After a two year wait, the GNR and Public Security police are to carry out the first evaluation tests to certify trainers of potentially dangerous dogs.
The certification process will start in September, about two years after the dangerous dogs decree law was published.
The Judicial Police service is investigating the violent death of a taxi driver on Tuesday night, July 11, who was gunned down in the entrance area of a restaurant cafe in Cabeça de Ferro, Monchique.
The incident occurred around 10:30 pm, at the ‘A Fonte’ restaurant after an argument broke out and one of the men went to his car to get a shotgun, returned and fired it at whom he thought was the cafe owner, but in fact was the taxi driver.
The delay in bringing Operation Marquês to a close and the listing of charges and a trial date for the former Prime Minister, José Sócrates, has been extended by the Attorney General, Joana Marques Vidal.
The reason now given is that the prosecution team, led by prosecutor Rosário Teixeira, has yet to receive replies to certain key letters rogatory that are needed to complete the financial picture of illicit funds, cash payments and illegal offshore transfers.
A man died in the early hours of Tuesday while illegally fishing underwater in the Ria Formosa near Fuseta, Olhão.
Alone, unmarked, at 01.40 a.m in a zone where swimming underwater to catch fish is strictly banned, the man was hit by a passing pleasure boat close to the pier.
Spain and Portugal have reached an agreement to centralised the purchases of drugs to improve their healthcare delivery systems.
Spain's Health Minister, Dolors Montserrat, and his Portuguese counterpart, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, have agreed to reinforce the collaboration of both countries in the health field, which "will benefit 60 million people."
The sale of the real estate side of Herdade de Comporta is reported to have been arranged with Ardma Imobiliária, a company controlled by oil magnate, Pedro Almeida and a group of Portuguese partners.
The luxury west coast estate, long referred to as 'the jewel in the crown' of the Espírito Santo clan, is being sold off in highly mysterious circumstances and ‘at a symbolic price’ despite being worth hundreds of millions on the open market.
In exchange for a loan to pay off their debts, many Portuguese families have ended up losing their homes.
Homeowners have been signing documents that they think are mortgages but in fact these are contracts of purchase and sale.
The former head of legal services at Banco Espírito Santo, Rui Silveira, said in court on Monday that BES depositors were covered because the bank left provisions to reimburse everyone.
The lawyer coordinated the Legal Department of BES and advised the Board of Directors between 1992 and 2000. He then advised the board of directors until the bank went bust in August 2014.
