A new citizens movement to save what is left of Faro’s old buildings has been established by local architect Filipe Monteiro and 'heritage activist' Fernando Silva Grade.
The first public meeting to discuss the destruction of some of the Algarve’s most notable vernacular buildings will be held on Friday, May 5 under the crystal clear heading 'No to the destruction of what remains of the architectural heritage of Faro.'
The Ministers of the Environment and Foreign Affairs have been called to parliament to explain the rigged report on Spain’s ancient Almaraz nuclear power station - a report that concluded that there was no problem at all with the building of additional facilities for storing nuclear waste next to the Tagus river, even though it then flows through Portugal as the 'Tejo'.
The demand for an urgent hearing came from the Left Bloc, which said today that the government's decision, expressed in the Portuguese Environment Agency report, was seriously unacceptable.
Two threatened species of fish that inhabit the Odelouca river in Silves have received a welcome boost to their numbers, courtesy of environmental organisation Quercus as part of the ‘in situ’ project.
About 600 young fish have been set free after being reared in captivity and now are swimming freely along the Odelouca river in the Alferce area of Monchique.
The Public Security Police and the GNR are expected to start certifying trainers to train owners of dangerous dog by the end of the second quarter of this year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced today, which offered no apology for the four year delay.
The Public Security Police and the GNR are responsible for the certification and training of these potentially dangerous animals but neither entity has been able to run a course since the new laws came into play in 2013.
The Securities Commission of Brazil has fined the former president of Oi over statements he made to the media in Brazil in March 2014.
The regulator fined Zeinal Bava 200,000 reais (about €58,000) for statements made while a public offering of the telecoms operator was in progress.
Portugal’s Environment Agency considers it "appropriate and safe" to build a nuclear fuel dump at the creaking Almaraz nuclear power plant in Spain.
The president of the Portuguese Environment Agency admitted that trans-boundary impacts were not even considered when looking at the planned fuel dump, nor did the agency consider the effects on Portugal should there be a severe accident at the Almaraz power station which stands just 100 kilometres from the Portuguese border.
An online petition to save the life of a Rottweiler which attacked and badly injured a four-year-old girl in Matosinhos on Tuesday, already has over 8,000 signatures.
The petitioners want the dog to live and state that it the owners of dogs that should be punished, not the animal.
Portugal's government has decided to give public sector employees the day off on May 12th to mark the Pope’s arrival in the country in preparation for Saturday and Sunday’s celebrations in Fátima to mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions.
The extra day’s holiday has not gone down well with some Socialist Party MPs who rightly point out that the celebrations are not until the Saturday and question why there should be a day off on the preceding Friday.
