A new bill from the Left Bloc, already submitted to parliament, foresees quotas for Alojamento Local housing for tourist rentals and wants to set a limit of 90 days a year
The intention of the Left Bloc is to limit the local rental of apartments and houses so as to mark a difference between this sort of tourism rental and other forms covered by other, existing rules.
Far from reacting with good sense, sensitivity and compassion in the case of the woman beaten with a nail-spiked club for having an affair, the President of the Supreme Court, António Henriques Gaspar, today warned that the public outcry against the suspended sentences given on appeal to her two aggressors, does not help her defence.
While referring directly to the case that has marked a part of Portugal’s judicial system as little more than a bigoted Star Chamber, Gaspar clearly warned the public to stay out of things that it does not understand.
As the government has decided that the Portuguese Air Force will be coordinating aerial fire fighting operations in the future, using military machines and overseeing private contracts for aircraft and helicopter assistance, the service will have to be provided with more helicopters – five more than those already on order.
The cost estimate for the additional hardware is €20.5 million and Air Force chiefs are dropping a note to this effect to the Minister of Defence ‘for his most kind consideration.’
Top brass at the National Civil Protection Authority have pointed out 'serious errors and omissions' in the report into the Pedrógão Grande fire, claiming it was impossible to predict its ‘extreme development.’
Civil protection chiefs have rejected criticism of their personnel as detailed in the report drawn up by the independent commission to analyse what happened in the Pedrógão Grande fire and have pointed out, what it calls, 'grave omissions, errors and contradictions.'
The British Foreign Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, is to visit Portugal tomorrow to discuss the future relationship between the two countries after the UK leaves the European Union, a withdrawal scheduled for sometime in 2019.
Johnson will meet with Portugal’s Foreign Minister, Augusto Ernesto dos Santos Silva, Economy Minister, Manuel de Herédia Caldeira Cabral and with Portuguese businessmen who are involved in bi-lateral trade with the UK.
A month later than initially planned, the MAR shopping centre has opened next to the IKEA store near Loulé.
This temple to retail includes energy and water saving measures and uses local, low-water plants in outdoor areas.
The Portuguese weather service (IPMA) has updated its temperature forecasts for the next few days and predicts 35°C in Santarém and Alcácer do Sal for Friday with an Algarve rise to 30ºC on Saturday.
"These weather conditions, coupled with extreme or severe drought and tinder dry forests, significantly increase the risk of forest fires starting and spreading, with a high number of Portugal’s council areas on the ‘high risk’ alert,” states the weather service. (here)
Vila Real de Santo António council is to start the second phase of the redevelopment work at Monte Gordo beach on November 15th.
The municipality wants to press ahead with its plan to renovate one of its main bathing zones with new buildings for its concession holders.
