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.
Quarteira is set to serve a giant Easter folar this Saturday, 4th April, from 3.30pm, with the traditional cake stretching to an impressive 135 metres in length.
Former MPs Helena Roseta and António Mota Prego justified their decision to leave the parliamentary galleries today, 2nd April, at a session commemorating 50 years of the Portuguese Constitution, saying they felt insulted by the speech of André Ventura, accusing the leader of Chega of a lack of civility.
Two high-speed boats, “allegedly involved in drug trafficking”, were seized on Tuesday, March 31st, and seven people arrested “south of the Algarve”, the Portuguese National Maritime Authority (AMN) has announced.
The Education Minister responded today in Parliament to criticism from the Socialist Party (PS) over the possibility that world-renowned writer José Saramago may no longer be compulsory reading in the final year of the country's nationwide secondary school curriculum, rejecting any ideological bias on the Government’s part by arguing that the proposed alternative author “is also a militant of the Communist Party”.
Proceedings have formally begun to save a charming, but abandoned, former Lifeboat Station, located off the coast of the municipality of Olhão, as a property of national interest, following the publication on Monday, 30th March, of the official notice opening the process in the Diário da República, Portugal’s state gazette.
A British couple were arrested by the Public Security Police (PSP) at Faro Airport on Saturday, 28th March, following the execution of two European Arrest Warrants issued by the Cypriot judicial authorities, the Correio da Manhã has reported.
