Beira wine best in UK
ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL business broadsheet The Financial Times recommends Portuguese white wine. Quinta do Cardo Siria from the Beira region has been described by the British broadsheet as one of its
Billions from tourism
THE GREATER Lisbon region is estimated to earn a bumper five billion euros from tourism this year. The sum represents around nine per cent of the region’s gross internal product.
Children’s day is every day!
By: Cecília Pires cecilia@portugalresident.com TODAY (JUNE 1), the world is celebrating International Children’s Day. This day was first celebrated in 1956, after a proposal from the International Democratic Federation of
Construction site tragedy
THREE CONSTRUCTION site workers fell 10 metres when a platform on which they were working collapsed on Tuesday, May 22. The accident happened on works progressing on a viaduct that
Description of Suspect Issued
At a press conference held by the Polícia Judiciária at 18.30 on Friday 25 May, Olegário Sousa gave a description of a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The
Deficit cut in half
PORTUGAL’S PUBLIC administration debt was slashed in half by March this year, thanks to cost cutting and increased social security funds. According to statistics by the Bank of Portugal, the
First easyJet plane in Lisbon given award
THE FIRST easyJet plane to land in Lisbon was awarded a giant rosette. The symbolic ceremony, which took place on Tuesday, May 22, at Lisbon’s Portela Airport, involved top brass
Five star hotels to double by 2012
By: Ruth Sharpe ruth@portugalresident.com MANUEL PINHO, Minister for the Economy and Innovation, visited the new Hilton Vilamoura, As Cascatas Golf Resort and Spa, on Tuesday, May 22, to speak with
Flavours of the sea
QUARTEIRA IS currently hosting a seafood festival, entitled Sabores à Beira-Mar, until June 10. Fish and seafood will be the main ingredients in this gastronomic event. Restaurants participating in the
Free HIV testing
CONTINENTE IN Portimão, in collaboration with the HIV/Aids advice and early detection centre in Faro, is providing free HIV testing to all people visiting the shopping centre. The tests are