Four hooded and armed men robbed the Davis Rosas up-market jewellery shop in the Quinta Shopping complex at the entrance to Quinta do Lago this morning, Thursday 28th September.
According to TVI, the robbery happened at 10:30 am, when the four men entered the shop, brandishing guns and smashing display cases with a hammer. They stole luxury watches and jewellery.
“Portimão has now lost the support of cultural foundation Cultugarve due to lack of interest from the city hall,” comments the founder of Cultugarve, the Algarve’s premier cultural agenda organisation.
The main reason for this decision is that the foundation been trying to establish a working relationship with the city hall for over a year, with no success. Letters and e-mails have remained unanswered despite the foundation funding events itself for the benefit of locals and tourists.
The British government has awarded a further €175,000 to fund the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The ongoing Operation Grange so far has cost the British taxpayer the sterling equivalent to €12.5 million in the ten year search for any trace of the British girl who disappeared in Praia da Luz on May 3rd, 2007.
Portugal's top three banks have decided to club together over those problem customers who owe all three of them money.
Some jointly held bad loans soon will be managed by a special team made up from managers at Caixa Geral de Depositos, Novo Banco and MillenniumBCP.
The Spanish Ministry of Health has confirmed 154 cases of food poisoning, triggered by the consumption of adulterated Spanish tuna in several regions of the country, in other European countries and in Portugal.
According to El Mundo newspaper, Spain’s Ministry of Health confirmed on Wednesday that the tuna poisoning had caused a rash of problems across Spain and in others countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Portugal.
Eighty cases of female genital mutilation were registered in Portugal last year.
The Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality claims that the work being done to combat this most hideous of crimes against "women over the age of 15, in late adolescence or adulthood" is being effective but needs further work within Portugal's foreign communities.
The long-running investigation into qualified tax fraud, corruption and money laundering, involving 31 defendants, nine companies and 22 individuals, should be finished a month before the deadline meaning that charges finally will be announced in October.
José Sócrates, (pictured), the prime suspect in an alleged web of illicit transactions, dubious commissions, tax evasion, offshore accounts, cash payments and corruption, will soon know the details of what he is being charged.
The Judiciary Police have arrested the person who shot a man in the face early on Tuesday morning, September 26th, in the Penha area of Faro.
According to the police, the detainee approached a man sitting in the front seat of a car and fired a shot through the window, "which hit him on the right cheek."
