The management of the port of Sines and the Algarve has been displaying its wares at Cruise Shipping Miami, specifically to promote the Cruise Terminal of Portimão.
The event took place from 16 to 19 March and brought together more than 900 exhibitors representing 127 countries which have grasped the importance of this tourism sector, unlike Portugal.
The popularity of President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil has fallen dramatically just five months after she entered her second term.
More than two million people demonstrated recently and called for her impeachment. The protests took part in cities in all 27 states of Brazil, making it the largest political demonstration since military rule ended in 1985.
The General Secretary of the Socialist Party, António Costa, has commented that the Finance Minister might say that the country’s coffers are full, but the "Portuguese unfortunately have empty pockets.”
Finance Minister Maria Luís Albuquerque said on Wednesday that public debt "is indeed still very high, but today we have the comfort of knowing we have the full coffers."
Three masked men, at least one of them armed, robbed the watch shop 'Boutique dos Relógios' inside the Algarve Shopping centre in Guia yesterday evening.
The men entered the shop at around 19.30, one stayed near the door as look out and the other two forced staff to lie on the floor.
Europe’s largest budget airline, Ryanair, is to stay in Europe after all.
The company’s board had to admit that it is not considering flights to the US.
The accusations are flying in the VIP Taxpayers List scandal as Paulo Ralha, the taxpayers union boss, said today that of course there was a list and that it was drawn up by senior officials and had "political endorsement."
Paul Ralha added that the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paulo Nuncio, (pictured) is unable to continue in office as he knew about the list and is still denying its existence.
Ricardo Salgado today was heard for the second time by the parliamentary committee investigating the collapse of Banco Espirito Santo.
Stopping well short of any sort of an apology, Salgado ‘regretted’ what happened to customers and workers, and vowed to fight for his honor and that of his family, adding that he it's nothing to do with money.
The former secretary-general of the Ministry of Justice, Maria Antónia Anes is to remain under house arrest as her appeal to have her electronic bracelet removed and bail conditions relaxed has failed.
The Court of Appeal under Judge Francisco Caramelo today rejected her lawyer’s defense and Anes remains subject to the same conditions as before after she was arrested in November 2014 in the Golden Visa round up of bent state employees.
