Alcoutim council is delighted about plans for a huge solar farm plant in its municipality but dod nto know anything about it.
The Mayor of Alcoutim, Osvaldo Gonçalves, said today that he received the news with surprise and delight as he heard of the intention of a private consortium to build a photovoltaic plant on his territory.
The Júpiter Hotel, one of Praia da Rocha’s main tourist offerings, closed its doors to tourists on November 11th 2014.
The rather more encouraging news is that the hotel on the Avenida da Republica is undergoing a €2 million refit. The management plans that the refurbished hotel will be open for business by the end of March, 2015.
HM Revenue & Customs has launched a video for school children to stress the importance of paying taxes.
The plot revolves around characters which are tax evaders disguised as ghosts (the baddies) who are eventually caught by HMRC (the goodies) and sent to jail.
The Viceroy Hotel Group has announced its entry into Europe with the opening of Viceroy at Quinta da Ombria, Algarve, scheduled to open in 2017.
According to the Viceroy, after completion of the project the luxury hotel unit will offer travellers "a unique lifetime experience in a prime coastal (sic) location in one of the most alluring destinations in Europe."
Spain certainly appears to know how to foster national unity. The country’s public prosecutors are expected to charge the president of Catalonia for holding a vote on independence in defiance of a court injunction.
The region’s leader, Artur Mas, is likely to be charged with disobeying a court order and misusing government funds.
The EU’s new policy to deal with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean has come under fire.
Its Operation Triton is to support the Italian Navy’s Mare Nostrum programme which is winding down.
Fun and games at Moviflor, the furniture store that agreed to a Special Revitalisation Process in the Commercial Court of Lisbon in December 2013, and then continued to treat its staff like excess stuffing.
Wage arrears mounted despite court instructions to clear them. Not even the redundancy payments were paid as agreed under the special plan to help save the business.
The Algarve is to host a €220 million investment in solar energy, "the largest ever in Portugal" according to media reports and the rural council of Alcoutim is the chosen location.
The Portuguese Environment Agency has received an application for the licencing of the photovoltaic plant which will produce 200 megawatts from thousands of panels on an 800 hectare site.
