Migrating birds
Dear Editor, I have lived in Loulé for 26 years and always look forward to “the return of the birds”. Today, January 27, I saw three house martins going back
System protects offenders – Letter #2
Dear Editor, I am so glad to read that at last the issue of crime/burglary/robbery has at long last been aired on television (Algarve Resident, January 29 edition) and that
Crime spoiling Portugal’s beauty
Dear Editor, I have been coming to the Portugal since the early 1990s, and I have had a residence here in the Algarve since 2007. I have noticed a huge
Stray dogs (Algarve Resident, January 29 edition)
Dear Editor, Instead of ‘clamping down’ on stray dogs, perhaps the Portuguese people and authorities should try to address the root of the stray dog problem. This is twofold: Portuguese
Open letter to the Civil Governor of Faro
Almost every week now there are reports of crime, letters from those who suffer. What is your response? At first it seemed to be, ‘nothing is wrong, the statistics show
Penal Code needs changing
Dear Editor, Portugal should change its Penal Code as there is no other alternative! I have just read your articles on crime in the Algarve. I had an attempted break
Algarve crime wave
Dear Editor, I think you should investigate into it all more. Why don’t the police care? Who is giving us any protection? Why are they focusing on Loulé area? Maybe
Algarvian January
Restless grey lifts a curtain of gloom, hanging about like a thug on a street corner, tarnished horizons wearing drab clothes, ghostly silhouettes dance in the macabre wind. Walls dribblingly
Almadena Choir
Dear Editor, I wish to apologise to Mr John Watts for allowing his name to be published in the last edition of the Algarve Resident stating that he was to be
Stray dogs
Dear Editor, Stray dogs are a very emotive subject in the Algarve but I have to write to let you know that I am sick of people feeding them and

