Loulé GNR has arrested a 43-year-old man implicated in the theft of items from a local property.
"The GNR carried out immediate investigations to identify and locate the suspect who was in his home. He was arrested and all of the stolen objects were found, as well as others items from other thefts."
The EN125 road renovation work, western section, has never really been completed so Lagoa Council, keen to see two of its city centre roundabouts tidied up, decided to complete the work itself.
The national roads company, Infrastruturas de Portugal, has left all manner of smaller jobs to be completed by its chosen contractors despite the government claim that the EN125 western section road upgrade is "to all intents and purposes, complete," while admitting that some smaller jobs remain to be done.
Novo Banco, which already has taken possession of Herdade do Pinheirinho Beach and Golf Resort, aims to sell off the stalled real estate and tourism enterprise located on the Alentejo coast in Melides, Grândola.
Granted a Potential National Interest classification, the project’s promoter is insolvent and the assets ended up with Novo Banco which was owed €140 million of the estate’s €204 million debt pile.
A huge shipment of cocaine has been intercepted off the Azores by the Portuguese Police with the help of the Air Force which tracked the catamaran without being seen.
The drugs boat was taken to the marina in the town of Horta, on the island of Faial, where it was searched and the concealed drugs were found.
One of the Algarve’s anti-oil groups, MALP, has published the content of a letter received from the Prime Minister, António Costa, in response to the demands that the Minister for the Environment and the President of the Portuguese Environment Agency both should resign.
The suggestion that employment should be sought elsewhere for these two pro-oil protagonists came after the Galp-ENI Aljezur test well was allowed to circumvent the neccessitity of providing an Environmental Impact Assessment.
Portugal’s Left Bloc parliamentary party has filed an official complaint against the Irish airline, Ryanair, whose management has refused to send a Director to answer MPs’ questions.
The president of the Left Bloc’s parliamentary group, Pedro Filipe Soares, said, "It is a protest about the way Ryanair treated the house of democracy in Portugal."
The closure of Media Capital’s @iol.pt email service is scheduled for November this year as the company decides to focus on its content provision and shut down peripheral services.
After 18 years, the official date for emails ending in @iol.pt is November 30th.
Average occupancy per room in Algarve hotels hit 95% in August, 0.5% higher than August last year.
The hoteliers’ association of the Algarve, AHETA, added that income had risen 1%.
