Operation Marquês’ latest defendant goes home to “luxury mansion”
Home in time to enjoy the long-weekend, Leiria businessman Joaquim Barroca Rodrigues has been released from jail on an electronic bracelet to the kind of domiciliary arrest many would dream
Online gambling becomes legal on June 28
Starting June 28, online gambling will be legal in Portugal. The announcement was made on Wednesday (April 29) by the Secretary of State for Tourism Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, who intimated
Ria Formosa update: call for resignation of “demolition man” Sebastião Teixeira
News just in to the Resident as the country clocks off for Labour Day weekend is that a council meeting in Faro this evening will debate a PS resolution calling
Amaral to appeal as Portuguese start reacting to McCanns’ “libel win”
Confirmed by journalist Len Port today, Gonçalo Amaral is set to appeal against the vast sum of damages awarded against him in the civil action for defamation taken out by
PJ raids clearly link Sócrates investigation with probe into Golden Visa fraud
PJ police investigations into the labyrinthine intrigues of multiple corruption investigations involving government figures have now flagged up clear crossovers between the Sócrates investigation (Operation Marquês) and that into the
President hopeful wants to be “everything Cavaco was not”
A former university boss who claims he will strive to be “everything Cavaco was not” has been confirmed as the ninth official candidate in the race for the presidency. António
Politicians and businesses discuss ways of banishing the scourge of gender inequality
Politicians and businesses got round the table on Tuesday (April 28) to discuss ways of banishing the scourge of gender inequality. The idea for equal pay for both sexes was
One dead and eight injured in horrific tourist bus accident on EN125 near Guia
One person has died and another eight are injured after a bus carrying tourists crashed into a house on the side of the EN125 between Guia and the Zoomarine theme
Portugal bans Smartphone taxi service amid wave of protests
News that American “alternative taxi service” Uber has been banned from Portugal with immediate effect has caused a wave of protests on social media. Lisbon’s Court of Appeal accepted an
Abortion go-ahead for 12-year-old raped by stepfather
A team of medical experts has decided that whatever the abortion law says about gestational deadlines, a 12-year-old raped by her 43-year-old stepfather should not have to go through the