The best preserved shipwreck ever found from the age of Christopher Columbus (pictured) and Vasco da Gama has been discovered – at the bottom of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Estonia, writes David Keys Archaeology Correspondent at the Independent. See HERE.
The newly discovered Baltic Mary Celeste is also at the heart of a 500 year old maritime mystery.
Of a list of 1,120 buildings along Portugal’s coastline which have received demolition orders in the last decade, less than half have been removed.
In the last ten years 489 coastal properties have been demolished, most of them on the Algarver’s Ria Formosa isands.
Consumer champion, DECO, has seen pressure put on Caixa Geral produce results. The taxpayer owned bank has decided to resume paying interest on low value deposits.
"Caixa Geral de Depósitos has retreated in its decision to stop paying interest on savings deposits," stated António Ribeiro, financial analyst at DECO.
Portugal’s ruling Socialist party has extended its lead, according to an opinion poll released three months before the general election.
This places António Costa's party on track to winning the majority he so keenly wants.
The Portuguese Government announced, on July 12, a firm order of five multi-mission airlifters Embraer KC-390 as part of the process to modernise Portuguese Air Force capacities to support national Armed Forces operations and increase readiness in missions of public interest.
Deliveries are scheduled to start in 2023.
Despite a demanding ceiling price of €45/MWh the Portuguese government's tender for solar generation facilities has received applications for projects with seven times the generation capacity it will allocate.
Portugal’s decision for public auction procurement process for PV plants has been met with spectacular demand, writes Marian Willuhn.
Faro Council's operations are at the centre of raids by police investigating a saddening, yet all too familiar litany of corruption and embezzlement.
So far, four people have been made official suspects after AMBIFARO, Gestão de Equipamentos Municipais, E.M., Faro’s municipal market and a lawyer's office were raided, as well as suspects’ homes, in the search for evidence.
A highly suspicious and partial report, issued in 2017 by the Institute for the Conservation of Forestry and Nature, has been discreditied by the PAN political party which is demanding that the Lagoa wetlands be classified as a protected zone.
The party also has demanded that the ICNF carries out a new study that takes the matter seriously and stops referring to the freshwaterr wetland as of no interest and not worth protecting.
