An inspection carried out at Lisbon’s exotic animal found that many exhibitors were displaying animals whose sale is illegal.
Conditions at the exotic animal exhibition had been denounced by PAN's MP, André Silva, who asked for an urgent inspection at the events that began on Friday and ended on Sunday.
A highly embarrassing row is developing between the Ministry of Internal Administration and the nation’s League of Firefighters over meal allowances and inflated expense claims that have been submitted by fire fighting forces.
In 2018, 57 financial audits were carried out at various of the country’s fire brigade units and in 19 of them, irregularities were detected which led to, "situations of replacement or regularisation of funds transferred by the National Civil Protection Authority."
Of the ten most expensive property areas in the country, the Algarve represents five of them.
Lisbon is the most expensive place in Portugal in which to buy a house, with Cascais not far behind at €2,167, but the Algarve council areas of Loulé, Lagos, Albufeira, Tavira and Lagoa dominate the top ten.
The Secretary of State for Forestry and Rural Development has declared war on the Asian hornet and published an order in Diário da República on Friday to fund municipalities for the destruction of nests.
A national campaign to destroy vespa velutina will benefit farmers between €25 and €100 for each nest destroyed.
A young woman was found unconscious in a ditch by the EN125 on Friday Feb 1st, after being hit by a vehicle and left for dead.
The 21-year-old, Diana Valério, now lies in Faro hospital in an induced coma.
Leighanne Rumney, 22, from the North East of England, was working as a waitress at The Hot Shot Bar in Albufeira when she claims she was abducted and attacked in a 'shaming ritual'
Rumney said she was stripped and had her hair cut off by a gang of 'gypsies' after wrongly being accused of having an affair with a married man.
Brussels has agreed to allow British passport holders visa-free travel to member states, even in the event of a ‘hard Brexit.’
Short visits to EU member states of up to 90-days, in any 180-day period, will be allowed after Brexit, on 29 March.
The prime minister argued this afternoon that the nurses "surgical" strike is "absolutely illegal," and gave a few reasons why he thought that way, including the fact that the Order of Nurses was involved.
António Costa was supporting his Ministry of Health in trying to end the nurses' strike by judicial means. Speaking to reporters, the prime minister said the strike is in violation of the rights of the sick.
