Portuguese government delivers hope to nation’s under-35s
AD government sets out to stop qualified young people leaving country by ‘fixing’ housing impasse Portugal’s minority centre-right government presented its reworked blueprint to fix the country’s crippling housing crisis
Court acquits pilot who killed two by landing on packed beach in August
Pilot chose to land on beach as ‘ditching’ into sea would almost certainly have killed him and his passenger The pilot accused of two counts of negligent homicide during an
PM to address nation over decision on location of new Lisbon airport
Alcochete finally agreed upon After well over half a century of delays, mind-changing and embarrassing false starts, Portugal’s AD government has decided that Lisbon’s new airport will be located at
AIMA immigration agency ‘problems’ to be resolved ‘ very soon’, pledges minister
Police called to agency’s offices after hundreds of migrants complain of human rights violations PSP police were called to two AIMA (immigration agency) offices today as hundreds of migrants complained
Portugal contributes two planes to EU’s special firefighting fleet
Fleet to be deployed in strategic locations, ready to help tackle forest fires Portugal is contributing two light aeroplanes to the European Union’s (EU) special summer fleet for fighting forest
Metro tells residents waiting to return to homes, “wait a little longer”…
Over 30 households rehoused in Lisbon due to improvement works on the Metro have been given a firm date by which they can return to their homes. Residents of Travessa
Porto health unit ‘coordinators’ want changes to reformed system
With so many problems emanating from the ‘health service reform’ instigated by the State health service’s ‘executive direction’, coordinators of health centres involved in the ULS (local health unit structure)
Government improves on ‘repayment terms’ for nation’s State system teachers
Teachers syndicates have succeeded in getting the government to ‘increase’ its proposal for restoring the six years, six months and 23 days, still ‘frozen’ from teachers’ careers within the State
Book launch: “Diaries of Those Nobody Wants”
Algarve photographer Carlos Filipe launches a book recounting the stories of abandoned pets to help raise funds for Animalife charity. Algarve-based photographer Carlos Filipe has launched “Diários dos Que Ninguém
Drought hokey-cokey: Portugal back in
Having exited meteorological drought in March, the Portuguese mainland is already creeping back into it: the latest climate bulletin shows around 8% of national territory back in ‘weak meteorological drought’