The building of the Algarve’s first crematorium is going ahead after Faro Council, Servilusa Agências Funerárias SA and FPC Construções Lda signed a contract last Friday, June 14th.
The cremation equipment, chapel and other facilities will be installed at the Cemitério Novo, Faro.
The Secretary of State for Forests and their management is fully aware of what he describes as the "hopelessness" in the sector that he controls.
Miguel Freitas has highlighted the various measures being taken to make Portugal’s rural areas safer but warns that this is a programme that will bear fruit only in the medium and long terms.
The badly decomposed body of a woman was discovered in a crevasse at Nossa Senhora beach in the Odemira municipality in the lower Alentejo.
The commander of the local Bombeiros, Luís Oliveira, said that the body was found "in a hole, inside a rock," and that it had been impossible to asses the age of the woman.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, said that Portugal has evolved "very significantly" in terms of its security and now is considered the third safest country in the world, according to the Global Peace Index.
"We were in 18th, six years ago. Today, we are in third place," said Cabrita who was at a ceremony to mark the delivery of 224 new vehicles, at a cost of €6 million, to the GNR, adding,
Taxpayers unwittingly have stumped up €487 million to take control of the flawed national emergency communication system, SIRESP.
The government has paid a final sum of €7 milion to Altice and Motorola to buy control over the flawed system.
The centrist CDS-PP political party wants to end the abuse of citizens by the tax authority which demands that people pay up now and argue later, whether tax is due or not.
The CDS-PP presented its proposal, part of its manifesto for the October 2019 general election, wishing to "end the abuses" of the Tax Authority.
Infraestruturas de Portugal has awarded Sacyr Somague the construction of a railway line 40 kilometres long.
This infrastructure project will form a strategic part of the Southern International Corridor, which will link the ports of the south of the country (Lisbon, Sines and Setúbal) with the rail network that connects with Spain through Badajoz.
The timeless delay in resurfacing and upgrading the Algarve’s EN125 road in the east of the region finally has driven those affected Councils to demand that the government does more than sit on its overpadded rear-end and commences the essential work.
Algarve Council chiefs are demanding that the government rescinds the contract with the concession holder, Rotas do Algarve Litoral, so that the State-owned body, Infraestruturas de Portugal, can fix the crumbling road.
