Tough break for PAN parliamentary leader
Inês Sousa Real has been through the mill this week: a blistering television debate with CHEGA leader André Ventura (where both talked over each other incessantly); a pasting in the
Pilot who left GNR GIPs to burn handed suspended sentence
A pilot who dropped a group of five GNR GIPS (emergency unit of special protection) in a wildfire to burn has finally been sentenced to three years in jail, suspended.
Appeal court judges drop jail time for guilty mayor/ deputy mayor
Years on from the crimes that brought him to justice, former mayor of Pedrógão Grande Valdemar Alves has heard that he won’t, in the end, have to spend seven years
‘Fake’ diamond discovered during corruption probe valued at €50,000
The mystery of the diamond, found wrapped in baking powder and a number of business cards, when police searched the premises of Funchal City Hall last month is still lurching
Judicial questioning of former mayor of Funchal ‘abandoned’ after three days
Judicial questioning of former mayor of Funchal Pedro Calado has been abandoned after three days, due to the defendant’s state of exhaustion, say reports today – over two weeks since
Authorities’ water saving measures: “Contradictory, ineffective, out of step, out of time”
Platform for Sustainable Water suggests “immediate concrete measures” With the government’s masterplan of 46 measures designed to save water in the parched Algarve still not approved by the Council of
Bank workers across Portugal and Spain take to streets for better wages
Say banks’ “extraordinary profits” should filter down to rank and file Bank workers in Portugal and Spain are taking to the streets today in a “unified cry of dissatisfaction”. They
Algarve PSP agents fail shooting drill in new suspected form of protest
PSP and GNR police are protesting across the country Twenty-two out of 24 PSP police agents failed their shooting drills in the Algarve last week in what is being interpreted
Barroso lithium mine ‘impact statement’ “flawed by violation of law”
Public prosecutors call for annullment of mine’s ‘green light’ Portugal’s public prosecutor’s office is powering the fight by citizens to stop lithium mining in World Agricultural Heritage site Covas do
Farmers block access to the A4 and IP2 in Macedo de Cavaleiros
“Won’t stand down until there is dialogue” Dozens of farmers have gathered this morning in Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança, forcing the A4 to be cut off. João Faiões, a reporter