A 46-year-old Spanish holidaymaker is in intensive care in Faro after plunging three floors onto concrete from an Albufeira hotel.
The 10-metre fall happened at the four-star Real Bellavista shortly after midnight on Monday (April 10).
According to Spanish authorities, they have “never seen anything like it”.
A thousand Portuguese students on an organised school trip to celebrate the looming end of their 12th year studies apparently went on a destructive rampage through a Torremolinos hotel, leaving a trail of damages stretching well into the many thousands of euros.
Newspaper reports say the hotel will be giving a press conference tomorrow.
Jailbreak fugitive Joaquim Bitton Matos continues to cause havoc over social media. After posing with an M4 rifle on Facebook and boasting that the authorities could never find him (click here), he has now been conversing with journalists - allegedly telling them that prison guards at Caxias jail, near Lisbon, were complicit in his escape seven weeks ago.
According to reports, Matos has given reporters the names of four prison guards who not only took bribes to look the other way, but smuggled “special material” into cells to enable Matos and two Chileans to make their high-profile escapes.
Portugal’s much-loved and now former political leader famous for what one European newspaper called his “teflon qualities” (“the dirt has never stuck”) is suddenly back in the hotseat, accused by a construction company of using his “influence” to win a €20 million project for the company that currently employs him.
According to the story carried by multiple news sources, Portas allegedly brought pressure to bear on an initial evaluation which favoured Ourém company Tecnorém over eight other bids - including a pitch from engineering giant Mota-Engil.
‘People’s tabloid’ Correio da Manhã has injected a shot of intrigue into plans for a €63 million solar plant to be run by two former EDP directors on a property in Bensafrim, in the western Algarve.
The plans have recently been open for the statutory period of public consultation, which closed last Friday.
Bloco do Esquerda MPs João Vasconcelos and Jorge Costa have already queried the venture, suggesting it will cost taxpayers as much as a €100 million over 20 years (click here).
With the hot weather returning, along with memories of last year’s horrendous forest fires, AMAL - the association of Algarve councils - has decided to get pro-active over the inconvenient truth that less and less young people are coming forwards to train as firefighters.
At their meeting last Friday, the region’s mayors heard that the Algarve urgently needs to attract 300 new ‘bombeiros’ - as quickly as possible.
British low-cost airline Jet2 has launched a new year-round air link from London’s Stansted Airport to Funchal, Madeira.
Flights are on Monday and Friday with prices starting at £35.
Following reports that judicial authorities were “considering the extradition of the vice president of Angola” over corruption allegations, the Attorney General’s office has issued a statement attempting to take the heat out of what has become a gathering diplomatic storm.
Issued through State news agency Lusa, the statement insists that at “no moment was the extradition of Manuel Vicente requested”.
