Harm reduction in prisons
Following a damning report into the state of the country’s prisons, the government is under pressure to set up heroin injection rooms in its overcrowded jails, where widespread drug use
Health boost for region
Two historic events concerning the Algarve’s health service took place recently. The first was the opening of the Hospital da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Portimão. The new health facility
Healthy feet
Ann Bull is an English state registered chiropodist who started her practice here in January 2003. She works in the Cloud 9 Health and Beauty Salon at Alto Club in
High-class robbery
A police spokesman has revealed that officers now believe that a well-dressed woman in her fifties, who robbed several stores in Évora and Portimão using photocopies of stolen cheques, is
In the swing – Time and tide wait for no man…
Another year over and a new one just begun. I think I can feel a song coming on! Anyway, it is that time when we reflect on what might have
Major developments for Silves
Six-luxury hotels – all of four or five stars – including various holiday villages and five new golf courses are to be built in Silves, the second biggest concelho in
Money for ports
Government ministers have agreed to invest 300 million euros, between now and 2006, on modernising Portugal’s main harbours and introducing cargo handling specialisation, according to Public Works Minister António Pedro
New year, new hope
Staff at the Omega Parque in Monchique were delighted with their Christmas present: a very rare baby Sulawaesi macaque, or Macaca nirgra, born to mother Mee and proud father Bug.
News in brief…News in brief…
• The European Commission has decided to grant 200 million euros for a R&D programme aimed at fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries. The European and Developing Countries
No to marshals
Portugal has announced that it will not allow armed air marshals on flights to and from America, despite a request from the United States made amid fresh security fears about