A British motorcyclist, said to be a participant in the MadRon, ‘Hard Enduro’ bike trial, died on Friday after colliding with a minivan.
MadRon is the organiser of the GPS based ‘Hard Enduro’ off-road biking experience around the forests and mountains in the Monchique area - running from Thursday, to Sunday 11th November.
A clear indication of EDP’s actual trading has become clear as the company announced that that, in the year to September, the EDP Group has made €297 million, down 74% on 2017. The business in Portugal is making a loss for the first time since privatisation.
EDP, led by António Mexia, now has to get along without hundreds of millions in support payments from taxpayers under the 'Custos para a Manutenção do Equilíbrio Contratual' (CMEC) payments system, set up when the business was sold by the State to private investors .
After a 15-month investigation by Eurojust and Europol into illegal gambling websites and machines, Portugal’s GNR carried out 267 national house searches and 8 house searches in Luxembourg earlier this week.
As a result, 30 individuals were arrested in Portugal and one detained in Luxembourg under a European Arrest Warrant.
Those finding themselves at the western corner of the San Lorenzo Golf Course lake, at Quinta do Lago, have been treated to an unexpected glimpse of a shy and equally unexpected guest as a Green Heron has made the area its home, albeit temporarily.
This small heron comes from North and Central America and is likely to have been blown in on the back of the recent windy weather that has been troubling the Atlantic.
The Constitutional Court has refused to consider an appeal lodged by the former MP, Duarte Lima, against a six-year jail sentence he received in the BPN Homeland fraud and money-laundering case.
This being the Portuguese justice system, Lima can appeal his unsuccessful appeal to the Constitutional Court - to the Constitutional Court.
Gas drilling projects due to start next year may not be in National Ecological Reserve zones, but will disturb areas containing archaeological remains.
The environmental impact studies (EIA) made for the 620,000 hectare Aljubarrota and Pombal onshore oil and gas concession areas, controlled by Australis Oil & Gas, show that the proposed drill sites are in areas of "high archaeological sensitivity."
Hotels and Alojamento Local tourist accommodation businesses across the Algarve, saw a 3.5% increase in earnings in October compared to the same period of 2017, despite a 1% drop in the occupation rate.
"The volume of sales increased by 3.5% in October, reported the region’s Hotels and Tourist Enterprises of Algarve association (AHETA) in the summary of its monthly report.
Two former mayors of Silves Council, Isabel Soares and Rogério Pinto, have lost their appeals against their conviction in the Vigia D’Ouro case, whose detrimental financial effects are continue to hamper municipal finances.
In October, 2018, the Court of Auditors upheld an earlier judgement that the former mayors, Isabel Soares and Rogério Pinto have to pay the sums of €228,399 and €30,624, plus interest, to the Council Treasury as they had been "the perpetrators of a financial infraction of a reintegrative nature."
