Portugal and Angola reinforced cooperation in the economy of the sea through a memorandum signed in Lisbon by the Minister of the Sea of ​​Portugal, Ana Paula Vitorino, and the Angolan Minister of Fisheries, Maria Antonieta Baptista, at the end of the forum "Entrepreneurs Portuguese and Angolans together for a sustainable cooperation of the Sea ".

 In a statement to the media, Ana Paula Vitorino stressed that the new agreement provides for "cooperation in all areas of the sea" such as fisheries, aquaculture and fish processing.

Money laundering through the real estate market is under further scrutiny and regulation with new rules from the government taking effect on June 26th.

The Institute of Public Markets for Real Estate and Construction (IMPIC) will have access to information from the Treasury for better control of the private purchase and sale of real estate.

Portugal’s nature party wants to see a sanctuary created in the Ria Formosa to save the dwindling seahorse population.

PAN - People-Animals-Nature - has presented outline legislation finally to classify seahorses as a protected species and to create a haven in the Ria Formosa lagoon area for their recovery.

Two men in their 80s have died and two were injured following an accident on Saturday night on the IC1, near Santana da Serra, Ourique.

The collision occurred at about 8:50pm when a vehicle, carrying the friends from near Santana da Serra, entered the IC1 from the EN393.

Last year, 178,691 properties were sold in Portugal, 16.6% more than in 2017, an average of 490 homes per day.

These sales totaled €24.1 billion, 24.4% higher than in the previous year and leading to a record tax take from the Municipal Tax on Real Estate Taxes (IMT) and Municipal Property Tax (IMI).

The government has opened a tender to hire 1,264 doctors in general and family medicine, public health and for the nation’s hospitals, in an effort to fill, "the largest number of vacancies ever."

The vacancies for newly-qualified doctors, published on Thursday in the Diário da República, totals 1,264 jobs, of which 398 for family doctors, 13 in the public health area and 853 in hospitals.

Docapesca has begun the refurbishment of the fish sorting and auction area at the fishing port of Olhão.

The spend is close to € 200,000 and is expected to take 120 days, as detailed in the public tender launched in December 2018.

In 2018, 520 animals were sterilised in the Portimão area by associations that the Council helped fund.

The municipality again is supporting two animal organisations which are running cats and dogs sterilisation programmes.