Algarve

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com COVERING A NEWS story with the international exposure of the Madeleine McCann case is one of those moments in a journalist’s career that will live with

By: ELOISE WALTON eloise@portugalresident.com AN INDEPENDENT study on the debt situation of Câmaras in Portugal has concluded that the majority of them cannot afford to repay their debts. The study,

PROTESTERS WERE out in force on Saturday morning in Silves to show their opposition to electricity company REN’s plans to erect pylons through Vale Fuzeiros, Casa Queimada and Bicas. Traffic

BUSINESSES IN seven counties in the Algarve, as well as several inland areas in Portugal, will benefit from a reduction in taxes next year. José Sócrates, the Portuguese Prime Minister,

A VERY successful classical music concert took place at the Museu do Trajo Algarvio in São Brás on Saturday The well-known Portuguese trio, Raquel Correia, Inês Barata and Miguel Rocha,

TODAY (FRIDAY), Loulé Câmara has organised a party to officially close the summer workshops that took place throughout the school holidays. The party will take place at the Pátio da

CASTRO MARIM president José Esteven, is opposing the new regulation plan for the Sapal de Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António, the oldest nature reserve in the country.

GALERIA CORTE Real located at the old railway station in Boliqueime is currently exhibiting paintings by the Dutch artist Alma van Wilgenburg. Alma van Wilgenburg’s paintings are characterised by distressed

FOLLOWING THE destruction of part of a genetically modified corn crop at Herdade das Lameiras in Silves (See The Resident, August 24), the President of Almargem, an Algarve-based environmental association,