Two PSP (Public Security Police) officers from Olhão accused of abducting and killing a Moroccan man in March 2024 went on trial at Faro Court today, 8th September, denying responsibility for the victim’s death.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched legal proceedings seeking the removal from office of Albufeira Mayor Rui Cristina at Loulé’s Administrative and Fiscal Court, following a petition submitted by the citizens’ group “Albufeira sem Medo” (Albufeira Without Fear), the informal group announced.
António Miguel Pina, mayor of Faro, has accused the previous municipal administration of leaving projects without the necessary conditions to move forward, as well as leaving the council with outstanding debts to FAGAR, a municipal business responsible for water and waste management, amounting to around €2 million a year.
Plans for a long-awaited €6 million underground car park in Carvoeiro, part of the municipality of Lagoa, have taken a significant step forward, with the project expected to go out to public tender for construction early next year.
Quercus, Portugal’s National Association for Nature Conservation, has criticised the Government’s decision to build a waste incinerator in the Algarve, describing it as an “anachronistic and inappropriate” solution to the region’s seasonal peaks in waste production.
Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone was detained at Tires Aerodrome in Cascais this morning, 7 September, after arriving in Portugal in his private jet. He is being investigated by Portugal’s Tax and Customs Authority over the alleged transportation of a shotgun.
August tends to be one of the quieter months in Portugal’s political calendar, with Parliament in recess until the middle of September, and many city-dwellers flocking to villas and hotels in the Algarve from Lisbon and Porto, much like migratory birds, hoping to sun their feathers along the coast like gulls. However, quiet is the last word that is likely to spring to mind following the briefest glance at any of the Algarve’s myriad whitewashed towns and villages at this time of the year, as the locals eagerly await the mass move northwards, having successfully filled the coffers to keep themselves afloat for another winter.
Two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, named Xianna and Xaloc, have been returned to the ocean after undergoing treatment and rehabilitation at the Zoomarine Algarve’s Porto d’Abrigo rehabilitation centre.
