A 74-year-old fisherman died on Thursday afternoon after the Princesa do Mira, from Quarteira, floundered and sank two miles south of Faro.
The alert was sent out and received by rescue services which did not locate the men in the water until 4.55pm, nearly three hours later, by which time one crew member had died and the other, a 55-year-old, had already been rescued by a passing French yacht.
National and region associations in the Algarve remain aghast at the destruction of ancient trees on ecological land near Cacela Velha and angry that there has been zero response to enquiries as to whom, if anyone, authorised the work that rendered 40 hectares of supposedly protected land looking like a battleground.
The associations say there is a "deafening silence" over the affair which has been raised with the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests, which you would think might take an interest, and in parliament.
There was standing room only at the “information session” held in Barão de S, João mid-week - and in the middle of the afternoon - in a bid to calm local concern over the stripping of hectares of countryside to make way for yet another massive monoculture, writes Natasha Donn at the Resident.
Speaker Rui Fernandes was representing the latest tropical fruit and vegetable company to ‘come west’, acting as a middle man also for distributors TROPS.
Total government debt and money owed by companies and families in Portugal exceeded €724 billion at the end of May, a new record in the history of the Republic.
"In May 2018, non-financial sector debt stood at €724.7 billion, of which €322.4 billion was for the public sector and €402.3 billion for the private sector," read the Bank of Portugal’s report, released on Thursday.
A Lisbon judge has sent 39 of the Hell’s Angels gang members to jail, pending trial. Of the 58 arrested in Portugal last week, the remaining 19 detainees will have to report daily to the authorities in their home Council areas.
The criminal investigation judge ruled that 39 of the 58 detainees of the Hell's Angels motorcycle group should be detained.
The 2016 law that prohibits Council vets continuing to kill healthy animals held in municipal kennels, comes into force this October but there are no sanctions for those Councils vets who ignore the law and carry on killing stray cats and dogs.
According to Público, local authorities have tried to buy more time but the government has not backed down - Councils have had long enough to prepare and the 2016 law will be enforced as from October 2018.
A proposal presented to parliament by the Left Bloc and the Portuguese Communist Party, to abolish tolls on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway, was voted down during the last full session before the Summer break.
Socialist Party MPs did as they were told and voted against the proposal, except those Socialist MPs representing the Algarve who were allowed to show they care by voting for the proposal.
The Minister for the Sea suddenly has become all interested in Portimão, having ignored the city's cries for grown-up cruise ship facilities throughout her tenure.
With a general election due in the Autumn of 2019, Ana Paula Vitorino has decided that this Algarve port should become the region’s largest for the cruise market, which it is anyway, and for commercial vessels.
