The Public Prosecutor's Office has closed down the judicial process that investigated the alleged diversion of donations that were meant to go to the victims of the fatal Pedrógão Grande fires.
The prosecutor filed the case, concluding that there had been no misappropriation of cash or materials.
A Judge at the Court of Appeal in Porto, heavily criticised for his demeaning verbal attacks on women, has been transferred to a civil section of the court so he won’t have to decide on domestic violence cases.
This is just as well as a recent appeal catapulted the judge into the headline after he cited the Bible and the Portuguese Penal Code of 1886 which allows for little more than a symbolic penalty even if a husband kills his adulterous wife.
Confirming what every car owner knows to his or her cost, new cars in Portugal are among the most expensive in Europe.
Jornal de Notícias looked at prices for 20 best selling car models in Portugal, Spain, France and Germany and found that not one vehicle was more expensive in the other countries.
An investment company from the United Arab Emirates is interested in searching for gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and iron in the Alentejo.
A request already had been submitted to the Directorate-General for Energy and Geology.
In his weekly SIC TV programme, Luís Marques Mendes analysed the accounts of Novo Banco and concluded that the €1.149 billion requested of the Resolution Fund is a "calamity" for the Portuguese public.
Mendes added that, although the bank's request for yet more capital is within the rules, "it's all profoundly immoral."
Portugal’s Borders Service staff today accused the government of irresponsibility for not increasing the number of inspectors, arguing that the current cadre of 800 is insufficient for the Brexit contingency plan.
"In not increasing the number of inspectors, the government is being irresponsible," the union states, arguing that as sufficient inspectors will not be in place the government’s contingency plan will be ineffective or unsafe.
An orange alert closed Lisbon airport today after a TAP flight that had left for Bologna had to return due to a ‘technical malfunction.’
The flight, with 154 passengers on board, was forced to return to Lisbon and forced the temporary closure of airspace.
Accidents on Portugal’s roads have caused 83 deaths in the first two months of the year, one more than in the same period of 2018, said the National Highway Safety Authority.
According to the ANSR, which collects data from the road police, the number of accidents has increased this year, with 20,322 crashes, 185 more than in the same period last year.
