Back to school (without mobile phones?)
Return from summer sees 60% of schools open ‘on appointed day’ It’s that time of year again: hundreds of thousands of pupils are returning to school from the summer break;
Scientists set off to study “one of Europe’s hidden giants” off Algarve coast
Scientific expedition will study the Gorringe Seamount, the “tallest (underwater) mountain in western Europe” A team of 26 scientists set off from Lisbon on Saturday (September 7) on an expedition
Justice minister speaks for first time since Portugal’s shameful prison break
Flight of five ‘highly dangerous’ men exposes “serious errors” and “sloppiness” Well over 72-hours since five men, jailed for violent crimes, broke out of Vale de Judeus so-called high-security jail
Iconic Famel motorbikes go ‘back to the future’
Company launches round of investment to relaunch brand, with sustainable new edge Famel has launched a round of investment to relaunch the legendary Portuguese motorbike brand, and has already received
Millennium BCP bid for ‘no planning permission compensation’ drops by around €92 million
Bank currently asking Silves municipality for “more than €8 million” After all the tough words, and dizzying numbers, the ‘bid for compensation’ over a planning rebuff for one of the
Pharmacists unhappy they are blocked from vaccinating country’s oldest citizens
Say rules of winter vaccination campaign “disregard needs of older citizens” The Association of Pharmacies of Portugal (AFP) has expressed its regret today that the country’s pharmacies have been excluded
Hoteliers concerned by councils’ trivialisation of tourist taxes
Zeal for increasing tourist taxes sends “wrong signal”, warns association leader President of the Hotel Association of Portugal (AHP) has expressed concern today over the “trivialisation of tourist taxes“, saying
Nine surgeons resign after doctors who denounced bad practices are reinstated
Surgeons represent half Amadora-Sintra’s surgical team Nine doctors from the general surgery service at Hospital Doutor Fernando Fonseca (better known as Amadora-Sintra) have resigned, the hospital’s board of directors has
Porto city council set to raise tourist tax to €3 per night…
Councils throughout Portugal cottoning on to ‘boon’ of tourist tax With councils throughout Portugal leaping on to the ‘tourist tax’ bandwagon, in some cases with a vengeance, Porto is taking
Private and social sector to take charge of providing ‘family doctors’
Numbers without family doctors rose by one million over last five years A new government plan to tackle the increasing problem of Portuguese people without ‘family doctors’ in the SNS