Pictures and records of those former residents of Silves municipality who fought for the Allies during World War I, (which for Portugal ran from 1916 to 1918) are being recognised in an exhibition in the old casino in Armação de Pêra.
Men from the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP) are noted in, ‘The Combatants of the Municipality of Silves in World War I.’
A total saving of €1.9 billion was presented on Tuesday by the president of the IGCP, the Agência de Gestão da Tesouraria e da Dívida Pública which manages Portugal’s national debt and bond issues.
Cristina Casalinho informed Parliament that they next step is to pay off other loans early.
A dredger that had sunk near the Faro-Olhão entrance to the Ria Formosa lagoon was removed over the weekend.
The ‘Camião’ sunk on June 5th and had been lying 30 metres below the waves ever since.
Seven people have been charged in relation to the death of two people, one an eight-year-old girl, when a light aircraft landed on the beach at Costa da Caparica, on the western coast of the district of Setúbal.
The fatal accident on August 2, 2017, was the result in an engine fault. Instead of landing in the sea, the pilot brough the aircraft down on the beach, with devastating effect.
A Canadian has been hospitalised after falling 20 metres off a cliff at a remote beach in the Lagoa area.
The man fell at Afurada beach, a beach without access by land, so was rescued by the lifeboat team from Ferragudo and aided by lifeguards from a nerarby beach.
Odemira Council is marking the 30th anniversary of a maritme accident that covered Praia do Almograve with crude oil.
Celebrations are in place to mark the efforts made by individuals and official bodies that restored this area of the southwest coast after the tragic accident in which the oil tanker ‘Marão Diários’ leaked crude oil.
A long-running investigation into the Moto GP 2012 event at the Estoril Autodromo has revealed a black hole in the accounts where €2.6 million should be.
Sintra's Department of Criminal Investigation has discovered that just over €2.6 million in subsidies simply has vanished from the 2010 and 2011 accounts.
A company based in the United Arab Emirates, Exchange Minerals Ltd, has made a formal request to mine on Portuguese soil.
The request was made to excavate for minerals such as gold, copper, silver, and zinc, across a total area of four hundred and ten square kilometres. The Left Bloc (BE) party has already come forward against the prospect of such development, basing such opposition mainly on environmental grounds.
