Portugal

THE NUMBER of batteries collected in Portugal in 2007 increased by 10 per cent compared with figures from 2006, revealed a report from Ecopilhas, the company responsible for collecting the

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com MOUNTAINS of construction rubble illegally dumped by building sites and at road sides has lead to a new environmental law to regulate construction waste. The 5.2

THE LETTERS ‘c’, ‘p’ and ‘h’ could soon be removed from Portuguese words where they are not pronounced, in an attempt to unify and simplify the language. It could mean

By: ELOISE WALTON eloise@the-resident.com AN ACCIDENT between a lorry and a truck on the EN125 junction opposite the International school of the Algarve in Porches destroyed the two vehicles and

A NEW bishop for Lisbon, nominated by Pope Bento XVI, was ordained on Sunday at a ceremony at the Jerónimos monastery. Joaquim da Silva Mendes, 60, has been elected as

AROUND 2,000 pensioners marched through the streets of Lisbon on Saturday calling for a new deal from the government. The organisers said the demonstration was a form of complaining about

PORTUGUESE FAMILY budgets are increasingly being swallowed up by mortgage repayments according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). Over the past 15 years, the spending profile of the average consumer

THE HEAD of Portugal’s Order of Lawyers has made a controversial visit to a Nazi-sympathetic skinhead in a Lisbon prison. Bastonário António Marinho e Pinto visited Mário Machado who has

AROUND 10,000 traffic lights in Lisbon are to be fitted with new LED bulbs and solar panels in a bid to reduce running costs and improve security. The bulbs currently

THE LEADER of Portugal’s opposition PSD party, Luís Filipe Menezes, has pledged to reduce VAT to 16 per cent by 2013, should his party win the General Election next year.