The Algarve’s council chiefs are appalled at changes to the Odeceixe to Vilamoura coastal plan recently presented as a fait accompli by Sebastião Teixeira, the reviled president of the Algarve Environmental Agency.
The mayors, under the unifying banner of their association, AMAL, have accused the Environment Agency of simply ignoring their contributions to the coastal plan.
A widow living in an area of Porches, Lagoa to the north of the EN125 was discovered lifeless in her swimming pool on Friday morning, September 9th.
Sheila Grollman, who was aged 72, is thought to have gone for a dip on Thursday evening and likely suffered a heart attack.
Plastic eating utensils are to be outlawed in France by 2020.
Items such as plastic cutlery, cups and crockery are being targeted by the new law unless they are made from biologically-sourced materials and that they can be composted.
The 2016 - 2017 concert season sponsored by Algarve History Association began on Sunday, September 11th with a recital of twenty Songs from the Heart, given by two young Algarvian singers.
Beatriz Miranda (pictured below) from Faro and Andrés Feliu from Tavira (ably supported by American pianist/conductor Tyler Catlin) sang a variety of classics for an enthusiastic audience.
Portuguese bonds reeled from their worst day since June on Friday, before a ratings review that will serve as a prelude for a more crucial test of the country's creditworthiness next month, according to a report by Reuters.
Standard and Poor's did not alter its junk rating for Portugal on Friday. But any warnings on its economy, such as those from Portugal's budget watchdog on Thursday, may feed fears that DBRS will remove the country's last investment-grade rating, which Lisbon needs to qualify for ECB bond purchases on Oct. 21.
Bringing shame to the uniform, a former volunteer firefighter of fourteen years standing has been arrested and charged with starting 16 fires in Proença-a-Nova in the Castelo Branco region.
The 46-year-old was arrested by the Judicial Police who said the man is implicated in the deliberate setting of multiple forest fires between July and September this year.
A public meeting at the parish council of Ferrarias, Silves, on Thurday evening had to be moved to the nearby and larger football ground hall as so many people turned up to protest at plans to house several Roma families on farm land which backs onto existing private properties.
The plan promoted to the parish council by Portugal’s Misericordia charitable institution is to assemble nine prefabricated houses with concrete foundations for 39 individuals on farm land near the point where the N269 passes over the IC1 by Malhada Velha.
Portugal’s Prime Minister, António Costa, has entered the shark-infested waters of EU diplomacy by demanding a written response from the Commission President about the ‘Barroso privileges’ row.
The PM said today that he has asked for clarification from the President of the European Commission on the treatment that the EU executive decided to give to their former-President, José Manuel Barroso.
