Beach ban imposed as PM discusses closing frontiers with Spain
From this morning, anyone surfing on any beach in the country will be breaking the law. Anyone paragliding off a cliff, onto a beach, will be breaking the law. A
Covid-19 Portugal: “We’re entering phase of exponential growth”
With Portugal’s ‘State of Alert’ over Covid-19 in its second day, health minister Marta Temido has warned that the country is entering “a phase of exponential growth” in the numbers
Majority of Algarve’s Moroccan ‘boat-boys’ have already gone AWOL
The majority of young Moroccan men who pitched up in rickety fishing boats on the coast of the Algarve recently (click here and here), requesting asylum, have already gone AWOL.
Interior minister lays ‘State of Alert’ on the line
Interior minister lays ‘State of Alert’ on the line Interior minister Eduardo Cabrita has finally laid out what exactly a State of Alert means to our everyday lives. Essentially, it
Woman found “unimputable and dangerous” walks free
A chronic paranoid schizophrenic who lived alongside her father’s corpse for at least six months – ‘disguising the smell of putrefaction by sprinkling it with powdered chocolate and coffee grounds’-
Hells Angels ‘trial’ now suspended until further notice
89 allegedly violent Hells Angels – all rounded up in 2018, many of whom have had protracted jail stays – heard this week that the judicial process against them has
Schools out! 1.5 million pupils hear ‘this is no holiday’
24-hours after the country was told it would hear a decision about the situation of schools with regard to the rapid propagation of Covid-19, the 8pm news finally announced they
One of first Covid-19 cases in Portugal pronounced ‘cured’
The good news of this otherwise fairly ‘bad news’ day is that one of the first people to test positive for Covid-19 in Portugal has been pronounced ‘cured’. He has
Exceptional measures coming “that may not be nice”
Exceptional measures that “may not be nice” are on the way as Portugal struggles to cope with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. This was the message today from PSD
We will do whatever is necessary, pledges prime minister
With countries all over the world failing to contain the spread of new coronavirus Covid-19, Portugal was moving into the mitigation phase as we went to press on Wednesday. Health