Portimão mayor calls for “temporary toll exemption” to ease building works bottlenecks
Álvaro Bila wants drivers free to use A22 between Portimão and Lagoa Traffic snarl-ups as a result of works around Portimão’s ER125 bridge are so bad that Portimão mayor Álvaro
New PSP unit forms focussed on Portugal’s frontier controls
“Government wants more effective control of immigrants” – tabloid Today’s Council of Ministers is tipped to approve the formation of a new PSP unit to man the country’s borders, and
Portuguese-flagged ship ‘carrying weapons for Israel’ days from docking
More appeals for Portugal to withdraw flag from MV Kathrin The Portuguese-flagged cargo ship carrying explosive material for Israel is days from docking in port in Montenegro, from which point
Morgado do Quintão hosts Harvest Party on October 5
The annual end-of-grape-harvest event “celebrates Algarve wine, the territory and the culture” of one of the most irreverent producers in the region. Morgado do Quintão is once again celebrating the
Sevenair pulls plug on Portimão-Bragança air link
Group cites State’s ‘non-payment’ of almost €4 million The Sevenair Group announced today that the Portimão-Bragança air link will stop on Monday due to the non-payment of the service by
Health inspectors open disciplinary proceedings against doctors at Faro Hospital
IGAS finds half complaints raised by whistleblower intern show “solid signs of violation of leges artis” The furore caused last year by a young whistleblowing doctor serving her internship at
Portugal’s PM in New York ahead of UN General Assembly
Luís Montenegro has three days in the US before returning to Portugal to settle budget controversy Far from being available to tour fire-damaged municipalities (as PS secretary general Pedro Nuno
“Replace health minister with someone who understands health!”
Strike by doctors and nurses brings further chaos to beleaguered SNS health system With the start of a two-day strike by doctors and nurses postponing thousands of consultations and interventions,
Silja Nergaard is Algarve All Jazz’ 24 guest performer
The Norwegian Jazz singer will team up with the Algarve Jazz Orchestra for three concerts between September 29 and October 24. Algarve All Jazz ’24, the third edition of the
Former BES Angola president, self style philanthropist Álvaro Sobrinho charged with aggravated money laundering
Sobrinho accused of using BES money to invest in Sporting football club Álvaro Sobrinho, former president of Banco Espírito Santo in Angola – and a self-styled philanthropist – has been