Ria Formosa - next wave of demolitions to go ahead

demolishThe Environment Minister has assured the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment that there will be no further demolitions beyond the 22 'at risk' houses on the island of Culatra whose owners already have been notified.
 
Minister João Matos Fernandes was responding to a set question from Faro’s socialist MP, Luís Graça, who had asked if the government planned to demolish any more houses, after the current batch of 22.

Aljezur test well drilling suspended for three months

oilAljezurImageLoulé court today has suspended all oil and gas drilling activity off the Alentejo coast for three months.
 
Anti-oil association, PALP, was in court today pursuing its legal case to see the Galp-ENI consortium banned from drilling its first test well in the ocean 40 kilometres off Aljezur.

Albufeira mayor dies at 60

AlbufeiraMayorAlbufeira’s town hall flag is at half-mast today after the city’s mayor, Carlos Eduardo Silva e Sousa, suffered a heart attack and died at his home on Thursday evening - he was 60-years-old.
 
The mayor had joined the region’s other mayors yesterday afternoon to lend his considerable support to the anti-oil drilling meeting and resulting declaration (HERE) that was signed in Loulé. Later, at around 10pm, he was taken ill at his home.

Pilgrim faked her own rape in Santiago and Fátima

santiagocompostelaA Venezuelan woman was hospitalised in Spain after claiming she had been raped and abandoned on the Camino de Santiago.
 
It turned out that the allegations were false and that she had invented much the same story on a pilgrimage to Fátima in Portugal.

SEF cracks prostitution network supplying 20 brothels

prostituteThe Foreigners & Borders Service has completed an operation to dismantle an organisation run by a foreign citizen who controlled 20 brothels in various parts of the country including Quarteira and Faro.
 
Court orders were obtained to raid premises in Caldas da Rainha, Cadaval, Santarém, Leiria, Ourém, Nazaré, Évora, Quarteira and Faro.

Government expects householders to clear scrub around their properties

fireforestThe government has sent an email to Portugal’s householders, advising them of what to do to comply with existing fire regulations.
 
In collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the email from the Tax Authority outlines the importance of clearing land and trees as a fire prevention measure.

Portugal ranks 29th in the worldwide 'perception of public sector corruption' index

worldPortugal's 2017 'corruption in the public sector' score is 63, rising just one point in a year, a small change which Transparency International says is not statistically significant.
 
The country continues to stagnate in the fight against corruption, according to Portugal’s Association for Transparency and Integrity (TIAC), which points out that little has changed in the past six years as the points score has been a stubborn 62 or 63.

Joaquim Coimbra, the man who had it all, loses everything

eurozoneWith debts of €137.4 million, the Portuguese entrepreneur who made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry and was a shareholder of the now bankrupt BPN and BPP, is to surrender his not inconsiderable assets to his creditors.
 
Joaquim Coimbra's 32 creditors have nine days in which to confirm they accept his proposal, under a Special Agreement for Payment Agreement (PEAP) that has been submitted jointly by the businessman and his wife.
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