Algarve

MORE THAN 8,000 euros has been given to Quarteira basketball club, Os Tubarões (The Sharks), to buy three wheelchairs for disabled athletes in their wheelchair basketball team. The money was

CAROLINE MAUD Barton celebrated her 101st birthday on March 15 in style at the Bellavista Hotel in Luz. “I didn’t want a big party like last year, but the numbers

A PROMISE has been made to increase environmental protection and impose harsher penalties on those who break environmental laws in the Algarve. The environment protection service of the GNR and

A WOMAN was seriously injured last week after being involved in a collision with a car in Pateiro, Lagoa. The 83-year-old woman had been walking along the side of a

AN INVESTIGATION was launched in November, at the request of Silves Câmara President Isabel Soares, into the involvement of five workers in irregularities of five million euros worth of construction

The St. Patrick’s Society of the Algarve is open to all nationalities who have an interest in or enjoy the Irish way of life, sense of humour and enjoyment. Music

By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com MORE THAN four months after British expatriate Gary Lopez was overcharged at wholesale outlet Makro in Albufeira, the situation is still unresolved. In November 2006, Gary

NEW FACILITIES finally appear to be on the horizon for Lagos PSP, following news that the public tender for construction of the city’s new police station will be launched in

By: Caroline Cunha

A SPECIAL dinner has been organised by the Jewish Community of the Algarve to celebrate the first night of the eight-day Passover Festival on April 2. At the celebration, to