Regenerarte, an environmental protection association, has launched a crowdfunding campaign which addresses the issue of avocado plantations in the Algarve, namely some cases that began as early as 2014, at the hands of a family business headquartered in Loulé, criticizing the consequences throughout the region.
"Many of the thousands of people who are currently losing their jobs in the tourism sector are people who already have basic training, they are people who already have personal care experience, who are a fundamental and trained resource that can be easily converted to continue working with people, now in” a different sort of institution, stated prime-minister António Costa this Wednesday afternoon.
When the first shipment of vaccines against the novel coronavirus is sent out, if all clinical trials are successful, a batch bought as part of the European Union's order for 300 million vaccines from an AstraZeneca laboratory may be distributed to Member States by the end of the year.
A recent survey has shown that the Portuguese are among the Europeans who show the greatest desire to be vaccinated against Covid-19, with three out of four expressing this intention when a vaccine becomes available.
An illegal party with more than 200 people in attendance was stopped by the GNR of Loulé, in Almancil, in the Central Algarve, as the current laws and rules of social distancing and caps on gathering due to the COVID-19 pandemic were not being complied with. The party took place on Sunday evening.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has helped rescue two women who came into difficulty at an Algarve beach when their canoe capsized.
The epidemiological situation in the Algarve "is stabilized", after two weeks "with, practically, every day with a number of new single-digit daily cases", considered Ana Cristina Guerreiro, the Regional Health Delegate, at a press conference discussing the ongoing pandemic which took place today, the 14th, in Loulé.
'A group of ten prominent figures in Portugal’s fight against racism this week received an email from a far-right organization demanding that they leave the country within 48 hours. Among the recipients were Left Bloc party officials Mariana Mortágua and Beatriz Gomes Dias and non-registered MP Joacine Katar Moreira.
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- Angola's beleaguered billionaire dos Santos steps down from board position amidst Portuguese investigation
- Struggling live-event workers protest in Lisbon to save pandemic-hit sector
- Portuguese nationalists host ‘KKK-style’ march in front of anti-racism association HQ
- Portugal “remains a haven for a great amount of corruption”, says Luanda Leaks hacker Rui Pinto