Saint Vincent is to have a Catholic Church named in his honour in the western Algarve.
Just over 1,700 years after his death, St Vincent remains a martyr and patron of the Algarve's diocese despite his being the patron Saint of Lisbon – and of winemakers.
Portugal's parliament formally has recommended to the government executive that it suspends oil and gas exploration in the Alcobaça and Pombal concession areas, in accordance to a resolution just published in Diário da República.
In the official entry, MPs recommend that the executive, "makes every effort to cancel the exploration contracts for hydrocarbons in the Lusitanian Basin, in Alcobaça and Pombal, with the Australian company, Australis, Oil & Gas."
Duarte Lima has been acquitted in the case of the missing €5 million, allegedly stolen from Rosalina Ribeiro in Brazil and transferred to Lima’s Swiss bank account.
A Lisbon Criminal Court found Duarte Lima had no case to answer a key witness altered his testimony during the investigation.
Recorded crime declined in 2018 in all regions of Portugal, even the number of ATM explosions was down 90%.
In the parliamentary commission for Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, the Home Affairs Minister, Eduardo Cabrita, told MPs that the provisional 2018 data for crime showed that by November 2018, the trend of falling crime statistics had continued and quickened.
The agreement to start work at the Montijo air base today was signed between Portugal’s airports concession holder and the Government.
The Montijo conversion should be completed by the end of 2022 but the contract covers work to 2028. The €1.15 billion cost will be borne by Aeroportos de Portugal (ANA), controlled by the French infrastructure group Vinci.
The leader of a group of pickpockets, responsible for dozens of thefts in the Algarve, has been arrested in Spain following a Portimão police investigation.
The man, described only as “a 55-year-old foreigner with a long criminal record,” was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant and has been extradited to Portugal to face charges.
The 2018 numbers for company start-ups show that 45,191 new enterprises were created in Portugal last year. The figures from Informa D&B show a 10% increase over 2017.
Of the significant number of new companies, 40% are in sectors related to tourism, over 18,000 companies.
Castro Marim’s mayor, the Social Democrat, Francisco Amaral, is triggering a mid-term Council election by standing down at the end of January or in early February.
The city Council’s executive has no clear majority, leaving Amaral at the whim of his opposition and the mayor has been unable to get things done in the way he would like.
