Portugal’s number of infant mortalities is back where it stood in 2016. For under one year olds, 60 more died in 2018 than in the previous year, taking the figures back to those witnessed in 2016.
Considering the data, “troubling," the head of the Order of Physicians demanded that the Directorate General of Health analyses the causes of the deaths.
“Peak Tourism” has already set in. Brits account for 22% of tourists in Spain. Now add Brexit, writes Don Quijones at Wolf Street
In a delectable irony, two of the biggest corporate victims of a disorderly Brexit could turn out to be Spain’s flagship carrier Iberia and low-cost airline Vueling. Both companies are majority owned by British Airways’ parent company International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), which is UK-based. And current EU rules require European carriers to be both majority-owned and operated in the bloc.
Portugal’s land-based casino sector recorded a growth in 2018, recently released revenue stats show, despite intensifying competition from online gambling and lottery products, writes Casino News Daily.
The country’s land-based casinos generated overall revenue of €318 million last year, a figure representing a 3.1% increase from 2017. Growing demand for slot machine games at the facilities drove the growth in the land-based casino space, it was reported. Portugal’s slot machine revenue totaled €263.9 million in 2018, up 3.4% from the previous year.
Portugal’s Minister for the Environment and Energy Transition has been saying all the right things at a conference in Madrid, insisting that Portugal will be carbon neutral by 2050.
João Pedro Matos Fernandes said that the country’s emphasis will be on solar power.
The wine industry takes the lead in mitigating climate change: James Mayor talks to Adrian Bridge, CEO of Taylor`s Port, about the Climate Change Leadership Conference
The ancient city of Porto is home to an important new initiative to mitigate the effects of climate change. The Porto Protocol was launched in July 2018, at a summit with Barack Obama as keynote speaker, establishing an innovative platform for the wine industry to share environmental best practices.
The president of the Libertas Group, the comopany that owns 100 hectares in the Várzea de Quarteira area, next to Praia dos Tomates, Albufeira, admits that the CCDR-A’s opinion was that the development that was planned there, could not go ahead.
The Sunset Albufeira Sport & Health Resort already had been designed and submitted, but the 1,004 bed proposal was rejected by the Algarve Commission for Regional Coordination and Development due to serious concerns as to the probable environmental impact.
Influenza in Portugal remains an epidemic but was said to be ‘stable’ in the second week of the year, with an incidence rate of 48.8 per 100,000 citizens.
Portugal and England have been the European countries with the highest percentage of cases since the beginning of the year. Data collected from 'Flu News Europe, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organisation, show moderate outbreaks in Ireland, the Netherlands, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Continuing a long tradition of announcing "a new rail link to Faro airport," the government has done it again, stating that the work will be part of its National Investment Plan 2030, with the civil engineering work taking place between 2021 and 2026.
Adept at announcing work that never starts, the proviso used the government is the old ‘environmental study’ chestnut, a study that it appears not to have commissioned.
