Doctors and nurses sound alert as various hospitals start struggling with demands
More than 40 patients lined up in corridors in Setúbal hospital; Torres Vedras A&E transferring the critically ill because it didn’t have the medical teams to treat them; Lisbon maternity
Checkered start to new school year
The new school year began in earnest yesterday with all kinds of hiccups along the way. It hasn’t been a case of Covid-19 causing problems this time, but a teachers’
Portugal’s rail network on track for new dramas due to lack of ‘cleanliness and disinfection’
CP, Portugal’s beleaguered rail network is under a new threat. Certain trains could actually be stopped from running due to a lack of ‘cleanliness and disinfection’. Many would say this
SEF strike at Portugal’s airports: ANA warns passengers ‘waiting times’ will increase
It is described as a ‘partial strike’, but borders agency SEF’s work to rule starting in all Portugal’s airports tomorrow is certain to cause upsets. ANA airports authority has already
Thousands of passengers in limbo as Groundforce workers strike, causing ‘hundreds of cancellations’
Thousands of airline passengers have been left in limbo as the first few hours of a strike by Groundforce baggage-handlers saw the cancellation of over 180 flights. Indeed, the number
SEF ‘suspends strike action’ following government’s civil requisition hard ball
SEF inspectors syndicate has finally dropped its threat of a strike that would have ‘paralysed tourism’ (click here) thanks to the government playing hard ball in the form of a
Strike by border guards threatens to “ruin Portugal’s summer”
A strike called by borders agency SEF is threatening to ruin Portugal’s summer. This is the interpretation of the recovering tourism sector as well as council chiefs in the Algarve.
Lisbon mayor brokers end to Portugal’s embarrassingly high-profile hunger strike
Lisbon mayor Fernando Medina managed last night to broker the end of Portugal’s embarrassingly high-profile hunger strike that had been camped outside parliament for almost a week. At a moment
Hunger strike outside Portuguese parliament faces day 7: Bosnian chef ‘back from hospital’
Yesterday’s ‘breaking news’ from the hunger strike outside Portugal’s parliamentary building was that celebrity chef and figurehead of the ‘Bread & Water movement’ Ljubomir Stanisic was ‘showing signs of ceding
Hunger strikers outside Portuguese parliament ‘left hanging’
Now into their fifth gruelling day without food, the eight men and one woman on hunger strike outside parliament in Lisbon have received cold comfort from prime minister António Costa.