Portugal’s Prosecutor's Office is to pursue its investigation into the assault on Rúben Cavaco, the young man from Ponte de Sor so savagely beaten up by the Iraqi Ambassador’s twin sons last August.
The investigation will continue, despite an out-of-court agreement announced between the parties, a source in the Attorney General's Office has revealed.
The online platform 'Adelaide.farm', was launched on Wednesday, January 11th, at the Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Algarve, Patacão, Faro, to allow small producers to sell their products "at fair prices," delivering them to local points for collection by householders.
The project aims to "solve the problem of the disappearance of small farmers", although it could also cover large producers, explained its promoter, Alice Teixeira, who also wants to help stop the increasing abandonment of agricultural activity due to lack of economic viability.
Paulo Lalanda e Castro was heard at the Court of Criminal Investigation in Lisbon on Wednesday, accused, along with Luís Cunha Ribeiro, the former president of the emergency ambulance service INEM, of using Ribeiro’s influence to unduly benefit Octapharma by ripping-off the State for hunderds of millions of euros.
The lawsuit has three more defendants, two lawyers and the former head of the Portuguese Hemophilia Association.
Between 200 and 300 people demonstrated on a freezing cold Thursday evening in front of the Spanish consulate in Lisbon against the Almaraz nuclear power plant and its planned nuclear waste dump.
The protest was attended by private citizens, ecologists and politicians from both Portugal and Spain.
Social Democrat MPs have questioned the government over the "postponement of essential safety work to the Guadiana bridge."
Algarve MPs José Carlos Barros and Cristóvão Norte have asked about the "successive and unacceptable" postponement of maintenance and rehabilitation work at the Guadiana International Bridge.
The Vilamoura Marina in the Loulé council area has won the International Marina of Distinction: 2015-2017 awarded by The Yacht Harbor Association. The announcement was made today at the London Boat Show.
The awards is the top one for ‘International Marinas’ with Vilamoura winning the top slot three years running.
The Minister for Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, re-launched the western Algarve section of roadworks today as if it was something we should be grateful for.
The work, that should have been finished years ago, now has a completion date of ‘the end of June 2017’ which inevitably will run on into the summer season accompanied by a range of increasingly improbable excuses.
Today’s long-overdue meeting in Madrid, between Spain and Portugal’s Ministers of the Environment concerning the proposed nuclear waste dump at Spain’s Almaraz power station, ended early today with zero progress.
"Portugal is going to ask Brussels to intervene. If there is a dispute, it has to be resolved by European bodies," said the Portuguese Environment Minister after the leaving the meeting with his Spanish counterpart, Isabel García Tejerina, and the Minister of Energy, Álvaro Nadal.
