Crack teams of Tax and Customs Authority operatives have been scouring the country's high streets to pin down tax evaders.
The May 25th purge was not aimed at offshore account holders, property owners illegally letting their luxury properties or millionaire market traders selling counterfeit goods, the target was 6,000 hairdressers to check whether or not they were issuing receipts.
Economist, personnel specialist and former mayor of Oporto, Rui Rio, has called for the cancellation of the sale of the Novo Banco to Lone Star, saying that the government can’t simply “evade its responsibility.”
A lack of transparency and ever-changing rules are cited by Rio as he criticises the proposed sale of Novo Banco in an opinion piece in Observador.
Portugal’s Food Bank against Hunger volunteers collected 1,848 tonnes of food last weekend at over 2,000 supermarkets.
In the Algarve, 125 tons of food were collected with spokesperson, Susana Guerreiro, saying that 120 institutions in the region will be distributing the food to 18,500 people and thanked all those who were kind and donated.
The three Algarve council areas that have the most ‘at risk’ residents who need food help, are Olhão, Faro and Loulé.
A shellfisherman wimbling around in the sea off Aljezur collecting goose barnacles ended up in a Lisbon hospital after injuring himself on rocks 1.5 kilometres from the shore.
A salvage operation was mounted on Sunday to rescue the 42-year-old from Pedra da Galé, a small outcrop in the sea off Aljezur.
Portimão council has transferred land to enable the government to build a new police station in a €5 million project.
The Judicial Police of Portimão will have a long-awaited new building. The land transfer is the first stage and the protocol was signed today, May 29th, in the presence of the Minister of Justice, Francisca Van Dunen.
Six Algarve villages are lined up for inclusion in the ‘Seven Wonders of Portugal’ competition.
Cachopo, Paderne, Bordeira, Estoi, Ferragudo and Alte are among the 49 pre-finalists of the 'Seven Wonders of Portugal - Villages' competition.
A reader wrote to algarvedailynews.com to express her opposition to the proposed 'Salgados - Ria Formosa Eco-Resort' project now owned by MillenniumBPC and being punted internationally by sales agency CBRE.
She writes to Dear Ed., "Thanks for being so pro-active regarding this issue of the Lagoa de Salgados and Praia Grande. it's given a lot of people the courage to join in and protest in various ways rather than allow those with money and power to do as they wish with impunity.
Some British Airways flights took off from Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Sunday after the company was brought to its knees by a computer systems failure on Saturday morning that has problems for the company in the UK and overseas.
A BA spokesman said the company now aims to operate most scheduled services due to leave from Heathrow and claims that Gatwick is pretty much back to normal.
