Drivers have not got the message about mobile phone use while on the go, an average of 115-a-day have been stopped and fined by traffic police, so far this year.
Despite all the warnings and grim statistics regarding the increased chance of an accident, Portuguese drivers continue to break the law.
The Algarve is too rich to help the poor: this is the conclusion of the European Commission whose rules for State support of Europe’s poorest citizens preclude the Algarve's social aid institutions from applying successfully for grants to combat poverty and discrimination.
A complaint has been lodged by José Carlos Barros, a PSD MP in the Algarve, speaking during the 2019 Budget deliberations.
The Minister of Planning and Infrastructure said today that the closure of Post Office branches, especially those in countryside areas, "is the wrong strategy."
Pedro Marquês added that "unfortunately" there is no way that he can doing anything about the situation as the CTT Post Office business was sold off by the government and now is in private hands.
The Government is studying the possibility of selling 200 tons of uranium ore concentrate, stored in drums at the abandoned mine at Nelas, Viseu.
The material has been in storage since the closure of the Urgeiriça mines in 1999.
As the Algarve’s mayors continue with the uncertainty over the proposed tourist tax, Porto’s city fathers have given a strong indication that the money raised will have little to do with tourism and everything to do with replacing general public spending.
AMAL, the Algarve’s mayor’s group, voted to impose a tourist tax to fund projects to do with ... tourism. This decision now has to be ratified on a council-by-council basis and it is already clear that various Council Assemblies will vote down the proposal, creating a patchwork of tourist tax Councils, unable easily to fund general projects as not all municipalities contributed.
Former minister Arlindo de Carvalho and the former president of Banco Português de Negócios (BPN), Oliveira e Costa, (pictured) on Monday were convicted of fraud and tax fraud in another case relating to their management of BPN.
Arlindo de Carvalho, Oliveira e Costa and his partner in a real estate company, José Neto, were found guilty and sentenced in in Lisbon. Ricardo Oliveira was acquitted.
The second emergency landing in two days at an airport in the Portuguese mainland was reported today after a Transavia flight diverted to Faro early on Monday.
The Transavia service from Funchal to Amsterdam had 149 people on board.
A Portuguese businessman has been murdered in Mozambique after his kidnapping and subsequent payment of a ransom, reported the Secretary of State for Portuguese Overseas Communities, José Luís Carneiro.
The victim has lived and worked in Mozambique for eight years in the civil engineering sector.
