A disturbing number of cases of elderly Faro area residents living alone in poor conditions with insufficient food, many abandoned by their family, has been identified in the past 18 months
The Senior Support Office for the Faro council area, Paula Paiva, said the service of the Office of Support to the Elderly in Faro has managed to make a very positive contribution to many lives.
The Portuguese are booking holidays at the last minute and are heading en masse to Albufeira, Portimão, Vilamoura and Lisbon.
The Spanish, British and French are the top three foreign groups looking to holiday in Portugal this summer.
Registration ends at midnight tonight with over 150,000 gas and electricity customers already signed up in DECO‘s second auction.
BY presenting energy companies with 150,000 potential new customers, DECO will be able to negotiate better price deals with the various deregulated energy supply companies, a tactic that has worked before but caused some adverse comments as it was found that DECO also negotiated a commission for itself, a deal it was keen to hide from its customers.
Portugal’s Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, today paid tribute to Portuguese soldiers killed in France in WWI.
The Portuguese prime minister saw locations where Portuguese soldiers had fought and then visited the cemetery where many who died in the 1918 Battle of La Lys (Batalha de La Lys) later were buried.
Alexandre Soares dos Santos, the former chairman of the board of Jerónimo Martins, admitted this week that the company headquarters is off to Geneva, mainly due to the lack of response from Portugal’s banks.
The respected business leader that Portuguese banks do not give the answers that businesses need and he criticised the way the government has handled the economic crisis.
The population of the UK reached 64.1 million last year, in a pace which has made it the fastest growing in Europe.
For the last decade, Britain has been growing twice as fast as the rest of Europe, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
British passports have been named among the world’s most powerful, giving holders access without visas to the greatest number of the world’s nations.
Passport holders from Finland and Sweden, along with the UK, are able to enter 173 countries without obtaining a visa or by getting one on arrival, according to research carried out by movehub.com, a website devoted to people moving around the globe.
More than 360,000 Germans were conned into buying online lottery cards for a draw that does not exist.
The racket was being operated out of Greece.
