A German tourist, about 50 years old, was rescued from the sea off Bordeira beach in Aljezur but died a few hours after being admitted to Lagos hospital.
According to the captain of the Port of Lagos, Conceição Duarte, the man was rescued from the sea after an alert had been received at 1:30 pm by his family.
Duarte Lima has been jailed and, last Friday, started his six-year sentence for fraud in the Homeland case when he relieved BPN of €17.8 million.
Discounting the time spent in pre-trial detention, Lima will serve three and a half years in prison but could be out on parole in as little as six months.
EDP’s shareholders have blocked a €9 billion bid by China Three Gorges for control of the energy supplier.
US investor Elliott and other shareholders rejected the proposed scrapping of a 25% voting right limit, a condition of China Three Gorges’s (CGT) takeover attempt.
A man has been hit by a train on the Algarve line near Meia Praia, Lagos, in what has been suspected as a suicide.
The alert was given at 15:39 on Thursday afternoon and the Portimão to Lagos line was shut down while an investigation was started.
The Minister of Justice braved the Algarve on Tuesday to inaugurate a new Commercial Court in Lagoa, paid for by the Council’s ratepayers in an attempt at least to to get somnething moving in the region's stalled justice system.
The Minister in charge, Francisca van Dunen, visited the converted school building which soon will function as a Court and noted that it wiill start operating in September, to tie in to something called the ‘judicial calendar.’
Vila Real de Santo António Council has been playing fast and loose with money from the 'Programme for Support to the Local Economy' and is accused of “ruinous management” by simply hiding €5.7 million of associated debts.
According to the CDU coalition party, which has a councillor on the VRSA Council executive and is well place to know the position, the government loan that the Council took on in 2014 in order to ease the interest burden from short-term debts, "was not amortized according to the commitments, revenue objectives and other contractual clauses."
It has suited politicians throughout the decades to declare Portugal's 1974 revolution 'bloodless' with happy soldiers walking around with carnations stuck in their rifle barrels and a general feeling or relief and bonhomie across the land.
Freedom Day, Revolution Day or simply, Carnation Day, the 25th of April is a national holiday commemorating both the 1974 military coup and the first free elections on that date in 1975.
Peter Booker, the President of the Algarve History Association, writes about at the lead-up to the events in 1974 that changed Portugal from an unhappy, tense place under the Estado Novo regime, even after the death of the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, into a fledgling democracy:
