A GNR patrol arrested a man who was stealing from hotel rooms in Albufeira.
The 31-year-old was caught after reports of thefts were acted on by a GNR patrol in the early hours of Wednesday, May 3. GRN personnel caught the man red-handed inside one of the hotel rooms.
Tireless Communist Party MP, Paulo Sá, has questioned the Minister of the Environment about a new hotel planned to be almost on the beach at Monte Gordo.
The council is all for the project and a green light is expected from Portuguese Environment Agency to allow the 'Meliá de Monte Gordo' hotel to be built.
Lagoa council solved the problem of local gypsy families, considered too unruly to continue to be housed in local council accommodation, by moving them to a landfill site on the outskirts of Porches, Lagoa.
The situation has been dragging on since early April when gypsy families were given use of council land in Porches without the consent of the President of the local parish council, Sr Luís Bentes.
The environmental organisation, Almargem, has organised a morning of activities at Lagoa dos Salgados between Galé and Armação de Pêra, the beautiful nature reserve that remains threatened by a 539 hectare tourist complex that includes hotels, golf courses and apartment complexes all authorised by Silves council.
On May 13th, a walk to look at the birds and plants (9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.), and a rubbish collection drive will occupy the morning.
A Communist Party member of Cascais Council has been arrested and taken away in handcuffs for trying to protect an area of Ecological Reserve from bulldozers that had started to construct a car park.
Clemente Alves was at a demonstration to prevent the construction of the 200-vehicle parking area and denies resisting the police: he will appear in Cascais court tomorrow.
Airbnb's economic impact on Portugal was €1.07 billion last year with a new survey from the company showing 1.6 million people booking through the website during 2016.
Founded in 2008, the company handled €72 million in rental income for Lisbon plus a further €404 million was spent locally in the capital - the most popular place chosen for short breaks.
Uber Technologies Inc. has lost in Portugal’s appeal court to Antral, the taxi drivers union, in the latest in a bizarre series of hearings as this American company does not operate in Portugal.
While waiting for legislation to be processed through parliament to ensure Uber BV in the Netherlands, the company that runs the Portuguese operation, can establish and develop the app based transport service with the government’s blessing, Antral has been pursuing Uber Inc since 2015 even though its lawyers are after the wrong company.
This weekend's Lagoa Wine Show again was ruined by noise with a speaker system leaving exasperated exhibitors and a scattering of visitors shouting at each other and still not being heard.
The argument still rages over Lagoa council’s unilateral decision to call its area ‘The Capital of Wines,’ but as for the show, this third attempt was as poor as the previous two with organisers failing to listen to last year’s feedback and attempting to run a show at which nobody can be heard.
