Algarve

JOSÉ MENDES BOTA, Algarve PSD (Social Democrats) leader and newly-elected MP for the Faro district is the son of a dry fruit merchant. The family business trades and exports figs,

WHAT DO you do when someone steals your only pair of shoes? This was the predicament facing French-born Sophie on a bohemian holiday across Europe. And, happily for the rest

The Jewish Community of the Algarve will be celebrating Purim, one of the most joyous festivals in the Jewish calendar, with a tea party on Sunday, March 27. The festival

A YOUNG foreign woman was viciously attacked outside her home in Praia da Luz last week. Her attacker was wearing a mask and gloves and threatened her at knifepoint, demanding

TONY FILIPE is a Portuguese-born Australian immigrant. While in Sydney, he gained most of his experience working for various construction companies and, in 1991, graduated in Building Science at the

VILARIM REIS, Commander of the Bombeiros Voluntários de Portimão, has resigned, declaring that, with the rapid approach of this year’s forest fire season and the absence of any fire-prevention and

IRISH eyes certainly were smiling when the St. Patrick’s Society of the Algarve held its annual St. Patrick’s Celebration at the Vila Petra Hotel in Albufeira. Over 180 members and

CONTINUING drought conditions could bring a revision of the hydrological accord between Portugal and Spain and may see Madrid taking recourse to exceptional circumstances set down in the agreement, whereby