The hot weather has started with temperatures in the high 30s across the Algarve region.
The forecast from the often prescient Portuguese weather service suggests the following maximum temperatures this week in the various municipalities of the region:
Albufeira’s mayor, Carlos Silva e Sousa, is delighted, as will be the local population, that the city's abandoned courthouse is to be turned into an arts and crafts centre.
The building was constructed in the late 1800s and served as a courthouse until 1992 when Albufeira's Palace of Justice opened next to the Town Hall.
The Angolan Justice Minister says he is stunned over the disrespect shown to by Portugal’s Public Prosecutor's Office - in fact he is ‘astonished’ that the Portuguese Public Prosecutor's Office had moved on in its investigation involving the Angolan Vice President, Manuel Vicente, (pictured left) without hanging around for Angola to decide whether to help or not.
"I am astonished and even disbelieving in this situation that demonstrates a certain disrespect for our judicial authorities, and in particular for the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Angola," said Rui Mangueira, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights of a country that demonstrates little of either.
First, there was the study into motorcaravans in the Algarve. This was released in January 2014 after seven years work with the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR Algarve) announcing it had "established a protocol" with the region’s mayors and the regional tourist board.
The agreement aimed “to create and promote the Autocaravan Support Network in the Algarve Region” and covered an inadequate 26 campsites and service areas.
Moving Portugal’s Air Force from its Montijo airbase to make way for Lisbon’s planned second airport will cost an estimated €372 million.
The government chose the Montijo air base solution, rather a second airport in Sintra or Alverca, or building a completely new airport at Alcohete, on logistical, cost and speed grounds - all of which rapidly are eroding.
Banco Popular remains open for business in Spain and Portugal after 100% of Banco Popular’s shares were bought yesterday by Santander for a symbolic €1.
The transfer has been pitched as ‘part of a resolution measure’ after the European Central Bank determined that the financial institution was not viable, giving it a damning "failing or likely to fail" vedict.
António Guterres, the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, opened the Oceans Conference on Monday, June 5th and emphasised the need to conserve the oceans and to use them in a sustainable way.
"The health of our oceans and seas requires us to put aside short-term national gain, to avoid long-term global catastrophe.”
António Domingues was paid over €120,000 in the four months he was in charge of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, according to the 2016 annual report from the State owned bank.
Domingues was paid a salary of €30,214 per month between September and December last year, significantly more than José de Matos, who was president of the bank until August 31, 2016 and who struggled by on €16,578 a month.
