Cabify smartphone taxi service quits Portugal
Cabify – one of the first smartphone taxi services to arrive in Portugal – is shutting up shop after “failing to meet its objectives”. The Spanish transportation network company started
Nurses threaten new forms of industrial action
The group of nurses that advanced last year with crippling ‘surgical strikes’ – focused on boycotting programmed surgeries – are preparing a return to industrial action. Vowing it will be
Porto airport borders control inspectors “exhausted”, says union
SEF border control guards at Porto airport are exhausted due to overly demanding working conditions and the fact that flights into the city are increasing all the time. Acácio Pereira,
Portuguese work “more than the European average”
Portuguese people work roughly two years more than the ‘European average’. In real terms, this means workers here work roughly 38 years, as opposed to workers in countries like Italy
Starving horses finally removed from ‘horror farm’ in Alentejo
The 53 horses left on a horror farm where over 15 animals starved to death have finally been removed to a place of safety. Last week, the story of how
No new boreholes”: government announces measures to tackle drought in southern Portugal
Stopping the drilling of new boreholes and promoting the use of treated wastewater in agriculture and tourism are the main measures suggested by the Portuguese government to tackle the country’s
Major drug hauls celebrated by PJ and GNR
PJ and GNR police have celebrated two major drug coups: in Lisbon, cocaine weighing a ton and a half was discovered hidden in boxes of bananas stored in a warehouse
Dutch sailor, 72, missing presumed drowned in Guadiana river
Authorities are searching the Guadiana river near Alcoutim for a 72-year-old Dutch sailor who has been missing since Thursday morning. The septuagenarian is described as living on a yacht moored
President of ANA airports administrative council accused of ‘conflict of interest’
Citizens movement ‘Aeroporto BA6-Montijo Não’ – desperate to stop the siting of a busy passenger terminal in its south of Lisbon community – has accused the president of ANA’s administrative
5G roll out in Portugal “is delayed”, admits Secretary of State – but not by much
The controversial 5G roll-out in Portugal is delayed, Secretary of State for communications, infrastructures and housing Alberto de Souto Miranda has admitted – stressing that this country “does not belong










