Hospital outrage
Despite assurances from Portimão hospital director Pedro Nunes that all is well, around 100 protesters, including doctors, nurses and out-patients, turned up in force this week to complain about the
All aboard for a 40-hour workweek
Despite the welter of angry protests, Portugal’s Constitutional Court has given the go-ahead to government plans to add five hours to state workers’ weekly timetables. It means public sector workers
Government’s ‘Magalhães scam’ winds up with debts of €35 million
It was paraded by former Socialist Prime Minister José Sócrates as the “most ambitious and important” educational plan that would “make Portugal one of the top five most technologically advanced
Diabetes deaths hit record high
The number of people dying in Portugal from diabetes in 2012 hit a record high – 13 deaths per day. A report from the National Diabetes Observatory revealed that the
2014 state budget draft approved
It has sparked endless protests and has been voted against by every member of the Opposition, yet on Tuesday the coalition government approved the controversial draft of the 2014 State
December ‘week of mourning’ to protest against government
A ‘week of mourning’ against the government and more austerity is being organised by Portugal’s largest trade union, CGTP, and will take place between December 16 and 20 – a
Christmas spirit to fill the streets of Portimão and Ferragudo
An original festive project organised by non-profit association Teia D’Impulsos is planning to bring Christmas cheer to the streets of Portimão and Ferragudo, while also boosting local commerce. ‘Caminho dos
Rally of Portugal needs to stay in Algarve, says Loulé Mayor
Following a recent national news item stating that the hitherto Algarve-based WRC Rally of Portugal is to move north in 2015, Loulé Mayor Vitor Aleixo has asked for an urgent
Paedophile police officer arrested
A GNR police officer found guilty of 14 separate cases of paedophilia has been sentenced to 11 years behind bars by a court in Idanha-a-Nova, near Castelo Branco. His mistress
Domestic violence: 33 murders, 32 attempted murders
Despite all the work done nationally to help victims of domestic violence, 2013 has already seen 33 women killed by their partners and another 32 battered to the extent that