Police today raided the headquarters of the General Inspectorate of Finance, the Ministry of Defence and the Red Cross, looking for evidence of corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power.
The National Anti-Corruption Unit of the Judicial Police sent in over 50 inspectors, accompanied by Public Prosecutors.
The Algarve’s 17 firefighting corporations have decided to ignore an order from their national league and will continue to report their call-outs to the National Civil Protection Authority.
The national Portuguese Firemen's League, led by Jaime Marta Soares, announced on Saturday that the country's firefighters no longer will be reporting what they are up to, to their Disaster Relief Operations Commanders at the Civil Protection Authority, in protest at rule changes made by the Government.
The Via do Infante User Commission says there has been a "gross error" and it’s one that needs correcting, even after seven years of being ignored by government.
Donning yellow jackets, twenty protestors distributed leaflets to motorists against a backdrop of posters with sentiments including, "Thank you Costa! Your hands are stained with blood! "
If this socialist dream-world is working so smoothly, why is everyone going on strike?
Between now and the end of 2018, the government has received 47 strike notifications across a range of sectors, most concerningly, in the health service.
A crash between two cars this afternoon, on the EN124 Lagoa to Silves road, left an elderly couple seriously injured.
The accident, near the underpass on the hill to the south of Silves, left a 21-year-old woman with slight injuries.
With a characteristic lack of urgency, two further Lisbon politicians have been lined up to show that the government really cares and will sign a protocol to help those devastated by the August fire in Monchique.
The Secretary of State for Housing, Ana Pinho, and the Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation, Célia Ramos, will attend the signing ceremony of the 'Protocol of Institutional Cooperation between the Municipality of Monchique and the Institute Housing and Urban Rehabilitation.'
The project to build a luxury resort near the cliff tops at Bengil, Lagoa has suffered a body blow with the Environmental Impact Commission issuing a red light for the €180 million tourist development.
A project was submitted to use 22 hectares of unspoiled countryside for a hotel, a tourist village and a hotel-apartment building, a total of 1,279 tourist beds. The development land is 300 metres from the cliffs between Benagil and Marinha beaches.
Theresa May certainly is front page news today after yesterday's, possibly fatal, postponement of a vote in the House of Commons on her government's Brexit deal proposal.
The UK press titles all cover the Prime Minister's decision to defer the Brexit vote rather her facing certain defeat with many formerly loyal supporters deserting her.
