The number of Portugal’s households with an income of under €10,000 has soared to 33% in under 2 years.
The 2010 figures were bad enough with 2.28 million families earning less than €715 gross per month, taking a year to have 14 payment months, but in 2012 there were 3.04 million families struggling by with low incomes and ever rising domestic bills, topped by VAT increases.
Hundreds of well-to-do non-Europeans are said to have already applied for a Maltese passport.
The passport entitles the holder to full EU citizenship with the right to live and work in any EU nation. Additionally, Maltese citizens can enter the US and 160 other countries without a visa.
The author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ has settled a lawsuit against her local museum which was using her name but not compensating her.
Harper Lee, 87, filed the lawsuit against the county museum in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The museum had featured her name and the book’s title on merchandise it was selling.
Macario Correia has started his new job at the Algarve’s waste company Algar and announces the company goal of ‘zero waste.’
The controversial former Mayor of Faro wants to start an educational programme in the region’s schools and “in collaboration with every family, school and local authority, starting with the schools so that the children can educate their parents."
The price of coffee beans has risen by 50% in just the last month.
The spike in the price of Arabica beans comes after costs fell in November to their lowest price in four years.
A first for the Algarve Tourism Association as its staff attended the London International Dive Show held in London and reported a good level of interest in the Algarve as a diving destination.
The Algarve Tourism stand had an innovative image, "which explored in a very appealing way the region’s underwater world and its natural features."
The space was filled with graphics and staff handed out information about the Algarve and locations and chatted to divers about points of interest for scuba diving the Algarve.
In an order published today in the Official Gazette the Government has opened the door to funding for the Portugal Open tennis torunament as it now is classed as "an event of excellence" capable of augmenting "the country's image in the international sports world."
Emidio Guerreiro, Secretary of State for Sport and Youth who signed the order considers that the tennis tournament contributes “unequivocally to the recognition of Portuguese sport at an international level and to affirm the country as a preferred venue for major sporting events.”
The Chairman of Portugal’s Medical Association, José Manuel Silva, said today that "it is necessary that the Board of Directors of the Hospital de Faro has more respect and consideration for professionals" and it is also necessary to "confront the true problems" of the Hospital of the Algarve group.
José Manuel Silva was visiting Faro Hospital at the start of a tour of the Algarve’s medical facilities. He met Pedro Nunes, the embattled president of Board of the Hospitals of the Algarve, and had a "cordial chat."
