Former banker suffering from Alzheimer’s ‘must go on trial’
With the prime suspect in the criminal sphere of Operation Marquês apparently playing the system for all its worth, one of the other ‘principal defendants’ is being put through the
Portuguese NGOs demand end to US meddling in Venezuela
Around forty Portuguese NGOs and civil society organistations are demandeding that US President Donald Trump immediately release Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cília Flores, and end US interference in Venezuela.
Finance minister in hospital following suspected TIA
Finance minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento is in hospital today following a suspected TIA (transitory ischemic attack). The 47-year-old is undergoing observation/ tests at Lisbon’s Santa Maria hospital – and further
Another 22 municipalities join 68 covered by ‘situation of calamity’
A government dispatch dated today, and published in state gazette Diário da República, adds another 22 municipalities to the original 68 included in the ‘situation of calamity’ declared at the
Dying patient gets final wish ‘to see and smell the sea’
With media stories returned since the ‘storms crisis’ to criticising INEM (medical emergency institute) – for the time it is taking to reach 112 call-outs – and decrying the deterioration
Agriculture minister gets lesson in good manners
Agriculture minister José Manuel Fernandes – a man who has already sparked outrage in his rants against government agencies that don’t roll over for environmentally harmful projects – got a
Three injured – one critical – after ‘drive-by shooting’ in Lisbon neighbourhood
Three people were injured – one critically – in the early hours of this morning after shots were fired from a car passing through Rua do Benformoso – a street
Police chief turns minister; government thinks outside box
In a complete break with normal practice, Portugal’s government offered Luís Neves, director of the country’s Polícia Judiciária (PJ) criminal investigation police force for the last eight years, the role
Rising cost of foodstuffs forcing nationals to ‘rethink’ how they eat
Various news items today have centred on the rising cost of “basic foods”, like fish and meat (staples of Portuguese cuisine). Universities are appealing for ‘state help’ to stock their
Labour reform ‘impasse’: minister will take proposed changes to parliament regardless
Grinding on now for the best part of six months, ‘negotiations’ over the government proposed labour reforms are still deadlocked. Employers say the changes “don’t warrant this conflict”; unions have