Lisbon’s Left Bloc council leader resigned on Sunday after revelations broke that he was involved in property speculation in the Alfama area of city while politically supporting an expansion of affordable housing.
Ricardo Robles tried to weather the storm that he whipped up by his buying a prime, city centre property for nearly €350,000, spending an estimated million euros on refurbishing it and putting it on the market for a cool €5 million.
Olhão Maritime Police officers swooped on wild campers who has pitched their tents on the Ria Formosa island of Culatra.
Officers questioned 38 people, divided into four groups, after news reports had been circulated indicating tents had been erected in the sand dunes and bonfires had been lit.
The Algarve needed 67 additional doctors this summer but the Regional Health Administration reports that its latest recruitment drive has resulted in the hiring of zero new medics.
Undaunted, a new tender is being launched to hire 69 specialists for the region.
One man is dead and nine people have been injured in a three car accident on the EN125 at Estômbar in Lagoa this morning, Monday, July 30th.
Seven of those injured were transported to hospital, in Portimão and in Faro and two were assisted on the spot.
Thirty immigrants from Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Sudan arrived in Portugal from Malta on Sunday afternoon.
The immigrants had been rescued by The Lifeline humanitarian ship in June and have arrived at the Bobadela Reception Centre, stated the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Three firefighters have been injured while tacking a huge blaze at the Celtejo paper mill in Vila Velha de Ródão in the Castelo Branco district
The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon and water deliveries from two helicopters attempting to control the flames.
The sale of the development areas at Herdade da Comporta, scheduled to be announced on Friday July 27th, has been postponed with the announcement of new deadline for proposals of September 20th.
The shareholders’ meeting that was to decide on the sale of sell two tourist areas at the former Espírito Santo clan's playground was postponed and a new meeting scheduled for September 28th.
A five-year-old British boy has died after drowning in a villa swimming pool at the Amendoeira Golf Resort, Silves, on a family holiday.
The boy had been playing at the pool with his two siblings but it is not clear whether anyone was in the pool at the time.
