Algarve due to see restrictions on water consumption lifted
Recent rains have made all the difference Maria da Graça Carvalho, Portugal’s minister for the environment and energy announced today that the Committee to Monitor the Effects of the Drought
PM announces motion of confidence
President to address nation at 6.30pm Prime minister Luís Montenegro has seemingly called time on all the political posturing of recent days to announce he will be voting for a
Man shot dead during Carnival ‘baile’ in Odiáxere
Man and killer were known to each other A man in his 50s was shot dead at close range outside a carnival ‘baile’ (traditional party with dancing) in Odiáxere, Lagos,
TAP privatisation: unions warn it ‘won’t work’ unless we’re involved
SNPVAC tells government: “Don’t make same mistakes of the past” SNPVAC, the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel, has warned the government today that the privatisation process of TAP
Nurses in Lisbon and West areas call strike for March 20
Nurses from health centres in the Lisbon and West areas will be on strike on March 20, for the payment of back pay outstanding – some of it apparently owed
PJ “don’t know who skull belongs to found close to river”
Skull, a(nother) human bone plus clothing discovered close to EN109 in Aveiro In yet another story about random body parts discovered in unusual places, Correio da Manhã today has run
Government faces new motion of censure
The PSD/CDS minority executive has survived one motion of censure and faces another today (presented by PCP communists) With the wider world on tenterhooks – as the United States under
Portugal’s battered government faces second “motion of censure” in less than two weeks
Today’s motion has been tabled by PCP communists In what to outsiders may look like a kind of groundhog day within a turgid soap opera, parliament will be debating and
PS call for parliamentary inquiry into PM’s family business
Socialists accuse PM of “actively contributing to degradation of institutions” The government’s attempts to wriggle out of political crisis are being thwarted at every turn today: PS Socialists are calling
Portugal’s road deaths ‘sixth worst in EU’
In 2023, Portugal was the sixth worst country among the EU’s 27 member states in the number of road deaths per million inhabitants, surpassed only by Greece, Croatia, Latvia, Romania