The President of the Republic, António José Seguro, said on Friday, 10th April, that he is “very closely monitoring” Portugal’s housing crisis, warning that wages are no longer sufficient to cover what he described as “sky-high rents” or the cost of buying a home.
Portugal is “relatively protected from an energy supply crisis”, Environment and Energy Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho said this week, responding to warnings from the International Monetary Fund about the economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle East.
A dispute between a landlord and tenant is believed to be at the centre of a suspected murder–suicide in Marinha Grande, Leiria district, where both men were found dead in the early hours of Friday, 10th April.
Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service has charged a 49-year-old surf instructor with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a lifeguard near Praia da Falésia, in Albufeira, last October, the Faro District Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday, April 8th.
Either Portugal’s population continues drifting towards the coast, settling around Porto, Lisbon, Aveiro and other urban centres, effectively abandoning the country’s interior, or the nation must openly overhaul its forest policy to reduce the number of wildfires and the scale of land burned, opines Nuno de Santos Loureiro, a university professor and specialist in Geographic Information Systems, whose research has long focused on land management and wildfire monitoring.
The leaders of Portugal’s General Workers’ Union (UGT) on Thursday, 9th April, rejected the government’s current proposal to revise labour legislation and called for negotiations to continue.
Louise Leakey, the internationally renowned palaeoanthropologist, will be the guest speaker at a seminar titled “Six Decades of Palaeoanthropological Exploration in the Turkana Basin”, organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve on 22nd April.
The Judicial Police (PJ) have found the body of a Vale de Lobo restauranteur missing since March in Loulé today, 2nd April, with strong indications of a violent death, and a suspect already remanded in custody.
