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.'
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.
