities regulator CMVM has fined disgraced BES banker Ricardo Salgado €2 million. Says Expresso today: “at issue is the falsification of accounts and furnishing of erroneous information to investors in
President Marcelo “exchanges Cascais for Lisbon”
President Marcelo is reported to have temporarily decamped from his private home in Cascais for the official residence of Belém Palace. The reason, explains Expresso, is that with “periods of
Luís Filipe Vieira suspends presidency of Benfica
Still in preventive custody on suspicion of money-laundering, abuse of trust, fiscal fraud, aggravated fraud, document falsification and potentially even more, Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira has today suspended his
Woman whose body was found in burnt out camper “may have already been dead”
The woman whose body was found in a burnt-out camper in a remote area near São Bartolomeu de Messines earlier this week “may have been dead before she was placed
“It’s almost impossible to book a test in time for restaurants this weekend…”
This is the conclusion of research done by Expresso (Portugal’s ‘most read’ weekly newspaper) following the government’s announcement yesterday about restaurants in high-risk boroughs needing ‘proof of Covid vaccinations or
Restaurants in 60 boroughs off-limits at weekends without Covid Digital Certificates or negative tests
Portugal’s Council of Ministers has just announced that restaurants in 60 ‘high-risk’ boroughs up and down the country – nine of them in the Algarve – will be allowed to
Every region on mainland Portugal “on elevated virus risk”
Every region on mainland Portugal is now on “elevated risk” for transmission of SARS-CoV-2, according to maps compiled by ECDC (the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control). After months
PJ police foil gang making James Bond-type weapons
PJ police have rounded up 12 men in the north of Portugal for making weapons reminiscent of those featured in early James Bond movies: walking sticks and pens ‘transformed’ to
Tragic firefighter’s children receive State pension
The two young children of firefighter Catarina Pedro, killed on Saturday as she went to the aid of a driver who had suffered an accident (click here), are to receive
Passionate Portuguese traveller suffers fatal fall into Mexican Blue Lagoon
Passionate Portuguese traveller Érica Liane Tavares – a 23-year-old with over 14,000 followers on Instagram – suffered a fatal fall while walking at Mexico’s Blue Lagoon in Chiapa. The young