The Portuguese man arrested on suspicion of killing a Briton at his Alcoutim home, has been sentenced to 14 years and six months in jail by a court in Vila Real de Santo António.
Eugénio Reicha was accused of stabbing the British expatriate, Simon Carley-Pocock, 58, with a spear in his home in Serro da Vinha, Pereiro.
The Ferragudo lifeboat has been called out to rescue a boat, drifting towards rocks, with children on board.
An SOS was received by the Portimão Maritime Police, at 19:30 on Tuesday evening.
Silves council has decided that the unsightly junction boxes standing in its streets should be covered with artwork.
So unattractive are these ugly impositions that Silves decided that boxes across the council area should be covered with plastic film featuring something more attractive than bird droppings and graffiti.
Alcoutim council has commissioned work to lay 21 kilometres of new water pipes to reach many outlying villages that currently use wells and boreholes for their supply.
The investment of around €1 million comes under the amusingly named, PO SEUR scheme (Operational Programme for Sustainability and Efficiency in the Use of Resources), and will take mains water to Alcaria Alta, Azinhal, Castelhanos, Diogo Dias, Fonte Zambujo, Fonte Zambujo de Cima, Laborato, Martim Longo, Pão Duro, Pessegueiro, Tacões, Tremelgo de Baixo and Tremelgo de Cima.
Algarve Nature Week started today, Friday May 5th, launched in Tavira which is acting as the focal point for a range of activities relating to ‘off-season’ tourism which the region is striving to promote.
Organised by the Algarve’s tourism board, 26 companies and other exhibitors will provide more than 80 activities.
Despite abstentions from the Algarve’s spineless and democratically unrepresentative Social Democratic Party, a motion to end tolls on the A22 was approved at the Intermunicipal Assembly of the Algarve.*
The motion "For the suspension of tolls on the Via do Infante" was presented by the Left Bloc and was approved on April 26th, despite seven feeble abstentions from the PSD.
A Financial Times article today was all about the optimism of international investors regarding the return from investment in Portuguese bonds.
Philip Brown, a specialist in public debt at Citi Bank, says Portuguese debt is the only one in the eurozone with a return this year, at 3.9%, and sees "huge upside potential here."
The Maritime Police and specially trained Marines have been called in to help monitor Portugal’s beaches and to support port captains after the fifth drowning in just a few days over the long weekend.
From today, until the official start of the bathing season, police and Navy personnel will be helping out as a general warning has been issued about dangerous and unpredictable sea conditions.
