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Algarve employment - plenty of jobs but few workers

tivoliThe unemployment rate has fallen to the point where companies are having difficulty in finding staff for the burgeoning Algarve tourism industry.
 
With the season stretching either side of the peak summer period, many companies are recruiting staff from other countries, notably from Spain where unemployment remains high.

Portuguese marijuana to supply European market

 
marijuanaThe Canadian cannabis producer, Tilray, successfully has raised C$60 million from a group of global institutional investors.
 
The new finance will enable the company to press ahead with its production facility in Portugal and expand its distribution in Europe and North America - in those countries where medical cannabis is legal.

Hospital Particular commissions 'wellness' hotel in Alvor

liverThe Hospital Particular do Algarve group, the private hospital operator with services in Alvor, Gambelas and Portimão, is entering the accommodation market by building a luxury health and wellness hotel.
 
In addition to the 70 rooms, the hotel will have medical facilities and is to be run in partnership with Longevity Wellness Worldwide whose last involvement in the region was at the Longevity Wellness Resort in Monchique, now the Macdonald Monchique Resort & Spa

Lisbon parish pays €31,000 to wife of Miguel Relvas

newspapersA company owned by the wife of the former minister, Miguel Relvas, was contracted by a Lisbon parish council to supply communication, media training and press advice.
 
Strategy, Lda, whose majority stakeholder is Marta Sousa Relvas, was hired in April 2015 for €31,686, one month after the business was created. 

Alentejo ranks lowest for cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy use

cannabisConsumption of cannabis in Portugal has increased over the last five years, with more tokers and more people indulging daily, according to the Drugs and Drug Addiction 2016 report, released today.
 
The report notes increasing consumption, between 2012 and 2016/7, in women and in the 25-34 and 35-44 age groups.

TAP's Neeleman lines up bid for Azores Airlines

neelemanBoth TAP and Jet Blue Airways are studying the documentation relating to the forthcoming sale of 49% of Azores Airlines.
 
According to the islands' press, the share sale prospectus was applied for by both companies.

€5 million Vilamoura yacht scam - woman arrested

vilamouraPolice have arrested a woman suspected of masterminding a €5 million fraud involving the sale of yachts that she did not own.
 
Four luxury yachts were sold to unsuspecting buyers for a total of €5 million and the woman is suspected of "qualified fraud, abuse of trust, forgery of documents and money laundering,’ as she did not own the vessels nor did she have the right to sell them. 

Ria Formosa islanders pushed out 'to make way for tourist developments'

riaformosaThe Portuguese Communist Party’s Algarve divisional office stated today that the recent demolition notices sent to 22 Ria Formosa islanders has nothing at all to do with, ‘defending the environment.’

The new administrative seizures, planned by Polis Litoral Ria Formosa as precursors to the demolition of yet more houses in the settlements of Farol and Hangars, "has as its ultimate objective, in the name of defending environmental values, to gradually expel the local communities from the Ria Formosa islands, to deliver this valuable territory to the interests of economic groups, as indeed happens along much of the Algarve’s coast."