Missing Brazilian
Another Brazilian woman has suddenly disappeared without trace. After the mystery of the Brazilian who went missing after taking out the trash in Tabuaço one evening, there is now the story of a 55-year-old, living in Almada, working as a nanny who has ‘dropped off the radar’ to the despair of her husband and son, waiting to come to Portugal from Brazil. Lucinete Freitas, was last seen on December 5.
Luggage pilfering
Almost a year since former CHEGA MP Miguel Arruda hit the headlines for allegedly pilfering the luggage of fellow passengers travelling between Lisbon and the Azores, the case against him for qualified theft has been concluded, and he is to be formally charged and tried in court. This was always a bizarre chapter, even for CHEGA, which has had more than its fair share of representatives caught in unedifying circumstances.
Solar protest
A platform of citizens is planning a mega-protest in Lisbon in the New Year against the installation of ‘mega solar power plants’ in the Beira Baixa region. They claim the plants will cover vast areas with a ‘black blanket’ of panels that will destroy a “diversity of activities that bring life to the region and cannot be jeopardised in the name of an energy model that is not green”.
Space agency
The Azores regional government and the Portuguese Space Agency have signed a cooperation protocol aimed at establishing the archipelago as an “Atlantic hub” for space activities. The deal is based on the recognition of the strategic value of the Azores region for the national and European space ecosystem, particularly in the areas of earth observation, communications, access to and return from space, science and technology, education and socio-economic capacity building.
