Since the decriminalisation of abortion in Portugal, only one woman has died as a result of the procedure and the number of abortions has dropped year-on-year.
Ten years after the Portuguese decided by referendum to decriminalise abortion up to the tenth weeks of pregnancy, data shows an end to maternal mortality.
A 51-year-old Brazilian man and a 19-year-old girl have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 83-year-old Guia pensioner last week.
Álvaro Paderna was discovered by his granddaughter’s husband last Thursday morning, tied to a chair, hand and foot, and clearly having received a savage beating about the head.
As the region fills with seasonal motorcaravans, the Algarve and Alentejo Campsite and Caravan Park Association demands that owners should be told to leave cliff-tops, beaches and forests.
The association has asked Vila do Bispo council to create "a system of physical barriers and information boards in various languages to prevent caravans from staying overnight on the cliffs, beaches and in the region’s pine forests."
Portugal's Finance Minister said on Monday that he had never denied that there had been an agreement with Caixa Geral's former chief, António Domingues, on changing his status of managing a public company, and that his place "is at the disposal" of the prime minister.
Mário Centeno called a press conference to clarify the controversy he created at Caixa Geral de Depósitos, namely on his correspondence with Caixa’s new, but short-lived, manager António Domingues and the conditions under which Domingues was invited to take head up the State-owned bank.
The court in Celorico da Beira, Guarda district, has free a Scottish woman whose husband’s body was found buried on their property near Celorico da Beira, Beja but said she must report to the police station at regular intervals until her trial.
The 46-year-old woman was detained last Thursday by the Judicial Police who suspect her of burying her husband's corpse on land at the rural property.
The average driver of a new leased car in Portugal spends between €477 and €525 per month over the first three years, according to the 2016 LeasePlan CarCost Index, with drivers in Norway and the Netherlands paying more.
Portugal is in the middle of the table of 24 European countries, with the overall cost of €477 per month for diesel cars and €525 for vehicles that run on petrol.
Olhão’s main seafront road, waterfront area to the south of the twin markets and one of its much cherished parks are to be ‘refurbished’ at a cost of €1.5 million.
Polis Litoral Ria Formosa’s board meeting agreed the work in Avenida 5 de Outubro, Jardim Patrão Joaquim Lopes and Jardim Pescador Olhanense along the Olhão waterfront and is expected to start this extensive and controversial redevelopment "by the end of October."
Prime Minister António Costa has backed himself into a corner by continuing to give his full support to his ‘dead man walking’ Finance Minister, Mário Centeno who it seems certain has lied to parliament over the Caixa Geral directors' statements affair.
The prime minister spent much of today highlighting the excellent work of his finance minister in ‘handling the deficit and stabilising the financial sector,’ referring to his colleague as a 'reference point for trust' while accusing his parliamentary opposition of dedicating themselves to trickery.
