Who has won a colour consultation
ONCE AGAIN, The Resident was inundated with competition entries, this time to win a personal colour consultation and lunch worth 125 euros. Congratulations to Jackie Brown of Silves who has
God can help us to get through the day
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com WITHOUT PRAYER, how do those who have no faith get through a day when everything goes wrong? Perhaps a child is missing or sons and daughters
Innovative baby register
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com FARO HOSPITAL is among five units in Portugal to introduce a new system to electronically register babies on site without having to go to your local
Silves President backs residents over pylons
By: Caroline Cunha caroline@portugalresident.com PRESIDENT OF Silves Câmara, Isabel Soares, has given residents in the borough’s Vale Fuzeiros area her full backing to fight against the installation of electricity pylons
Sports complex ready for inauguration
By: Ruth Sharpe ruth@portugalresident.com EXCITEMENT IS building among Lagos residents in the run up to the inauguration of the town’s new sports complex Complexo Desportivo de Lagos – Pavilhão Municipal,
Attacker targets beach
By: Louise Pimm louise@portugalresident.com IT SEEMS that women are still being targeted in violent attacks throughout the Algarve as yet another female expatriate was brutally attacked. Following the brutal assault
Caribbean cricket bargains
Sponsored by PDM Travel pdm@portugalresident.com THE PRICES of Caribbean holidays are being cut dramatically because hoteliers are struggling to fill their properties during the Cricket World Cup, due to the
Dirt Slingling
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com AN ELEMENTARY school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing excrement on a child in Toronto, Canada. Maria Pantalone was charged with assaulting two children but only
Dirty dentist
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A BRITISH dentist has been found guilty of urinating in his surgery sink, using dentistry tools to clean his fingernails and ears, and not wearing gloves
Friday the 13th
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com EXACTLY 44 years ago, I opened my big, blue eyes for the very first time in a maternity ward in Lagos. Hold on, before you start