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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
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’
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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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.