Portugal

WELL-KNOWN Portuguese High Street bank, Montepio Geral, chose to give the money it would normally spend on Christmas gifts for suppliers and key clients to charity this year. The management’s

QUARTEIRA BASED basketball team, Os Tubarões (The Sharks), is working together with the Associação de Promoção do Desporto Adaptado (ParaSport), an association promoting adapted sporting activities, to create a basketball

THE GABINETE de Apoio à Juventude (GAJ), the youth support office, of Albufeira Câmara is already receiving applications for its yoga classes, due to commence shortly at the municipal swimming

DIMINISHING CRIME in the Algarve is the objective of Faro’s Civil Governor António Pina, who has recently announced a project that aims to introduce, from May of this year, video

IT HAS recently been reported that a scam, involving counterfeit top of the range cameras and watches, is being operated in the Algarve. At first, it appears to be a

A 49-YEAR-old German man was arrested in Marmelete, Monchique, after being found with 15 doses of cocaine and 30 grammes of hashish. The man, who was caught by the criminal

POLICE IN Vila Real de Santo António recently carried out a series of raids on premises storing fishing equipment on Monte Gordo beach, resulting in the seizure of 1,600 doses

LAGOA’S CULTURAL association, Idéias do Levante, has started two more classes of Hatha-Yoga, led by Corinne Braga. Hatha-Yoga believes the body is a vehicle for the spirit and, over the