The mayor of Portimão has said today that she respects the advice given out by the Data Protection Commission (CNPD) to go forward with the city's video surveillance project, but she defends that in 2020 “one cannot invest in outdated technologies.”
In the hills of northern Portugal close to the border with Spain, the remote village of Covas do Barroso is in the middle of what the media have referred to as “lithium fever” — a conflict between two differing visions of how to protect the environment.
Following news from the last few months of last year revealing that schools were experiencing great troubles in finding new teachers, we can report that students from schools in the Algarve and Greater Lisbon continue without having all necessary teachers at the start of the second term, which began this week for primary and secondary education.
PAN, the People-Animals-Nature party, has this week stated that the "attitude" of António Pina, mayor of Olhão, "has once again confirmed that not all topics are to be debated in public and, once again, the animal welfare cause has been pushed to the background".
The New Year is off to a bad start for some Ryanair employees. 75 crew members will be fired this Wednesday, January 8th, from the Ryanair air base at Faro airport. This had led to a complaint being made by the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC).
An easy lifestyle, low cost of living, and friendly agreeable people are among the reasons many Thais have migrated to Portugal, choosing to live and work in the clement Algarve.
Faro Council have announced that they are finally constructing a new kennel for stray and abandoned animals. The announcement was made public after the council approved the launch of a tender for the building of an “Official Collection Centre for Animals” (Centro de Recolha Oficial Animals.)
Last month it was reported that yet again Portugal had the lowest annual rate of inflation in the euro zone, at 0.4%. The average rate for the zone as a whole increased to 1.3% from 1.0% the month prior (November), according to a flash estimate released by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office.
