Portugal's banks, as a group, made a profit last year and are in the black so far in 2018.
BCP, BPI, Caixa Geral de Depósitos and Santander Totta made €1.54 billion in the first nine months of 2018, more than triple the €441 million in the same period last year.
To the horror of late night revellers, ASAE officers have busted two kebab wholesalers in Faro that have been handling and storing frozen meat without hygiene licences - both of these distribution businesses have had to suspend trading.
ASAE reported that the businesses stored food of animal origin, aka, kebab meat, that requires a controlled temperature in a cold store but that the businesses did not have authorisations from the veterinary service which checks hygiene processes.
The Algarve’s Director of Culture, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, has been ‘let go,’ with the Secretary of State commenting to Sul Informação that the aim is to "give a new direction and dynamic to the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve."
The Government will not being extending the mandate for Alexandra Gonçalves, so she will be out of a job come December 15th.
For those fancying a gentle jog through the Algarve countryside, the Ultra Trail race may prove a little too much.
Runners will set off on November 29th, hoping to finish the pan-Algarve course by December 2nd – many will not make it as the run is from Alcoutim on the Spanish-Portuguese border to Sagres, at the end of the known world.
A fire broke out early on Sunday morning at a restaurant in Altura, Castro Marim.
The blaze at the Girassol restaurant started in an annex and, due to last night’s high winds, the flames spread rapidly, destroying the whole building.
In a posting on the Presidency of the Republic website, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today warned of "a lamentable reversal of the trend of decreasing road accidents and fatalities since 2010."
The Secretary of State for Civil Protection, José Artur Neves, said that road accidents in Portugal have a negative impact of €2.3 billion, equivalent to 1.2% of the country's GDP.
The row continues over bullfighting it Portugal after the VAT rate on tickets to other cultural shows is to be reduced next year, from 13% to the lowest rate of 6%, thus aggravating pro-bullfighting MPs, even those in the ruling Socialist Party.
The new culture minister, Graca Fonseca, refused to cut VAT on tickets to events in line with other cultural shows, stating that, “It is a matter of civilisation.”
Two men died and one was injured, after a garbage truck left the road and careered down a bank off the EN122 near Vale do Pereiro, Odeleite in Castro Marim.
The accident took place on the Tenência road and an alert was received at 09:00am on Saturday morning. Vila Real de Santo António bombeiros, the INEM medical emergency team and the GNR all rushed to the site of the accident but the two men were declared dead at the scene.
