The Algarve Wine Commission is launching a map, in the form of a poster, showing the Algarve’s wine producers, their contact details, vineyard GPS coordinates and what’s on offer when you visit.
In addition to this map, Carlos Gracias, president of the CVA, said that a smartphone app will be launched at the same time, “which will allow the consumer to have access to specific information about the region, and also to locate the nearest point of sale or restaurant with Algarve wine on the shelf.”
Angola's new President, João Lourenço, has removed Isabel dos Santos from the top job at the state-owned oil company, Sonangol.
Africa’s richest woman was sacked, as was her board of directors in a move that draws up the battle lines between the new premiership and Angola’s still-powerful dos Santos family whose head, José Eduardo doe Santos, ran the oil-rich African country for nearly 40 years.
Property and goods seized by the State are now sold off via a Internet auctions, enabling higher prices to be achieved.
These electronic have made the range of seized cars, goods and properties more accessible to the public and fairer prices achieved.
Altice, which owns PT and MEO in Portugal and a worldwide raft of communications companies, has seen its shares plummet on the Amsterdam stock exchange where it is traded.
On Tuesday alone, the company run by Patrick Drahi, lost 13% of its share value and already is worth about half it was before its third quarter results were announced in November 2nd.
In response to this summer’s devastating fires, the Government has decided to hand over the management of Portugal’s forests to a company that will be created in 2018.
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development announced to parliament on Tuesday that "the government has decided and will have an allocation in this State Budget, to create a public company for forest management. We want the state to advance, to set an example and to have a more proactive attitude that demonstrates to society that it is possible to manage forests under a new system."
Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, greeted today’s economic figures with good cheer but said we need to “grow a little more” to reduce the country’s debt.
Economic growth data released by the National Statistics Institute showed "a positive trajectory" but the elephant in the room remains the overall indebtedness.
In possibly a first for recent Portuguese politics, a minister has apologised without being prompted. Health Minister, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, today apologised to surviving Legionnaires disease victims and said that they, or their surviving families, must be compensated for the damage done.
The statement was made in parliament during a discussion about the State health department budget for next year.
Portugal’s National Institute of Statistics and the region’s tourist board agree on one thing, the number of tourists visiting the Algarve this year has been record-breaking with a September figure of 2.3 million overnight stays boosting the year’s total.
The September increase is up 2.3% in terms of the number of nights spent in the region but tourists are spending more, or being charged more, with receipts up over 10% on last year as hotels took in €138 million.
