44 to answer fraud charges over Pedrógão Grande fire rebuilding programme
44 people have been cited in the investigation – kick-started by journalists – into alleged fraud in the rebuilding of fire-damaged homes in Pedrógão Grande. Of the 44, 37 are
Chinese claim they are victims of €20 million Golden Visa fraud
A number of Chinese citizens claim they have been swindled by their own countrymen in an elaborate Golden Visa fraud which appears to have netted around €20 million. Said reports
Portugal to take five migrants from Sea-Watch 3
Portugal has agreed to take five of the 40 migrants from Sea-Watch 3, the rescue ship that finally made it to dry land on Friday after a tense 17-day stand-off
Illegal immigrants: numbers arriving in Portugal skyrocket
The number of immigrants “living in Portugal illegally” has more than doubled between 2017 and 2018. Just as borders agency SEF reports that it has never had so many foreigners
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