Letters

Dear Editor, A pressing issue in the Algarve is the daily reports of the systematic burglaries and robberies which appear unstoppable. The criminal element now does not honour you the courtesy

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

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

Dear Editor, Thank you for keeping us updated by publishing stories about actions against crime being taken by local residents in the Algarve. As a mother and an owner of

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

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

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

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

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

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