Covid numbers in freefall as parents (and children) ‘don’t understand’ why masks still need to be worn in schools
Monday’s Covid bulletin shows Portugal’s numbers now are in free-fall. But the day is also serving to highlight the ‘lack of coherence’ in government decision-making. Very much as IL leader
Portugal drops five main Covid restrictions, promising they’ll all go in five weeks time
STORY AS IT APPEARED IN OUR PAPER EDITION ON FEBRUARY 24 Portugal’s Council of Ministers approved the first steps towards regaining our freedoms last Thursday – and president Marcelo rubber-stamped
Lisbon parish says “no” to Netflix
The Lisbon parish of Santa Maria is digging its heels in over a plan, apparently welcomed by the city’s mayor, to allow Netflix to use the streets for a week
BES: “most complex criminal inquiry in history of Portuguese investigation” doesn’t get off the ground as scheduled …
The instruction phase of the BES/ GES ‘mega-case’ was due to begin today, over seven years since the banking empire imploded, costing (still costing) the Portuguese taxpayer untold billions. In
Six flights cancelled due to strong winds in Madeira
Six flights into Madeira – three from UK, all run by airline Jet2 – have had to be cancelled today due to strong winds which have been affecting the island
Killer of Portuguese-French child Maëlys de Araujo condemned to life imprisonment
Almost five years since the disappearance of eight-year-old Maëlys de Araujo, a child whose father is Portuguese and mother French, the man who killed her has heard he will spend
Serbian ambassador drowns at Boca do Inferno (Mouth of Hell), Cascais
Serbian ambassador Oliver Antic has died today, apparently drowned, at the notorious beauty spot ‘Boca do Inferno’ (Mouth of Hell) off the Cascais boardwalk. It’s not clear how the accident
Hundreds of thousands tune in to watch planes land at Heathrow in gale force winds – TAP’s flight TP1354 turns back
Hundreds of thousands were watching live-stream from Heathrow in UK this morning as planes from all over the world battled gale force winds to land as Storm Eunice pummeled the
New species of dinosaur ‘discovered’ in Cabo Espichel
A ‘new’ species of predatory dinosaur, able to grow serrated teeth whenever others broke, has been ‘discovered’ in Cabo Espichel, in the borough of Sesimbra. The Iberospinus natarioi was a
Luso-Dutch jihadi bride sentenced to four and a half years in jail
A court in Rotterdam has today condemned a Luso-Dutch former ‘jihadi bride’ to four and a half years in jail. Ângela Barreto returned to Holland from Syria after six years,