Taxman with new thrust to oust illegal renters
Portugal’s tax authorities are planning a new attack on illegal renters – the “powerful parallel market” they have long been pledging to stop. According to Jornal de Notícias, the plan
Weather warning: Authorities say cold “might increase spread of respiratory viruses”
Portugal’s health board DGS has launched a warning over the effect of the plunging temperatures these coming days, saying that the cold “might increase the spread of respiratory viruses, such
Mário Soares back in the (not so) hot seat
Even as a 90-year-old former head of state, Mário Soares is keeping the authorities on their toes. According to press reports this morning, his provocative comments made last week in
Hepatitis C patient dies after being denied “life-saving drug”
Portugal’s latest health ‘disgrace’ centres on a 51-year-old Hepatitis C patient who died last week after being denied access to a “life-saving drug” that the manufacturers had reportedly pledged to
Environmentalists slam council over Ria de Alvor development plans
Environmentalists have had to rap Portimão Council firmly over the knuckles for its failure to see through a development plan for protected land at Quinta do Rocha, Ria de Alvor.
Couple found shot in the head in Vilamoura
A couple in their 30s has been found shot in the head but still “alive and conscious” at around 10.30am this morning (February 5) in Praia da Falésia, Vilamoura, in
Passos and Greek PM Tsipras to meet face-to-face
Portuguese PM Pedro Passos Coelho has dismissed Greece’s anti-austerity agenda as “fairytale”, but next week he will be meeting with the country’s buoyant new leader Alexis Tsipras. The face-to-face encounter
Porto employment court says government must make-up BPN workers’ lopped salaries
The state does not want to replace the salaries of BPN workers, lopped in the name of austerity between 2011and 2014 – but the Porto employment court says it must.
Ozardi Tavira Hotel bids for international “Building of the Year”
The Ozadi Tavira Hotel is one of the finalists of the international ‘Building of the Year 2015’ competition launched by online architecture portal ArchDaily. The hotel was built in 1970
Braga drug-dealer handed suspended sentence gets sent to jail by appeal court
Manuel Joaquim, 49, started a four-and-a-half year sentence for drug dealing this week after being handed a suspended sentence three years ago. In that time, he has quit his former