The Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) is polling at 44% after it eschewed austerity policies to turn the country’s economy around following the financial crash. With the centre-right Portuguese Social Democratic party (PSD) trailing a long way back on 20%, it now has nearly enough votes to form an outright majority, a rare occurrence under proportional representation.
The marks left by the machines that tore up the fields of Quinta da Torre d´Aires, in Tavira, are clearly visible. But the well-preserved, and in some cases noble-built stone structures found just under a meter deep in an open survey near the Ria Formosa are more than enough to fuel the Balsa archaeology team’s desire for discovery. This project began on the 19th of August, and will continue until 2021 whilst experts look for what remains of the "mythical" Roman town of Balsa.
The Mayor of Silves has confirmed that the municipality will be investing in the rehabilitation of the city's Ponte Velha, which is of Roman origin. A project that should last 8 months with an estimated cost of 500 thousand euros.
A TAP plane engine suffered a technical problem, causing an explosion which prevented the aircraft from taking off at Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon.
The strike announced by National Hazardous Materials Drivers Union last month begins this weekend, Saturday 7th September. ANTRAM and the SNMMP have not reached an agreement on the definition of 'minimum services' for the upcoming strike, so it is now "up to the government to intervene" said the president of the SNMMP, Francisco São Bento.
The strike is set to take place between Saturday 7th and Sunday 22nd September, while dangerous goods drivers strike regarding pay for overtime, weekends and holidays.
A recent law that approves measures for the collection and treatment of tobacco waste, and introduces fines of between €25 and €250 those who throw cigarette ends onto the ground, was published on Tuesday this week.
The stem cell biology group of the University of the Algarve's Centre for Biomedical Research (CBMR), led by José Bragança, has recently published a scientific paper that may bring "important conclusions" about the prevention of the onset of congenital heart disease in the journal Cell Death & Disease.
Joana Gonçalves de Sá, professor and coordinator of a research group on “Data Science and Policy”, will receive 1.5 million euros from a EU fund to study the phenomenon of fake news and misinformation.
