Northern hotels almost sold out for Easter
The hotel occupancy rate in the Porto and Northern Portugal region for Easter will be between 85% and 90%, Turismo do Porto e Norte de Portugal (TPNP) has estimated. Speaking
Police help ‘rescue’ beggars’ dwarf rabbits
Police in Lisbon, supporting the city’s Animal Ombudsman (‘Provedoria dos Animais’) and SOS Coelhos Portugal (SOS Rabbits Portugal), have ‘rescued’ (for this read ‘removed to an animal refuge’) eight dwarf
SNS health service ARSes finally become extinct
The Portuguese health service ARSes (standing for Regional Health Administrations, famously ridiculed by English-speakers by dint of their initials) are finally no more. The final Council of Ministers of the
Court of Appeal throws new curved ball into Sócrates saga
The seemingly endless saga of litigation surrounding former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates – famously jailed in 2014/15 over a complicated corruption probe – hit another corner this week as
Former governor under suspicion of various crimes re-elected leader of PSD Madeira
Miguel Albuquerque who resigned his position as regional governor of Madeira in the wake of a corruption probe (that later appeared to have stalled) has now been voted back as
President Marcelo to dissolve Madeiran parliament next week
With so much going on on the national political scene, Madeira too is in a state of ‘flux’: President Marcelo is due to dissolve the regional assembly next week, which
Army chief speaks out over NATO mission involving Portugal
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces General José Nunes da Fonseca said today that the NATO mission in the Baltic, which is being joined by a detached
PJ police seize 500,000 doses of cocaine, arrest four, at Lisbon airport
PJ police have seized more than 500,000 doses of cocaine, detaining three Portuguese citizens and one foreigner at Humberto Delgado Airport, in Lisbon, on suspicion of drug trafficking. In a
Young family mown at bus stop down by speeding driver
A young Portuguese woman, her Brazilian husband and their two young children are all dead following a hideous event in San Francisco, USA, last Saturday which saw an elderly woman
President of Constitutional Court warns of threats to freedom and dignity in society
The president of the Constitutional Court has today defended that the Constitution will only be “truly fulfilled” when a “freer, fairer and more fraternal Portugal” is achieved in its preamble,