Newly-founded migrations agency calls overtime strike
Strike “will delay even further” backlog of hundreds of thousands of cases AIMA, the agency for integration, migration and asylum, created out of the extinction of SEF (the former borders
Modern Music Festival returns to Praia da Luz this week
LagosMMFest’24 brings pop, rock, funk, soul and jazz to the seaside town between August 15 to 18. Praia da Luz will be the epicentre of modern music this week with
President calls for “country to serve young, young to serve country”
But new study shows Portugal’s young people feel sidelined by ageism Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has called on “everyone to make possible a country at the service of
Portugal condemns Israel’s latest attack on school in Gaza as “intolerable”
Portugal’s government is unequivocal over its stance in regard to Israel’s perpetuation of ‘intolerable attacks’ on the people trapped in Gaza. The latest, on a school building sheltering refugees who
PJ arrests two men suspected of attempted murder in the Algarve
The detainees, aged 22 and 27, kidnapped a man in Quarteira in the municipality of Loulé at the beginning of July. The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two men suspected of
Portuguese woman among 62 victims of Brazil air crash
… and the ‘mistake’ that saved 10 passengers who missed the flight After initially saying there were no Portuguese victims among the plane crash that killed everyone on board in
Spaniard who shot young women in Alentejo “murdered couple in Spain”
‘Manolo’ spent most of his life in prison before ‘fleeing Spain for Portugal’ in 2019 The elderly man – currently in preventive custody for the attempted murder and rape of
“Never have there been so many arsonists in jail”
Portugal’s crackdown on arson appears to show results It is early days yet – but so far this year, the number of wildfires assailing Portugal has been reduced on recent
Tourist tax stampede: now it’s turn of communist-led Setúbal
Portugal’s municipalities see tourist tax as new ‘fast-track’ to raising money As of September, communist-led Setúbal City Council is to start charging a tourist tax of €2 per guest of
Algarve desalination plans: “authorities finally appreciate high costs involved”
Sustainable water platform reiterates alternatives to “total lack of logic in management of public money” With the costs of the desalination plant planned for Albufeira now seeing Algarve councils totting