An 18-year-old girl who was aboard a Swedish training ship some 52 kilometers south of Portimão needing urgent medical attention because of "severe abdominal pain" was rescued by the National Maritime Authority’s lifeguards on Saturday.
PSD MP Cristóvão Norte has said that “the Algarve must be imposed as a national priority in the National Health Service”, following the announcement that the Algarve University Hospital Centre was the institution registered as having the largest increase in the hiring of locum doctors in 2018.
The President of the Republic said today that he was not sure that European Union bankers had learned "their lessons" from the financial crisis, arguing that European instruments for economic growth should take "citizens into account".
On October 8th, the European Commission published the second edition of the Observatory on Cultural and Creative Cities report, with an extensive sample of 190 cities scattered throughout 30 countries.
Thousands of pounds have been donated to the children of a British couple who drowned in Alentejo, with friends paying tribute to the "beautiful souls" who radiated "loving energy".
When the election night’s coverage came to a close in the early hours of Monday morning, veteran news anchor José Rodrigues dos Santos wished viewers good night from “a country that looks very different and yet somewhat still the same”.
Twelve people were seriously injured following the spillage of 50 litters of sodium hypochlorite (chlorine) in the early afternoon of Thursday the 10th of October at the Falésia-Mar hotel in Albufeira.
The government today announced a total of €101 million of EU funds had been tendered, of which €4 million is directed to the Algarve with the aim of increasing energy efficiency.
