Parliament has approved a Left Bloc proposal that the Bank of Portugal must release the names of all those who took advantage of controversial tax amnesties in 2005, 2010 and 2012 which enabled citizens to repatriate offshore funds without triggering tax payments.
The names will be made available to Finanças whose investigators carefully can check out the financial background of each person involved.
The Prosecutor's Office is investigating the involvement of organised crime and terrorism in the Tancos missing armaments case but the prime minister today said that the investigation is not looking at these two groups, claiming he has information from "national authorities."
Replying to a question posed by a student about the possible involvement of terrorists, Costa replied that, "This scenario fortunately does not arise because the national authorities, and in particular the Secretary General of the Internal Security System, met the Counter Terrorism Coordination Unit, which identified that the theft had nothing to do with organised crime, let alone terrorist activity."
Meetings are scheduled to want the Algarve’s residents that they are adding far too much salt to their meals.
The Order of Nutritionists is expounding its latest concern about salt’s relationship with hypertension.
Social Democratic Party MP, Cristóvão Norte, has criticised the continued blocking of the funds needed to build a new hospital in the Algarve region.
The Democrats have been trying to get an amendment to the State Budget 2019 that ensured the Hospital Central do Algarve, first agreed in 2006 but blocked every year since due to funding 'issues,' would at last be constructed as the current ones can't cope.
Ending years of eye-watering stench that could almost be cut with a knife, the good citizens of Olhão now can rest assured that the air they breath will be fresh, the waters of the Ria Formosa markedly less polluted and that local sewage now is being processed in a thoroughly modern and efficient manner.
The Minister of the Environment and Energy Transition, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, has inaugurated the new Faro-Olhão Waste Water Treatment Plant and associated pumping station, which together have cost €22 million.
Joe Berardo owes Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) €280 million, according to revelations in a forensic audit carried out by the Government that has analysed how the State-owned bank was managed between 2000 and 2015.
CGD loaned the money to enable the businessman to buy shares in BCP, without demanding the guarantees necessary to safeguard the loan.
A group of 25 telemetry experts from across Europe are meeting this week in Olhão to implement part of the European Tracking Network, which will study the movement of fish and other marine animals.
By using electronic tags, researchers can follow migratory movement, allowing the scientists to identify habitats critical for the protection of species.
A partly-built, luxury villa in Quinta do Lago has been demolished on the orders of Loulé Council.
The original building permit was issued by the municipality for construction of a house on Lot No. 30, Loteamento do Lago in Quinta do Lago.
