There have been 16 further arrests in the Air Force food fiddle in which military personnel agreed inflated prices with suppliers to military camps and split the difference.
An estimated €10 million in two years has been skimmed by crooked Air Force personnel and the arrests on Wednesday follow five arrests in November 2016 as Operation Zeus started. (Click HERE for Nov 2016 report.)
The Ministry of the Environment, led by the struggling João Matos Fernandes, fresh from a further round of demolitions on the Ria Formosa islands, is perfectly OK about the building of luxury villas in the ecologically sensitive sand dunes at Galé beach.
The ministry has stated that the projects for the construction of luxury beachside villas of Praia da Galé Oeste is “in accordance with the Burgau-Vilamoura Coastal Development Plan with respect to private land, outside the maritime public domain.”
London based mining company, Savannah Resources, has struck high-grade lithium oxide at the exploratory drilling stage the Mina do Barroso lithium project.
Savannah, valued at around £30 million, now owns 75% of Slipstream Resources Portugal which holds the mining licence for Mina do Barroso in the very north of the country near the Spanish border.
Keen to attract dog-owning voters, Olhão’s mayor, António Pina, has announced the opening of a €69,000 dog exercise and play area in Pinheiros de Marim.
Some 4,000 m2 has been set aside for dogs with a fun play area of 800m2 filled with ramps, tunnels and jumps.
Manuel Pinho has been made a defendant in the EDP 'excessive profits' case but there seems to be little useable evidence against him, so far.
The lawyer acting for Pinho, the Minister of the Economy in the José Sócrates administration, requested the ‘arguido’ status be lifted as his client had turned up at the police station on Monday to be interviewed but claims not to have been asked any questions.
Two women have suffered separate serious attack in the Algarve. The victims, aged 25 and 29, managed to escape a man who struck in the space of three days..
One of the women had to receive hospital treatment after being assaulted in the pedestrian area of Olhão's historic centre in the early hours of June 30th.
Five years ago, the mayor of Aljezur was sentenced to three and a half years in jail and the loss of his job.
This prison sentence was suspended if he paid €5,000 to a local environmental organisation but the loss of his job would stand, whether he paid the money or not.
It’s a lack of houses on the market. This is the summary from the monthly Portuguese Housing Market Survey conducted by Confidencial Imobiliário and RICS. “The housing shortage continues to be one of the main factors influencing the market in a scenario of growing demand.”
"For the agents interviewed, the shortage of supply is the main constraint on their activity and also the main factor determining the evolution of prices. This situation should dominate the trends in the coming months," explains Ricardo Guimarães, Director of Confidencial Imobiliário.
