Portugal’s Public Security Police (PSP) is racing against the clock to expand capacity for housing irregular migrants, as required by the European Union. The deadline is 12th June, the date the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum comes into force, obliging member states to create dedicated accommodation centres.
Privately managed health centres, officially termed Family Health Units (USF), planned for Silves and Lagos could begin operating as soon as the second half of this year, the health minister announced today.
The Socialist Party (PS) today proposed that the Algarve municipalities of Monchique and Alcoutim be included in the support scheme for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of areas affected by Storm Kristin.
One person has died and three others have been injured, one of them seriously, following a collision between a car and a Tavira fire brigade ambulance on Monday morning, 23rd February, on the EN2 road in the Chelote area of Faro municipality.
The body of a 39-year-old German tourist was found having drowned on Monday, 23rd February, after getting into difficulty amidst strong waves and currents at Arrifana beach in Aljezur.
The Government has urged Portuguese police forces to work with local municipalities to identify vacant properties at risk of unlawful occupation in order to prevent squatting, according to the draft law setting out criminal policy for 2025–2027.
The five suspects arrested in this week’s “White Web” drug bust, one of the biggest in the Algarve’s history and focused largely in Portimão, have been revealed to be Venezuelan and Spanish nationals, according to Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ), which today outlined further details of the case at its Lisbon headquarters.
The national coordinator of the Left Bloc (BE) today described the possible closure of the Algarvian branch of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) as utterly irresponsible, warning that public safety is at stake.
