A quick-thinking octogenarian, lying injured in a ditch and ‘missed’ by searchers alerted to her disappearance, managed to save herself from a freezing night in the open by sending a video message via her phone to her grandson. The youngster – fortunately awake when the message came through at midnight – rushed to show it to Sintra firefighters who were then able to locate the missing woman and transport her to hospital.
Following allegations of rigging in the system of allocating judges, president of Lisbon’s Court of Appeal Orlando Nascimento has resigned with immediate effect.
A letter tendering his resignation was requested last week and reportedly received on Monday. Meantime, public prosecutors are deciding whether Judge Nascimento is to be added to the charge sheet of corruption investigation Operation Lex which has already cited his predecessor Luís Vaz Neves (click here).
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The municipality of Faro will begin on Sunday to charge a tourist tax in the amount of 1.5 euros per night, with the expectation of raising 500 thousand euros throughout 2020, a councillor from the municipality revealed to Lusa today.
A petition with roughly 6,000 signatures is calling for action to save the Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina Natural Park (PNSACV) from the uncontrolled advance of intensive agriculture is set to be discussed today in the Assembly of the Republic.
"The Algarve is one of the regions most susceptible to climate change - it is exposed to the risk of coastal erosion, drought, and fire", warned Prime-Minister António Costa this weekend at an inauguration during his visit to Quarteira.
Faro Hospital is prepared and can become a reference unit for coping with the Coronavirus (Covid-19) "as soon as necessary", Paulo Morgado, president of the Regional Health Administration (ARS) of the Algarve, has claimed.
The PCP parliamentary group have today questioned the Minister of the Sea, Ricardo Serrão Santos, over an industrial request to install a mussel culture establishment in marine waters in the open sea, just off the coast between Sagres and Vila do Bispo. This aquaculture establishment will be intended for the growth and fattening of mussels.
The town of Alvor has been named as one of 25 emerging world destinations to visit in 2020 by Trip Advisor, the international travel platform revealed this week. The town, located in the municipality of Portimão is the only Portuguese location to enter the top 25 emerging destinations for this year, which was outlined at an award ceremony titled the “Travelers Choice Awards for Destinations”, which were divided into two categories: Trends, on the destinations that had the most positive reviews, and Emerging, which included the destinations that travellers have expressed the most interest in visiting in their future travels.
