Algarve flooding – our debt of gratitude
Dear Editor, Sunday, November 1, 2015 should have been a rest day for many, but instead it was a day where many in the emergency services put their lives at
Call centre to help foreigners
Dear Editor, I would like to refer to the article “Portugal has massive potential” about Mr. Paul Henri Schelfhout (last week’s edition). I think it was a wonderful article, and
Earthquake school panic
Dear Editor, When earthquakes hit the Algarve it seems I’m always driving, or sleeping, or doing something that doesn’t allow me to feel them. Well, I sure felt last week’s
Portimão’s potholes
Dear Editor, I know that Portimão council is basically bankrupt, but couldn’t it find some way of improving the roads in the town so that we don’t have to watch
Professional entertainment
Dear Editor, You recently ran a competition for the Vale de Lobo concert. Regretfully the winner (hope he/she wasn’t ill) could not go, so, as second, we went! As always,
Oil secret
Dear Editor, Despite the best efforts of your newspaper and other local publications, it seems the whole “oil business” is going somewhat under the radar. Aren’t people worried about the
Portimão: EN125 chaos
Dear Editor, I’m sure I’m among the many people who are at their wit’s end with the roadworks that have been taking place on the EN125 road near Portimão. Not
RE: Vila do Bispo council in hot sea for clearing path on 250-million-year-old clifftop
Dear Editor, I’m not a specialist in these matters, but after causing such backlash, couldn’t Vila do Bispo’s council just admit it messed up and try to fix what it
Abstention is alarming
Dear Editor, Even though we were all expecting it, abstention levels in Portugal reached record-breaking levels once again in last weekend’s legislative elections. At such a delicate time in the
Worrying story
Dear Editor, Your story on the German doctor who had to flee the Algarve has to be one of the most worrying I can remember. It seems there are two