The Communist party has taken up the case of the three sacked workers from Vilamoura’s Crowne Plaza hotel and has demanded a statement of how much public money the hotel’s owner recently has received from the public purse.
The three workers, who also are union members and activists, were sacked after management spotted them taking part in a demonstration that took place near the hotel on March 24, 2016 and handing out leafelts which were deemed to be subversive.
Many of the Algarve’s animal rescue and care associations have hit back at the plan by the region’s mayors to set up two ‘super kennels’ at which to collect unwanted and stray cats and dogs.
Fearing, amongst other scenarios, that the euthanasia rate would increase ‘behind closed doors’ and above the new limits set by recent welfare legislation, the animal rescue groups and privately operated shelters want to halt the council’s plan for the new centres in Alcoutim and Aljezur.
Unemployed people in Finland are to be handed €560 every month as the government embarks on a two-year social experiment.
The trial incorporates 2,000 jobless people selected randomly to receive the monthly basic income from the beginning of January 2017.
In an election year announcement, Albufeira council has confirmed it is to fund the construction of three more old people’s homes.
One will be built in Olhos d'Água, another in Fontainhas, Ferreiras and the third will be in Albufeira.
In Europe, 80% of Roma live below the poverty line. According to a report from the European Agency for Fundamental Rights, 30% of Europe’s Roma families live in homes without drinking water and 46% do not have a home with an indoor bath or shower, only 30% have paid work and only 53% of Roma children attend pre-primary school.
The report shows the results of the second Minorities and Discrimination in the European Union survey for which 25,500 people from various ethnic minorities were interviewed and parameters used including poverty and social exclusion, jobs, education, knowledge of rights and discrimination.
The GNR in Vila Real de Santo António have detained a 51-year-old man on suspicion of burglary at a residence in Monte Gordo.
Out on patrol, the GNR officers approached and arrested the individual, a well known local drug supplier and user who habitually steals from properties to boost his personal cash-flow in pursuance of a lifestyle of feckless irresponsibility.
The former Caixa Geral de Depósitos president, António Domingues, has refused to stay on "for another few days" contrary to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance, published last Friday.
It was essential that Domingues stayed on until the succession of Paulo Macedo has been confirmed by the European Central Bank but he has left the chairman’s office empty and the State-owned bank close to rudderless with just four directors remaining.
In a characteristically gloomy weather forecast, the Portuguese weather service has found it necessary to post warnings of rain, snow, high winds, troubled seas and rain.
After a period of sunny and mostly calm weather over the Christmas and New Year holiday period, despite hopes for a pleasant year ahead, the party is over and from today, "the scene will change."
