In January this year, more than 164,000 unemployed people in Portugal received no State support, making it rather difficult to get by.
For those that did qualify, the average unemployment benefit was €486.
Despite a general warning from the National Maritime Authority not to swim in the sea (HERE), a corpse was found by tourists on Monday, at Meia Praia, Lagos, reports Faro's District Relief Operations Command.
The alert was received at 3:27 pm. A medical emergency team, Lagos bombeiros, the Maritime Authority were soon at the scene but the victim had been in the water for around two days.
The Transgenics Out Platform (Plataforma Transgénicos Fora) has warned the government of the high levels of glyphosate in 100% of urine samples collected last October.
The association again has called for a ban on the sale of herbicides that contain the suspect chemical compound.
Nearly half of Portugal’s population failed to visit a dentist in 2017. This is above the EU average of 45% but hardly an impressive result.
According to data now released by Eurostat, 34% of Portuguese go to the dentist once or twice a year but many simply don’t bother.
The number of fishermen registered in the Algarve recorded the sharpest reduction in the country between 2001 and 2017, a decrease of 56%, according to data released this week by PORDATA.
In 2017, there were 17,642 fishermen in Portugal, 25% less than in 2001 - a decrease that occurred in all regions of the country but the Algarve has been badly hit with a decrease of 56% to just 2,713 in 2017.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN LAGOS
13 March 2019, 18h30 – 19h30
Centro Cultural
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8600-586 Lagos
The 28% drop in profits and a 73% cut in the dividend pushed CTT’s shares to their year’s low point today.
Shares of the privatised company, led by Francisco de Lacerda, fell more than 7% in today’s trading, the largest drop since May 2018, when shares fell 10% in a day.
Ryanair has been fined €3 million for introducing a highly deceptive hand luggage policy last November that left customers baffled and competition authorities sharpening their pencils.
The significant fine over Ryanair’s chiselling scheme came from the Italian Competition Authority.
