The Águas de Portugal group is to spend €18 million between now and the year 2020 to double its renewable energy production and shear €5 million a year off its electricity bill.
The State-owned company has announced an Energy Efficiency and Production Plan which outlines a renewable energy production target of 50 Gigawatt hours, more than double its current production.
The Sagres lifeboat crew helped deal with the carcass of a 12-metre-long whale that was spotted floating in the sea off Baleeira and endangering shipping.
According to the Maritime Authority, the adult whale was spotted by the crew of a fishing vessel which alerted the authorities.
Officers from the Judicial Police have made an arrest in Madeira related to the Alvor acid attack that left a British travel rep seriously injured.
Cláudio Gouveia, Eleanor Chessell’s former lover, has been arrested for attempted homicide, according to a statement from the Portimão PJ.
The Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, Fernando Rocha Andrade, said to a committee of inquiry into tax evasion that we really shouldn’t expect too much from the Panama Papers, nor from the €10 billion transferred from Portugal, that went undetected due to a ‘mistake.’
Andrade revealed today in Brussels that the Portuguese Tax Authority is 'aware' that there are 165 taxpayers in Portugal uncovered in the Panama Papers and that when the Tax Authority was alerted, it immediately joined an OECD working group ‘to exchange information and methods.’
The first thing you’ll notice upon entering the anatomical theatre at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine is the lone pickled head, up on a shelf next to a diaphonized hand. It’s yellow, peaceful-looking, and somewhat akin to a potato.
The various physicians and anatomy technicians in the preceding hallway all address it with a mix of familiarity and indifference. It’s just there, really. Just the head of Diogo Alves, whose claims to fame include being both Portugal’s first serial killer and the last man to be hanged.
The depreciation of the pound against the euro has not stopped tourists from the UK continuing to travel to euro destinations with spending in Portugal up a pleasing 10%. Other destinations, notably France, Turkey and Egypt, are experiencing sharply lower numbers.
Algarve tourism business owners have been surprised that, despite a post-Brexit depreciation in the pound against the euro, the reduction in the purchasing power held by UK tourists has not caused a decline in bookings nor in daily spend when Brits are let loose with their holiday cash.
MAR Shopping Algarve, part of the IKEA complex in Loulé, will open on September 27th following the IKEA store opening on March 30th.
The slightly delayed opening is ‘within the time set,’ according to IKEA’s management and certainly is bang on time compared to the normal delays, measured in years, for other of the Algarve’s building and infrastructure projects.
Crack teams of Tax and Customs Authority operatives have been scouring the country's high streets to pin down tax evaders.
The May 25th purge was not aimed at offshore account holders, property owners illegally letting their luxury properties or millionaire market traders selling counterfeit goods, the target was 6,000 hairdressers to check whether or not they were issuing receipts.
