António Mira has been sentenced by the Court of Portimão to five years in prison for embezzlement and document forgery but the sentence was suspended.
Mira was sentenced to three years in prison for each of the seven counts of embezzlement and one year in prison for each of the four crimes of forging documents, all to run concurrently. (1)
A pair of lynx released into the wild as part of Portugal’s repopulation project for the threatened species have bred for the first time.
A young lynx, or 'kitten', has been photographed with its mother in the Guadiana Valley area. The news was announced by the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry which added that this is the first time for several decades that a pair successfully has bred.
EDP’s boss António Mexia says "It's not fair" that the ‘social tariff’ costs the electricity and gas supplier €40 million a year.
Complaining that the poorest in Portuguese society who are unable to afford EDP’s rates - among the highest in Europe - are costing his shareholders good money, Meixa made his complaint at a meeting in London.
Increasing numbers of asylum seekers in Sweden and Denmark are withdrawing their applicants and leaving.
Sweden received 160,000 refugees last year. The arrivals are facing waits of up to one year for the country’s migration agency to process the paperwork.
The Assistant Secretary of State to the Treasury, Ricardo Mourinho Félix, at last has had a formal platform to heap blame on the Bank of Portugal Governor, Carlos Costa, for the collapse of Banif and for its its bungled rescue which could cost the taxpayer up to €3 billion.
Ricardo Mourinho Félix reaffirmed his conviction that the Governor of the Bank of Portugal committed a serious error by not informing the government about the Banif negotiations he was involved in with the European Central Bank.
The Neanderthal cave found at the site of Portimão’s new water treatment plan is proving to be an exciting find with a new entrance discovered outside the building area allowing researchers access to a network of tunnels and spaces created by the scouring action of water.
Professor Nuno Bicho from the University of the Algarve is delighted that, under the direction of the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve, Águas do Algarve has offered to pay to install a gate to protect the recently discovered entrance so he and his team can work away carefully analysing artifacts in the cave where Neanderthal man lived between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago.
The Guadiana International Bridge linking Spain and the Algarve is at last to undergo repair and maintenance work later this year but the discovery that one of the steel cables holding up the bridge is broken has caused alarm.
Infraestrutura de Portugal says there is nothing to worry about but the local mayors are not best pleased that safety may be compromised, especially with the high traffic weight in the busy summer tourism season.
The European Central Bank will stop issuing or distributing the €500 banknote from 2018.
The decision was taken on the grounds that the high-denomination currency is far too helpful to criminals and terrorists.
