MED Festival aims to eliminate cigarette butts completely
To keep its venue free of cigarette butts, the organisation is encouraging the use of eco-friendly ashtrays. At the MED’24 Festival in Loulé this week, festival-goers will receive pocket-sized eco-ashtrays
Albuquerque ‘insists on staying’ while Madeiran government falters
Madeira’s minority government has its back against the wall, unable to muster enough votes in favour of its programme to officially ‘take office’. Lesser leaders may have already thrown in
Albufeira invites “Children to the Stage” on June 28
The new singing programme aims to find the best voices among the municipality’s primary school children. Under the motto “Educating to Sing,” Albufeira has introduced the “Crianças ao Palco” (Children
Ukraine’s war wounded applauded by government and MPs (except PCP communists)
The first group of Ukrainian war wounded who arrived in Portugal last week for rehabilitation treatment were roundly applauded today during their visit to parliament. Prime minister Luís Montenegro referred
Railworkers ordered to ensure 25% of services during strike on Friday
Portugal’s Arbitration Tribunal has ordered mandatory minimum passenger rail services of around 25% for a planned strike on Friday by employees of State company CP – Comboios de Portugal –
Video game consortium creates 112 jobs, invests almost €30 million
eGames Lab, a consortium of 22 organisations funded by the PRR (Plan for Recovery and Resilience), which aims to create a cluster for Portugal’s creative video games industry, has created
Seven-year-old ‘handed over’ to uncle who sexually abused her 360 times
Psychologist alerts to “profound impact” of decision by child protection commission A seven year old girl was handed over to an uncle by the CPCJ (commission for the protection of
Explosion in family home kills mother and nine-year old daughter
Father and teenage son both seriously injured Portugal’s criminal investigation police, the PJ, are investigating the cause of an explosion early this morning in a house in Vila Nova de
€14 billion spent, millions in deficit: the full catastrophe of Portugal’s public health service
2023 saw SNS health service register €435 million deficit Portugal’s SNS public health service is forever in the headlines for the fact that departments are closed/ users unhappy/ medical professionals
PJ police destroy seven tonnes of drugs
Marking international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking today, PJ criminal police are due to destroy around seven tonnes of various types of illicit substances. The drugs will have