Loulé Council is doing welcome things with its cash pile, including the purchase of the old casino in Quarteira and a 3,000 square metre lot near the Municipal Centre which is to be turned into a car park.
The old casino in Quarteira is a one of those emblematic, much loved buildings which was built in the early 1900s.
A man was stabbed in the Forum Algarve shopping centre on Wednesday afternoon. The assailant, well known to the police, ran off and is in hiding.
An unexpected meeting between two men who held old grievances ended in an argument and a stabbing.
The Pestana Pousadas Group’s investment in Vila Real de Santo António, where it is creating a hotel from three historic C18th buildings in the city centre, should be completed by the end of 2019.
The €3 million development, overlooking Marquês de Pombal square, is using three adjacent buildings that are owned by the Council and its trading subsidiary, Sociedade de Gestão Urbana EM, SA.
The collapse of a 100 metre section of the Borba to Vila Viçosa road, as it passes along a narrow section between two marble quarries, saw a mechanical digger, two cars and a box van, all with their occupants, crash into the water 50 metres below.
Two men have been confirmed dead and three men, possibly more, are still missing.
Most of the Algarve’s courts were without judges today because of strike action. At least five of the region’s courts had no judges at all.
In Portimão, Lagos, Albufeira, Tavira and Vila Real de Santo António courts, the strike action was supported 100%, with a regional figure of over 90% as most downed gavels in protest at the government's sloth in agreeing lucrative changes.
A Computer hacker has been arrested in Faro, suspected of stealing more than €100,000 using other people’s credit card numbers.
Monday’s arrest was ordered by the Public Prosecutor's Office which accuses the suspect of computer fraud.
The Algarve’s hotel and restaurant workers’ union are to push for the restoration of purchasing power for its members as wages were frozen between 2011 and 2017 and need to catch up.
In a union statement addressed to the Algarve hoteliers’ association, the proposal is to revise the Collective Labour Agreement which should come into effect for 2019.
Portugal’s privatised Post Office, CTT, unilaterally has informed Ourique Council that the company it is to close its postal service provision in the municipality and will hand it over to a private entity who will assume almost all the responsibilities currently undertaken.
"We can not accept a privatisation of a privatisation,” said the local mayor.
