As the Algarve’s hoteliers gear up for a record-breaking New Year’s Eve across the Algarve, the region’s hotel workers’ trade union organised a high-profile demonstration in Vilamoura on Thursday.
The dismissal of three employees from the Crowne Plaza Hotel has been slammed by union leaders as "illegal," and part of a general trend of "increasing employer repression In recent months."
In a price hike designed to make the Algarve’s motorway drivers see red, the Via do Infante is to have the highest toll increase in the country.
With the current government, as the last, unprepared to listen to the sound economic arguments against having tolls at all on the region’s artery, the January 1st increases are 15 cents for Class 1 vehicles, and 20 cents for others.
The GNR has given due warning to motorists that between December 30th and next January 2nd, the nation’s motorists can expect an increase in the number of roadside inspection points and an increased number of mobile units.
Patrol and roadside inspections will focus on routes to and from locations associated with the New Year’s Eve festivities, where the GNR also will be in evidence to increase the safety of revellers, to prevent road accidents by removing drunk drivers from the nation’s roads.
Civil engineering contractors working in the Largo das Mouras Velhas in the centre of Faro have unearthed an ancient burial site.
Work in the carpark near the Lethes Theatre had to be suspended on Tuesday while the grim discovery was analyzed and catalogued by specialists.
The recapitalisation of Caixa Geral de Depósitos now will take place in 2017 to keep the effects of the capital increase from showing up in this year’s national accounts.
The postponement already has been authorised by the European Central Bank, with the first part of the recapitalisation planned for this year to take place in the first week of 2017.
Portugal’s ‘National Entity for the Fuel Market’, or ENMC formally has proposed to the Government that the deposit lodged by the Partex-Repsol oil exploration consortium should be forfeit due to the failure of the companies to comply with their work plan as detailed in the contract.
The oil exploration contracts, which the last government signed with the Repsol-Partex consortium, stated that the first offshore well in the Algarve exploration area would be drilled in 2016.
Ecology and nature association, Quercus, has highlighted a government statement confirming that showing that Portugal is the only country in the EU that has lost forest area in each of the last 15 years.
Quercus refers to a statement from the Minister of Agriculture, Luís Capoulas dos Santos, saying that Portugal has lost about 150,000 hectares in the last 15 years, but Quercus claims other international organisations report Portugal's losses as greater.
Christmas has been a boom time for many retailers with an extra €380 million being spent in the run-up to Santa's Big Day, than in 2015.
From November 28th to December 25th, withdrawals and purchases logged by the ATM machine network shows that over €5.6 billion left shoppers’ bank accounts.
