Carlos Barbosa, the president of the Automobile Club of Portugal (ACP) said today that the state has lost interest in road death prevention, pointing out that there is currently more concern about fires than about those who die on Portugal’s roads.
Barranco das Canas beach, also known as Praia do Alemão, in Portimão banned any form of swimming today due to the detection of fecal bacteria in a water sample that was analyzed by the Portuguese Environment Agency.
In light of recent news regarding the possible closure of the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Service at the Algarve University Hospital Center (CHUA) as of September, many people are feeling a strong sense "natural dismay and social alarm", says the Algarve MP.
The Ukrainian couple who left their three-year-old child alone for 14 hours at home in their Lisbon accommodation have now been legally forbidden from contacting their child.
The natural phenomenon has caused strangeness and concern among beachgoers. However, there are no health risks, says an expert, and currently the situation is "more or less defused".
Lucas Leote, 19, was "one of the most promising musicians" of the Paderne Philharmonic Band, a village in the municipality of Albufeira where he lived, "a wonderful son and friend of his peers". He was shot dead by mistake at the door of Lick nightclub in Vilamoura in the early hours of Friday last week.
The girl was found crying on the balcony, resulting in PSP detaining the parents, a couple in their late twenties, for child neglect or possible abandonment, after leaving their 3-year-old daughter alone for 14 hours in a dwelling in the parish of Estrela, in Lisbon.
A 19-year-old Portuguese boy died this weekend at about 10:15 am on Saturday morning at the Portimão Municipal Aerodrome in Alvor, following a "possible technical failure in equipment" during a parachute jump, announced the District Command for Relief Operations (CDOS) in Faro.
