José Pontes Correia, a now former director of Portugal’s railway company, has been sacked for speaking up about passenger safety.
As the man in charge of railway carriages and engine units, Correia was well positioned to comment on the danger to the public of extending the life of certain carriage classes.
Next year, electricity bills for over a million customers, those still in the regulated market, will drop 3.5% following an Energy Services Regulatory Entity (ERSE) decision announced on Monday, December 17.
This is a swing to the positive, a revision of the ERSE October proposal, which had envisaged a 0.1% rise in tariffs.
The Terras do Infante Association of Municipalities, the group of three west coast Councils led by Aljezur’s disgraced former mayor, José Amarelhino, has made public its "most vehement repudiation" of the planned 2019 closures of the post offices in Sagres and Praia da Luz.
This decision, according to Vila do Bispo, Lagos and Aljezur’s mayors, 'goes against the interests of the populations concerned, given that they are services close to customers and are particularly vital to the aging population as well as to tourists and foreign residents.”
A painting by the C17th master, Josefa de Óbidos, has been bought by a collector at auction in Barcelona, potentially thwarting Óbidos Council’s plans to secure the canvas for public viewing.
Portugal’s Ministry of Culture did not buy the picture “because it would have to ask (Finance Minister) Centeno for permission,” said a Council spokesperson, adding that it had been informed too late to start this process.
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) is to Belmond, the company that owns the Reid's Palace Hotel in Madeira, among other properties.
The €2.8 billion deal is expected to be signed in the first half of 2019, subject to approval by Belmond’s shareholders and clearance from competition authorities.
A police operation early on Monday morning saw a swathe of arrests in the Algarve and Centre of the country of those suspected of being involved in the Tancos arms and ammunition theft in June 2017.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed today that eight civilians had been picked up in Operation Húbris II, to be added to two suspects already in detention.
The government has lashed out at the opposition CDS-PP party, accusing it of manipulating the public and lying to try to create a, "feeling of fear and insecurity" about the state of the country's roads, bridges and railways.
The government was shocked to find out that the opposition is launching a nationwide condemnation of the country’s infrastructure, pointing to "the government's choice of maximum tax burden and minimum public investment," according to the CDS-PP president, Assunção Cristas.
The INEM has confirmed that four people died in a helicopter crash in the Serra de Santa Justa near Porto.
"The National Medical Emergency Institute (INEM) announces that the emergency medical helicopter that has been missing was located at about 01:30 am, The aircraft in question was located in the Pias mountain range, in the municipality of Valongo. There are four confirmed dead," reads the INEM statement released shortly after 02:00 on Sunday morning.
