Horrific weekend sees two three-year-olds drown in Portuguese swimming pools
Two three-year-old boys – one of them English – drowned in separate tragedies in Portugal last weekend. One drowned on holiday with his family in Óbidos, the other in Lagos.The
Carlos Costa remains in driving seat as Bank of Portugal hands out €5 million in BES “fines”
Against a background of so much controversy that he could be termed the Portuguese banking sector’s equivalent of Houdini, governor of the Bank of Portugal Carlos Costa has secured a
Criminal investigation opens into Portugal’s Miró sale fiasco
Lisbon’s DIAP (department of penal action) has opened a criminal investigation into the machinations behind the Portuguese government’s catastrophic attempts to sell 85 paintings by celebrated Spanish artist Joan Miró
Call-girl orgy-tainted ex-Portuguese ambassador in new scandal over “visas for sex”
The 70-year-old uncle of PSD parliamentary leader Luís Montenegro is back in the news today after a court found him guilty of processing hundreds of entry visas to Europe for
World’s economic brains converge on Portugal to discuss European “recovery”
As Portugal basked in the first taste of summer, the world’s financial brains were thrashing it out in the leafy splendour of Penha Longa – a VIP golf resort less
Stony-faced troika on way back to Portugal
Four months before Portugal’s legislative elections, the so-called troika – always photographed with the stoniest of faces – is due back for the country’s second “post-programme” evaluation. Scheduled to arrive
ACRAL calls for union to promote Algarve as “trustworthy brand”
Victor Guerreiro, president of the Algarve Retailers Association (ACRAL), has called on local businesspeople, associations and public entities to join forces to promote the Algarve as a “trustworthy brand” that
Scrap metal merchant’s wife found dead on dump
In what appears to be a tragic case of sudden death, the wife of a scrap metal dealer in Vila Nova de Poiares (Coimbra) was found dead earlier this week
Lisbon’s Santa Maria hospital “dominated by Masons, Opus Dei and political parties”
Portugal’s Hospital de Santa Maria, the largest in country, is “mined by a web of interests and loyalties to political parties, Masons and catholic organisations” like Opus Dei, a study
Horror in Faro as man kills wife in café
“You want a divorce, do you?” were the words shouted by the man who is understood to have fatally shot his wife this afternoon (May 28) at a Faro café