A 26-year-old man is being tried this week on charges of qualified homicide and robbery, all relating to events last September when he went on a rampage.
He is accused of murdering Delmira Miranda, 84, in Faro and of assaulting two others at separate incidents at their in Olhão and Faro.
The two Olhão building inspectors who were handed suspended sentences, after being convicted for extorting money from property owners in exchange for ‘looking the other way’ over building regulation infringements, may end up in jail after all.
The Public Prosecution Service has appealed against the suspension of the two sentences for corruption and embezzlement handed out to the two women.
The long-running farce continues with Albufeira council launching another public tender for the design, construction and operation of a crematorium.
The company chosen will be responsible for the financing, design, construction and maintenance of the crematorium, as well as for the supply, installation, maintenance and repair of all equipment and, of course, for running the long-awaited facility.
A British woman has been badly injured in an acid attack in Alvor, Portimão.
Two members of the GNR also were injured after inhaling fumes as they aided her. It is not known if the woman was a tourist or an Algarve resident.
The 400 families living on the Ria Formosa island of Culatra at last have Socialist MPs’ support in trying to find out why power to their homes keeps being cut off.
The MP have questioned the government over these mysterious outages which seem to take ages to fix for no good reason.
The Algarve’s hotel sector had a cracking Easter with occupancy rates for April up 6% on the year before.
The Easter rush helped the region's hoteliers achieve the the best figures since 2000, according to the regional hotel association.
Portugal’s Finance Minster, Mario Centeno, could oversee Portugal becoming the first eurozone country to issue government bonds in ‘renmimbi,’ the currency of China.
"It's a way to broaden our investor base and attract funding," Centeno said at the end of a three-day visit to China.
In addition to meeting with the China’s central bank, the minister had meetings with the republic’s top financial institutions including the Agriculture Bank of China and the Postal Savings Bank of China.
Consumed by the thought of a Portuguese female, a Spanish-born lynx made a 170 kilometre dash to satisfy his ardour.
Mundo, a fine example of Spanish lynxhood, born in the Doñana area, made his way across the unmanned border to mate with Malva in Serpa.
