Portuguese politicians are gearing up for the snap legislative election to be held on March 10th. Globally, it will be just one of the biggest number of national elections ever held in a single year.
Teachers in the 2nd and 3rd cycles and secondary education are working, on average, more than 50 hours per week, according to preliminary data from the survey carried out by Fenprof between September and October 2023 and which involved 4,471 teachers from across the country.
As part of the reform of the primary health care National Health Service (SNS), the Algarve now has three new Family Health Units (USF), in Portimão, Lagoa and Castro Marim.
In an initiative by Movijovem in partnership with CP – Comboios de Portugal, the new “ANDA Knowing Portugal” program promises to take young people who finished secondary education in 2023 and those who will complete it in 2024 and 2025 to travel around our country from north to south, for seven days, free of charge.
Discover the places in the Algarve where PSP radars will be in January. The Faro area is one of those that will also have police focus on speed control in January.
Portuguese newspaper, Diário de Notícias, has reported that flu has come back in force this winter, leaving people seriously ill and filling up hospital emergency departments.
A mass of polar air, originating in the Scandinavian region, will invade the north of the Iberian Peninsula later this week, cause further drops in temperature on Thursday.
The Algarve now has a state-of-the-art radar with dual polarization technology, offering significant improvement in weather surveillance and forecasting.
- Faro: Earthquake recorded 35 km south-southwest of the city
- Tourism: overnight stays hit a new historic high in Portugal
- Train strike means 65% of scheduled trains were suspended
- Faro Volunteer Firefighters welcome a new four-legged member of the crew
- Algarve: Desalination plant is not a magic fix to drought
- Tolls on the A22 go down
- UK Driving Licenses: New bilateral agreement comes in to force
- Algarve and Spain unite to combat the increasing amount of invasive seaweed