A 65-year-old British tourist suffered severe head and neck trauma yesterday as a result of a being rolled over by a huge wave when swimming at Salema beach, Vila do Bispo.
According to the Maritime Authority, the alert was received at 4:55 pm. The victim was treated at the beach. He had been swimming when he was turned over by a wave and hit the sand with devastating force.
The Forest Fire Laboratory has released an image of the effects of the fires that plagued Portugal this summer.
The fire-damaged areas clearly are visible in the image (below) taken just after the October 15th fires were put out.
It will be no surprise for those who are sitting around waiting for their cases to be heard in court, that Portugal has the highest rate of congestion in civil proceedings in the European Union.
The ratio between the number of cases pending at the beginning of a year and the number of cases concluded in that year show that in 2015, the rate in Portugal was 214%, according to data compiled by Pordata Europe.
Judge Neto de Moura, whose judicial decisions have widely been criticised for devaluing and downplaying assaults on women because they committed adultery or were not visibly bruised, also did not consider an assault on a four year old child as 'serious.'
According to Correio da Manhã, in 2010, when Neto de Moura was operating at the Lisbon Court of Appeal, he considered as ‘excessive’ the four-year and six-month sentence imposed on a man who had assaulted his wife and his four-year-old daughter.
Thirty objects, some of which are at least 2,000 years old, have been lent by a Chinese museum to the Museu de Évora (Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo) in an unprecedented cultural agreement.
This is the first time the Museum of Guangzhou has lent anything to a Portuguese museum but authorisation was granted for a temporary export license for the priceless collection to leave China for Portugal, as long as it comes back again.
Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, and the European Commission are at the opposite end of the scale when it comes to next year’s sardine catch with the minister going for 14,000 tonnes and the EC’s advisory body opting for total sardine fishing ban.
On October 20, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) recommended the complete suspension of sardine fishing off Portugal and Spain for the 2018 season, causing widespread upset within the offshore fishing industry.
The European Parliament voted on Tuesday, 24th October, in support of phasing out the sale and use of glyphosate herbcides over the next five years and immediately banning the use of Roundup by domestic consumers.
"The European Parliament has correctly acknowledged the magnitude of glyphosate's risks," reports Nathan Donley at the Center (sic) for Biological Diversity, adding that "Now European regulators charged with protecting human health and the environment must follow the parliament's brave leadership and phase out the gross overuse of glyphosate."
With the exception of the Lagoa and Vila Real de Santo António council areas, the Algarve is at high, very high or maximum fire risk.
The classifications issued by the Portuguese weather service (IPMA) reports that the Loulé and São Brás de Alportel areas are at the 'red alert' maximum risk level.
