Cost of basic “food basket” reaches three-year high
Consumer watchdog DECO says cost increased by €6 just in last week Portugal’s rate of inflation may appear to be ‘in good order’ (hovering around 2%), but it is still
Cancer patients “dying of heat” in Porto’s IPO
Temperatures on surgical and pediatrics wards “can reach 40ºC” Cancer patients interned in the main building of Porto’s IPO (Institute of oncology) are subjected to temperatures of 40ºC during summer
New law on immigration may come back to bite Portugal where it hurts
Indian entrepreneur gives SIC his reading of legal changes An Indian businessman who goes by the name of Franky has given SIC Notícias his reading of the government’s ‘get tough
State of Nation debate “handed out benefits” ahead of municipal elections
AD focused on municipalities voting their way With the State of the Nation debate over – and all the mutual insults now settled like dust where they fell – leader
Disgraced art empresario Joe Berardo charged with aggravated fraud
Berardo and three others accused of ‘simulating civil action’ to prevent banks recover €1 billion in loans Years after his disastrous questioning by a parliamentary committee, the now fairly disgraced
Hundreds of public sector workers demand 15% pay rises
Union reps deliver “series of demands” to prime minister’s official residence With the media focused on this afternoon’s State of the Nation debate in parliament, hundreds of public sector workers
State of Nation debate opens with reductions in business tax
… and increase in pensions supplement With the country’s left-wing parties bristling in ‘outrage’ over the government’s sense of calm in ‘getting things done’, the State of the Nation debate
18-year-old drowns on excursion organised by ‘youth protection organisation’
Teen “not wearing life jacket” in spite of being ‘unable to swim’ The body of an 18-year-old was recovered from the Lagoa do Falcão waterpark, in Torres Vedras, yesterday afternoon
Loures mayor exacerbates schism within PS Socialist party
Declares demolition of shanty homes “will continue” Ricardo Leão, the mayor of Loures, a northern suburb of Portugal’s capital city, Lisbon, has exacerbated the schism within the PS Socialist party,
Firefighters start winning battle against Sabrosa blaze
Fire began Wednesday early afternoon The fire that hit the northern municipality of Sabrosa (Vila Real district) yesterday, forcing the evacuation of various homes, entered the resolution phase shortly before