A military airplane carrying a group of mostly Portuguese nationals who were stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, touched down in Lisbon late on Sunday.
“Protect the barrier islands, without which Ria Formosa would not be what it is today" - this is the main objective of the new LIFE project to be presented this Tuesday, February 4th, at the Environmental Education Centre, in Olhão.
Hospitals left with minimal services and schools closed. Public service employees are on strike this Friday, January 31st, and the Algarve is feeling “a strong adhesion” to this stoppage.
New confusion is about to be thrown into the already complicated list of do’s and don’ts for the owners of cats, dogs… and ferrets.
With focus today on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, little is being mentioned about a summit in Beja tomorrow bringing together the “Friends of Cohesion” countries” which are desperate to fight their corners.
A judge at Portimão Court has acquitted former Portimão vice-mayor Luís Carito and nine other defendants of all the crimes they were accused of, claiming that none of their charges could be proven.
The SEF’s Asylum and Refugees Office have declined the admissibility of the request for international protection of the eight Moroccan immigrants who landed on the Algarve’s shores back in December. Despite this, the authority has agreed to consider the asylum application of the 11 who arrived illegally on Tuesday in a nearly identical fashion.
The Mayor of Olhão said today that the Portuguese authorities should not give refugee and international protection status to illegal immigrants from Morocco, such as the 11 who were intercepted on a small vessel yesterday off the coast near to Ria Formosa.
