Google announces private subsea cable connecting Portugal and South Africa
Google has announced that Equiano, a new private subsea cable, is going to link Portugal and South Africa. Built by Alcatel Submarine Networks, the first phase of the project (reaching
Prédio Coutinho demolition starts with nine besieged homeowners still inside
Yesterday supplies of water, gas and electricity were cut off to residents fighting for their homes, and bars placed across all access points. Today, as nine exhausted elderly homeowners woke
Down 14,400 inhabitants – but immigrants are staunching Portugal’s plummeting demographics
Portugal lost 14,400 inhabitants last year, but it could have been so much worse. All reports stress the importance of immigrants which were up last year from 36,639 in 2017
Algarvian seagulls “fly 5,500 kms”
Two seagulls ‘rescued’ and treated by Algarve animal recovery centre RIAS before being released back into the wild have been tagged over 5,000 kms away, in Scotland and Iceland (the
Light plane lands on motorway, hitting three vehicles
One person was injured this afternoon after a light plane made an emergency landing on the A12 motorway near Pinhal Novo (Setúbal district), hitting three vehicles. None of the vehicle
Police called to quell new citizens protest against water-guzzling monoculture
GNR police were called to the usually sleepy village of Alte (in the borough of Loulé) last week when citizens mounted a protest to highlight how water is literally being
British Empire Medal for founder of Algarve’s ‘firefighter support brigade’
With the critical season for wildfires well and truly upon us – and fire stations up and down the country on heightened alert – news broke over the weekend that
Maternity unit in Portimão closes due to lack of doctors
The maternity unit in Portimão has been forced to close till next Tuesday (June 11) due to lack of doctors (specialists in pediatrics). All ‘at risk’ pregnant women have been
Parliament votes for government to declare “state of climate emergency”
Against the “systematic opposition” of ruling PS Socialists, parliament today has approved the bulk of draft resolutions presented by ‘left wingers’ Bloco de Esquerda and animal rights party PAN calling
Mayor of Pedrógão Grande cited in probe into alleged ‘fires rebuilding fiddle’
It has taken months of ‘media exposés’ and insinuations but the mayor of Pedrógão Grande – the borough devastated by wildfires that killed 66 people and injured 253 two years