A schoolgirl from the Roma community based in the Alentejo has been told by a court that she doesn’t have to go to school anymore.
The fifteen-year-old had pretty much stopped going to school, claiming she was helping her sick mother with domestic tasks. A case was brought under the Protection of Minors legislation concerning the seventh year pupil at a school in Avis, in the Upper Alentejo.
Depressed, angry and at their wits’ end, the high-profile British couple given permission to create a home on the Ria Formosa island of Armona - and then told it was illegal and would have to be bulldozed - took their fight to Minister, Pedro Matos Fernandes yesterday by mounting a protest in front of the Environment Ministry.
For two hours, James Tod and Paul Roseby handed out leaflets to incoming Ministry staff complaining that they are caught in the middle of a legal wrangle that has nothing to do with them and, the way things are going, will not be resolved in their lifetime.
Multi-millionaire football team manager, José Mourinho, has been fined €2m and handed an agreed one-year suspended prison sentence in order to end the Spanish tax evasion case against him.
The manager of Manchester United had been charged with two tax frauds, dating back to when he was at Real Madrid, which denied Spain’s treasury €3.3m in 2011 and 2012.
Warning bells have been ringing in estate agencies across Portugal due to the Left Bloc’s insistence that the 2019 State Budget should include the scrapping of the Non-Habitual Resident scheme that has attracted thousands of foreign buyers of property.
Finland already has torn up its tax treaty with Portugal, with Sweden making firm steps to do the same.
As a result of strong domestic and international demand, coupled with a shortage of property for sale, house prices in Portugal are expected to increase 9.5% this year, predicts S&P.
If this estimate is correct, Portugal will be the European country with the highest rise in real estate prices among the ten countries that the US rating agency has analysed.
Political and practical obstructions have left the Monchique mayor little option but to announce that the repairs to, and reconstruction of, properties damaged by the recent devastating fires, will only be concluded in 2019 “due to legal problems.”
The wildfire that swept across the hills and through the valleys of the densely wooded Council area started on August 3rd and finally declared extinguished a week later after 27,600 hectares of land was left charred with many buildings damaged or destroyed .
The Sagres, an impressive three masted training ship, will arrive at Faro docks tomorrow to kick start the City’s annual day of civic celebrations.
The Sagres will be at Faro's Commercial Pier from September 5th to 8th in an historic first visit.
It’s the end of the road for the residents of the Faro Island camp site, the scene of a long-running battle between the residents and Faro Council which has voted to move them on to make way for tourist facilities.
The Council now has scrapped the agreement that was in place with the Association representing the occupants of the camp site and the residents will have to move on September 15, 2019, or be moved.
