Canada beckons?
The province of Manitoba, Canada, is seeking 100 Portuguese workers from the construction industry, Portugal’s honorary consul Paulo Jorge Cabral announced in Winnipeg. Candidates need to be qualified in areas
ATM bonanza
It was another coup for ‘Multibanco’ robbers in the Cascais area last week. This time a group – as yet unknown – managed to blow up a machine in Carcavelos,
Portugal to host Wings for Life World Run charity event
A global charity event, ‘Wings for Life World Run’, is poised to help fund research into curing spinal cord injury. The run is scheduled to take place simultaneously on May
Spanish man arrested for shooting at police officers
A court in Porto heard how Spaniard Carlos Javier had a history of domestic violence, but one of the most bizarre complaints by his ex was that he had tried
Porto tube stabbing
Metro commuters in Porto lived moments of horror when a passenger stabbed his male lover in front of them, leaving the victim with a “face covered in blood”. “We all
Loulé Carnaval gets personal
It is still fresh in many people’s minds and has become the slogan for this year’s carnival in Loulé: the “irrevocable” decision by CDS leader Paulo Portas to step down
Eco group slams government’s ‘lucky invoice lottery’
As the government tries to draw a public into its anti-tax evasion plan of offering high-end cars in a weekly lottery to anyone who puts their tax details onto official
Sex slave ring sentenced
A supreme court in Porto has handed out stiff prison sentences to a trafficking ring that forced young Romanian girls to act as sex slaves. The youngsters were lured to
Aphrodisiac scare
Food safety authority ASAE is investigating three aphrodisiacs on sale in sex shops, marked as food supplements. The products should have been removed from sale over a week ago, but
Surf's up in Portimão
It looked like Portimão mayor Isilda Gomes had brushed up on her surf speak as the short film ‘Algarve’ was shown at the TEMPO theatre in Portimão on Saturday night