Faro Council’s finances have received a boost, mainly from an influx of property sales tax (IMT) receipts as real estate sales continue to boom in the regional capital.
The budget surplus from carried over from last year is around €9 million which the mayor is to use to build cuddly things like a new dogs home, long-overdue houses for displaced fishermen and more council houses.
Rain in the Algarve brought dust that turned to a sticky mud in many areas, especially in the east of the region.
The day started cloudy down south, remaining hazy all day, bringing only sporadic rainfall in most of the region.
Quarteira is to have its own lifeboat station, operational by the summer of 2020, according to Nuno Cortes Lopes, the Commander of the south coast.
In addition, a new Maritime Police station will be installed in the former 'Instituto Portuário e dos Transportes Marítimos' (IPTM) building.
The Lisbon-based pop star. Madonna, was refused permission to take a horse into a C19th palace for a music video shoot and has accused the Portuguese of being ungrateful.
Madonna, anyway due to leave Portugal’s Palacio Ramalhete for New York, has accused the Portuguese of being ungrateful over a row involving a horse.
According to the president of the Hi Fly group, a Portuguese charter airline headquartered in Lisbon, work began this month to clear land at Beja airport to build a €30 million hangar.
The group company, Mesa, already has started work to build the aircraft maintenance facility that aims to create 150 jobs over the next three years, chairman Paulo Mirpuri said.
Portugal’s Public Ministry has appealed against the decision of the Central Administrative Court of the South which overturned the suspension of the license for oil exploration off Aljezur as issued the Administrative Court of Loulé last August.
The final decision will now fall to the Supreme Administrative Court.
António Mexia and six other directors of EDP earn more than one million euros per year.
The president of the national electric company took home €2.2 million euros in 2018, made up from salary, performance related pay and bonuses. Mexia earned €100,000 less than in 2017.
The NOS mobile phone operator suffered system failures and service interruptions on Sunday afternoon, nationwide.
The company’s management said on Sunday that full service will be resumed by 9pm.
