New threat looms over Montijo following April Fool’s ‘hoax’
Following the embarrassing April Fool’s hoax which announced the shelving of controversial plans to site a busy passenger terminal in Montijo – alongside one of southern Europe’s most important birding
Ford lends fleet of vehicles to Red Cross
Ford motor company – already helping efforts to combat the virus in Spain – has now announced it will be ceding a fleet of vehicles to the Portuguese Red Cross.
Nurse and female security guard caught on CCTV using dismembered man’s bank cards
Updates on the horrific murder of 21-year-old Algarve IT technician Diogo Gonçalves claim his murderers – a nurse and female security guard – tortured him for at least two days
Algarve’s ‘dismembered body horror’ allegedly the work of two young women
PJ police believe two young women murdered 21-year-old IT technician Diogo Gonçalves for money – cutting off his head, legs and arms and dumping them in different locations. Expresso reports
Airports to be locked down for Easter
All Portuguese airports are to be locked down for Easter. The government’s message – up till now fairly gentle – that this year we have to forget the holiday suddenly
Azores São Miguel island in six separate lockdowns
The government of the Azores is about to ring-fence the six boroughs of São Miguel island, in the Azores, to restrict residents’ movements even further. From midnight tonight till the
AirBnB announces ‘help for owners hit by holiday rental cancellations’
Online holiday rentals platform AirBnB has stepped into the cancellations chaos hitting the tourism sector with a 250 million dollar ‘pay back-fund’ to help harassed owners. CEO Brian Chesky explains:
Death of Ukrainian at Lisbon airport opens ‘Pandora’s Box’ that could see Portugal in the dock
The horrific death of father-of-two Ihor Homenyuk – allegedly at the hands of three heavy-fisted airport borders agency inspectors (click here) – has opened a veritable Pandora’s Box that could
New State of Emergency “allows for rationing and suspension of property and capital income”
As we write this text, MPs in parliament are debating the renewal of Portugal’s State of Emergency. But the outcome is already a given. And President’s Marcelo’s new decree brings
Brussels to choose telecoms operator in Portugal to spy on people in lockdown
The European Commission has announced that it is choosing a telecoms operator in each Member State to ‘gather citizens data anonymously through the tracking of mobile phones during the pandemic’.