Filipe Silva, the Public Security Police officer, famous for being caught on camera as he attacked a member of the public with a baton outside a football stadium, is up for promotion.
The incident took place during the Benfica’s championship victory match against Guimarães in May 2015.
Portugal's former prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, was in the Algarve over the weekend in a vain attempt to position himself as the region’s champion over the Via do Infante tolls situation.
Tolls were introduced by the Passos Coelho coalition government amid howls of complaint from the Algarve’s road users who rightly pointed out that the motorway had largely been built using EU funds and was constructed to improve the region’s economy by speeding the journey time between east and west.
Temperatures will fall between four and nine degrees Celsius from Wednesday in mainland Portugal, due to a cold, dry mass of Arctic air.
According to the ever-cheerful Maria João Frada, a meteorologist at the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA), Monday and Tuesday will be cold and cloudy in central and northern parts of the country and clear in the south but on Wednesday until at least Friday or Saturday it will get seriously cold, for Portugal anyway.
The new UN representative for Food and Agriculture in Portugal, Francisco Sarmento, considers the creation of a food safety council as a priority in the fight against obesity and to get farmers back into the fields.
The Portuguese Government has already indicated in informal talks with Sarmento that it will give priority to the idea, but would go no further than that at this stage.
Lisbon, Faro and Braga are the three districts leading a surge in house prices across the nation.
The pace of house price increases has not been seen since the distant days of 2001.
In a candid interview, Health Minister Adalberto Campos Fernandes has suggested that Portugal’s health service suffers losses through fraud and theft of €900 million a year, or around 10% of the annual budget.
Promising that many cases of fraud will be revealed soon, the minister stated that, "Many are under investigation and, in the coming days, they will naturally come to light," in an interview with Diário de Notícias.
Paulo Campos, the former president of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) has given the Judicial Police a computer file containing notes he took of a meeting in 2014 with Paulo Macedo.
The soon-to-be president of Caixa Geral, Macedo, then was the Minister of Health and the notes record him allegedly demanded the elevation of Helena Lalanda e Castro to a more senior position at INEM where she already was a director.
The Algarve had a record year for tourism in 2016, "but there still is room for growth," according to regional tourism boss, Desidério Silva.
There is potential from new markets, such the US, but the fact that TAP does not provide many connections to Faro airport is hindering the arrival of more tourists to the region.
