Marcelo begins two-day official visit to Guinea Bissau
President Marcelo is on a two day official visit to Guinea Bissau today, 31 years after the former Portuguese colony was visited by his predecessor Mário Soares. The visit concludes
Minister Cabrita: “everything he gets into turns into disaster”
Talking on SIC television last night, incisive political pundit Luís Marques Mendes has given a timeline for the removal from the government of Eduardo Cabrita – the minister whose name
Chinese multinational plays hard-ball over catastrophic water contract in Paredes
20 years after Paredes municipality signed a concession with Chinese multinational Beijing Enterprizes Water Group (Be Water) there are still parishes in the borough that have no mains drainage. The
Active cases rise for 5th day running: hospital numbers up by 22
Today’s Covid bulletin has some wrinkles in the country’s otherwise fairly stellar situation. The number of active cases (now running at 22,257) has increased steadily for the last five days.
Summer 2021 will be a sizzler!
This summer is expected to be “much hotter than normal” with specialists predicting various moments when temperatures exceed 40ºC through June, July and August. Talking to TSF radio, climate specialist
Rally for Freedom in Lisbon unites hundreds… possibly thousands
Depending on which news sources one reads, the Rally for Freedom in Lisbon yesterday – promoted by World Wide Demonstration – united anything between 500-700 or 3,000 to 4,000 people.
Portugal hits new record of 125,000 vaccinations in one day
Portugal hit a new ‘vaccination record’ on Saturday, innoculating 125,000 people in one day – 103,000 of them teachers. Today’s tally is not expected to be so high, but still
3…2…1… Algarve braces for tomorrow’s tourist ‘invasion’
More than 7,000 holidaymakers are due to fly into the Algarve from midnight tonight. The ‘invasion’ will be made up principally of Britons (5,500) arriving on 17 flights into Faro
Portugal with “no plans to lift use of masks for citizens already vaccinated”
With confusing reports today suggesting Portugal ‘could lift the requirement on citizens to wear masks once 70% of the country has reached herd immunity’, under secretary of state for health
“Right to be forgotten” – Parliament moves to protect cancer patients from ‘bad credit ratings’
Parliament has approved ‘in its generality’ the ‘right to be forgotten’ – an agreement that will stop people who have beaten illnesses like cancer being discriminated against if/ when they