Portugal’s government has approved its 2018-2027 plan to strengthen its electricity distribution grid to cater for a significant increase in renewable energy supply.
João Matos Fernandes, Portugal’s environment minister has announced a solar production auction to take place in the summer when 1.75 GW of capacity will be up for grabs as part of the government’s energy transition programme.
He’s been dodging the sentence for years, but time finally appears to be up for Manuel Godinho, the ‘Scrap Metal King of Ovar’ and key player in the Face Oculta investigation that is at last seeing ‘all those condemned’ filing into the country’s jails.
Aveiro court has reportedly issued a warrant for Godinho’s arrest, with the order that he must pay the State €350,000 within the next 10 days.
It’s a brave new plan to create ‘affordable accommodation’ for the nation’s students increasingly squeezed out of the rentals market due to Portugal’s tourist ‘boom’.
An old army barracks, a palace, a convent, former youth hostels and even the old headquarters of the education ministry are among State-owned buildings to be transformed over the next 10 years to create a new pool of student accommodation.
ASPP, the ‘largest professional police syndicate’ representing 10,000 agents throughout the country is calling on its ‘rank and file’ to limit actions in March to ‘advisory intervention’.
The bottom line being: ‘don’t pass fines’.
Imports into Portugal of used vehicles have more than tripled since the Troika arrived, according to the Automobile Association of Portugal.
Lower prices, coupled with tax advantages, explain the growth of this market that has seen imports of used vehicles increased 16.7% in 2018 to 77,241 units.
In January this year, more than 164,000 unemployed people in Portugal received no State support, making it rather difficult to get by.
For those that did qualify, the average unemployment benefit was €486.
Despite a general warning from the National Maritime Authority not to swim in the sea (HERE), a corpse was found by tourists on Monday, at Meia Praia, Lagos, reports Faro's District Relief Operations Command.
The alert was received at 3:27 pm. A medical emergency team, Lagos bombeiros, the Maritime Authority were soon at the scene but the victim had been in the water for around two days.
The Transgenics Out Platform (Plataforma Transgénicos Fora) has warned the government of the high levels of glyphosate in 100% of urine samples collected last October.
The association again has called for a ban on the sale of herbicides that contain the suspect chemical compound.
