With a price of €140 for one 'dourada,' (golden bream), a restaurant in Lisbon has hit the headlines as the capital’s biggest rip-off.
It gets worse: €250 each for a mixed seafood dish for two, and €5 for a beer. This are the sorts of prices being charged to tourists at Made in Correeiros, a restaurant in downtown Lisbon.
The Portuguese multi-millionaire footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, said today after his tax hearing in Spain, that he never concealed his income and had "no intention of evading taxes."
In a statement read out to the press by his lawyers, Ronaldo commented that the tax authorities have details of all of his income because he has never hidden his earnings.
The Algarve's rural municipality of Alcoutim is back in the news, this time the council has excelled itself by being the quickest payer in the Algarve, in fact it is the quickest payer in Portugal with bills taking matter of hours to be settled in full.
The Financial Yearbook of Portuguese Municipalities 2016, just published in July 2017, notes that "the municipality of Alcoutim continues to pay its suppliers almost at once."
A new Refood unit was opened last Saturday, July 29, in Almancil. The project won the funding in the parish Participatory Budget 2016 round of applications for local community projects.
The new modular unit is equipped with a kitchen and toilet and will support the work of the association as part of the Zero Waste Movement.
The regional government in Madeira is issuing an international tender for a weekly ferry service between the island’s capital and Portimão.
Madeira is offering a €3 million a year safety blanket for the operating company which will have to provide a cargo and passenger service with a journey time of less than 24-hours.
Several environmental organisations have called on the Portuguese Government to take a stand against deep-sea mining, saying that the prospects for profit, simply do not justify the environmental damage such destructive mining techniques cause.
Monica Verbeek from 'Seas at Risk,' to which several Portuguese environmental organisations now belong, said the government should proceed with caution at the annual International Seabed Authority conference from August 7th to 18th.
The van transporting Portuguese emigrants across France, crashing and leaving 12 of them dead, was speeding when it collided with an Italian meat lorry while trying to overtake.
The accident happened on March 24th, 2016 near Moulins, as twelve Portuguese emigrants from Switzerland were being transported to Portugal where they intended to spend their Easter holidays.
The Algarve’s hotel association claims there are vacancies for 5,000 people in the booming sector, but that low wages are dissuading candidates from applying.
The unions involved are campaigning for better wages and conditions for existing and new workers but it all seems to comes down to money.
