More than 3,000 people have signed a public petition that today was presented to parliament, arguing that "prostitution is not work."
The petitions agree that prostitution is, "a form of exploitation that subverts the social status and rights of all women," and that, "prostitution is a form of violence against prostituted persons, particularly against women and children."
In a life-altering move for many islanders, the government has recognised the 'fishing nucleus of Culatra' as a real place and now part of Faro Council’s union of parishes.
In a statement posted on the Diário da República website (n.º 198/2018, 2º Suplemento, Série I de 2018-10-15) the government has taken note of the islanders’ claims to a quiet life and the right to continue to live in houses that many of them were born in.
João Rendeiro, the former president of Banco Privado Português, has been sentenced to five years in prison but, of course, will not spend a single night in jail as his sentence was suspended.
The former bank executive’s must pay €400,000 to Associação Crescer, or he will be jailed. Other BPP managers also received suspended prison sentences despite participating in a scheme that left their customers €41 million worse off.
About 60,000 customers in the Central region were without power late on Monday afternoon due to the storm that hit late on Saturday evening.
Power company, EDP, said that "the number of consumers without energy continues to decrease compared to the peak of more than 300,000 yesterday morning, currently standing at about 60,000 customers, mostly located in the district of Coimbra and in the area of Louriçal, Pombal."
The famous tiles from Santa Monica in Goa, along with rare C16th gold tiles and many other fine examples, will be on display in an exhibition starting on October 20th when, 'From Faro to Goa: a trip through the tiles of Ramalho Ortigão' will be launched in the Municipal Museum of Faro.
Faro Council commented that the exhibition is a chronological and geographical route for the main tiles acquired by the distinguished Naval officer, Ramalho Ortigão, which seem to have been languishing in the museum vault since the 1960s.
The Algarve's hotels recorded more than three million overnight stays in August, the strongest month of the high season for tourism in Portugal, taking a 40% share of the total number of nights spent in the country by tourists.
The regional tourist authority said National Statistics Institute figures show that in a single month, a total of 3,028,000 overnight stays were recorded in the Algarve’s hotels with an unknown additional number spent in rental properties.
It’s a record - a gust of wind measured at 176 kmph,* was recorded at Figueira da Foz on Saturday night as Hurricane Leslie swept over the Portuguese coastline, heading inland towards northern Spain.
This single blast elicited a statement from Portugal’s IPMA weather service, "this is highest value recorded in stations of the national meteorological network."
Pestana Group has serious questions about the Environmental Impact Study for the enlargement of the Port of Setúbal, claiming the study is more to do with commercial interest than with the environment.
The expansion and deepening of the maritime access channel to the Port of Setúbal, which will have environmental consequences for the Sado Estuary and the Tróia Peninsula, "is a matter of deep concern to the Pestana Hotel Group," which runs the Pestana Tróia Eco-Resort on the Tróia Peninsula.
