Ryanair made a quarterly loss of €19.6 million, to December 2018, partially explained by downward pressure on ticket prices due to strong competition in the European market.
To the delight of unions, the current chief executive, Michael O'Leary, is leaving day-to-day management and will be heading a new group structure as its CEO.
Unemployed Venezuelans living in Madeira have risen to the challenge presented to them by the AP Hotels & Resorts Group and are to join the workforce in the Group’s Algarve hotels.
According to a note from Employment Training Institute in the Algarve, the Venezuelan group arrived on the mainland last week and its members already are on a training programme aimed at strengthening their Portuguese language skills.
Valdemar Alves, the mayor of Pedrógão Grande has been made an official defendant in the case relating to the deadly fires of June 17th, 2017, as he was responsible for civil protection and ensuing scrubland and trees were cleared.
In September 2018, the Prosecutor's Office in Leiria listed twelve defendants subsequent to the Pedrógão Grande fire.
A young man has been arrested for the EN125 hit and run incident last Friday, that resulted in a young woman being put into an induced coma at Faro Hospital.
Diana Valério, 21, suffered life-threatening injuries on the EN125 at Bias do Norte, Olhão after she was struck by a vehicle and thrown into a drainage ditch. She had been walking along the road to get a lift to work at Faro Airport on Friday, February 1st.
A turbine at a wind farm in the western Algarve caught fire on Saturday, showering the countryside with red hot material.
The wind turbine at Espinhaço de Cão, in the Aljezur area, is said to be well past its useful life and local fire chiefs have complained of the security of these machines and the threat they cause to the surrounding countryside.
Riding on the wave of interest in the region’s food, the first Congress of Gastronomy of the Algarve is being launched in Faro this March.
The three day event is a blend the latest in food innovation, plenty of tastings and debates on food, sustainability and the future of gastronomy in the region.
A new government service portal, ‘Simplifica,’ has been designed and launched to create a single point of contact for several public services, including citizenship, health and social security, culture and leisure, agriculture and the environment.
The new service allows citizens in Madeira to request documents, organise licences including driving licence renewal, and pay for goods and services via ATM, MBWay or credit card 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Portugal’s hapless taxpayers already have been forced to stump up €18 billion to help save the nation’s banks and there’s more pain to come.
Most of the money already has been lost as the State saw fit to nationalise, sell off or liquidate banks at vast losses in the investment.'
