China’s Three Gorges' offer to buy a controlling share of Portugal’s energy supplier, EDP, has hit the buffers with regulatory concerns and a lack of ready cash hampering the bidding process.
Regulatory problems have pushed the offer back to early next year, despite a final offer was due in late 2018.
An acrobatic manoeuver carried out by experienced pilot, Eduardo Ferreira, caused his own death when his powered paraglider crashed.
The accident happened on May 20, 2018. Ferreira, 49, died on impact near the football ground in Alvor, Portimão.
The death of a five-year-old British boy, on holiday at the Amendoeira Golf Resort, Silves, this summer, has been ruled as accidental drowning.
Worcestershire Coroner's Court heard that Archie Skidmore, from Belbroughton, Worcestershire, was found floating, face down, in the pool on the first day of a family break.
The Maritime Police, currently in polite mode, are asking owners of boats moored in a forbidden zone near Culatra Island, to remove their vessels from the area.
This initiative has been taking place since 25 October and aims to, organise this space where boats should not be moored as it is a sensitive area of the Ria Formosa and the marine environment easily can be damaged.
Despite the government’s message that the days of austerity are over, Algarve MP, Cristovão Norte has pointed out that of the six vehicles allocated to the Territorial GNR in Loulé, only one is drivable.
According to the Social Democrat Party MP, five of the fleet of vehicles are in the garage being repaired as they kept breaking down due to “obsolescence and lack of investment.”
...and so it starts, a Socialist Party apparatchik taking credit for the wave of happiness created by the decision by Galp-Eni to withdraw from their oil drilling and extraction concession area off Aljezur.
The President of Socialist Party for the Algarve, Luís Graça, has written an open letter to the Prime Minister and the Algarve’s mayors, stressing "the need for the region to agree with the Government on a strategy of environmental excellence, with the consequent reduction of the ecological footprint, encouraging electric mobility, energy efficiency and the valorisation of the immense natural heritage of the Algarve."
According to information released in the media this week, “Galp and ENI decided to abandon the exploration project in the Alentejo basin."
If this decision is confirmed and, therefore, this indeed is the end of the three contracts held by this alliance, PALP is happy - but also warns of a need to analyse the legal implications.
Flying with Ryanair continues to be a challenge with another change to baggage allowances, designed to thwart otherwise street-smart customers with its terms and conditions.
The Irish airline is now charging €6 for non-priority boarding customers carrying hand luggage on board. Ryanair will only allow a maximum of 95 (out of 189 potential passengers per plane) to buy priority boarding. Once this is sold out, customers will have to check-in their bag in at security, at a cost of €20 or €25.
