The power of persistence is paying off as the Save Alagoas Brancas environmental group is to have its voice heard in parliament.
Dr Albano Mendonça, from Albufeira, was convicted yesterday at the Court of Portimão and sentenced to five years in prison for forgery and fiddling the State in a drugs scam.
Maritime Police officers from Tavira have caught two Spanish fishing boats whose crews illegally had been catching shellfish.
In just one week, the GNR caught 2,799 drivers who were breaking the speed limit on Portugal’s roads.
Still smarting from a stout thrashing in the nation’s media this week over the failure of Ferrovial 2020, the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure today addressed parliament and delivered yet more promises to build new railway lines and develop improvements to the country’s existing rail network.
Ryanair's cabin crew based in Portugal decided on Thursday to call a three-day strike in the last two weeks of March and again in the first half of April, due to "business practices that seriously undermine workers' rights.”
The Left Bloc stance today was that the Portuguese Environment Agency has failed regarding pollution in the Tagus river, that it failed to properly control the pulp producer, Celtejo and that the president of the agency must resign.
Olhão, Portimão and Faro are to have CCTV cameras installed to monitor and record activity in their main trouble spots, with a live feed to local police stations.
