The Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marquês, visited the eastern Algarve to state with his characteristic confidence, that the western Algarve roadworks have cost €80 million and this had been a Socialist Government production.
Marquês was meeting and greeting on the EN125 near Olhão on Wednesday to mark the end of the EN125 and EN124 emergency roadworks, made necessary by years of zero investment by his government.
August is just around the corner and temperatures are predicted to increase sharply next week with some inland regions being hit with 40°C or more.
The IPMA weather service says that a mass of super-hot air from the Spanish interior will affect mainland Portugal from the end the week and may trigger an official heatwave in the early days of August.
The Ministry of the Environment is to issue a penalty of up to €5 million on those responsible for stripping bare an estimated 30 hectares of protected landscape at Cacela Velha, Vila Real de Santo António.
The reason for the destruction still is not known but the Ministry of the Environment now has stated that it had not authorised any such clearance work and that the devastation is an environmental crime.
Ryanair’s management has taken the controversial step of publishing the salary slips of striking cabin crew and pilots in a move aimed at showing its staff to be earning enviable salaries.
Unions representing workers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Germany met their Portuguese counterparts in April to discuss the low-cost labour policy adopted by Ryanair.
The Maritime Museum Almirante Ramalho Ortigão, the oldest museum in the Algarve will reopen on Friday, 27th July.
According to the Southern Maritime Command, a reopening ceremony will take place at 11:00 am in the Maritime building at the harbour in Faro.
Five Ryanair flight due to leave from faro airport this morning were cancelled due to management’s inability to resolve cabin crew grievances that has ensure strike action has been implemented.
The Edinburgh and Manchester service was cancelled as well as flights to Belgium and Germany. Eindhoven Edinburgh and Hamburg flights took off as scheduled.
Costs associated with operating a Portuguese bank account are double those in Spain, according to a Deloitte report.
The average price per year for a bank account in Portugal is €78 while in Spain it is €38, according to the study which showed the fees paid in seven countries: Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands.
The Ferragudo lifeboat carried out an operation to help tourists who were in difficulties inside the famous cave at Benagil.
According to the Maritime Authority, "the vessel was in the Lagoa coastal zone on a training exercise for a new lifeboat crew who detected four tourists in difficulties within the cave at Benagil."
