The GNR has named a 20-year-old man as a formal suspect for a hit-and-run incident, along with failure to render assistance, following an accident that left one individual seriously injured in Albufeira.
The final week of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s presidential election began with Socialist Party (PS) candidate António José Seguro in the lead, according to a daily Pitagórica poll for a group of national newspapers including JN, TSF, TVI and CNN.
Works in the eastern section of the Ancão Peninsula, at Praia de Faro, in Faro, which includes the demolition of 17 houses, is now halfway through and is expected to be completed by the end of April. Work on the western section, where the demolition of a further 25 houses is planned, will then remain to be carried out.
The government is set to invest €52.5 million in rivers and streams across the Algarve and Alentejo under ‘Pró-Rios’, a national ecological restoration programme, it was announced on Monday, 12th January.
A shortage of staff has once again disrupted pre-hospital emergency responses in the Algarve, with several INEM ambulances out of service on Monday, 12th January. As the day progressed, the situation worsened, leaving a large part of the fleet unavailable.
The Council of Ministers has approved this Friday, 9 January, a resolution to launch the tender for the construction of the long awaited Algarve Central Hospital, the Prime Minister announced today.
“We cannot tolerate excessive noise” linked to nightlife, Lisbon’s Mayor Carlos Moedas has stated. The exceptional measure, a ban (with limits depending on day and time) on the public consumption of alcohol, is intended to respond to a large number of complaints from residents.
It has been reported that a 68-year-old man died on Wednesday, 7 January, in Tavira after waiting more than an hour for a delayed emergency services responde, according to a family source quoted by the Lusa news agency.
