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.
Companies controlled by Portugal’s richest man and Angola’s wealthiest woman have lost more than €100 million on the sale of Galp shares.
The holding company, Amorim Energia, owned 55% by Américo Amorim and 45% by Angolan oil company Sonangol and Isabel dos Santos, yesterday sold 5% of Galp Energia for €484.69 million.
Portugal is one of the top European countries when it comes to compassion towards Syrian refugees and a willingness to offer them new homes.
In an international poll released today by the non-governmental organisation International Rescue Committee (IRC), of the respondents from Portugal, 21% were ‘greatly in favour’ of hosting Syrian refugees in Portugal, with 46% saying they were ‘in favour.’
There has been no change for Portugal from Standard & Poor's which has kept its debt rating at BB+, and the outlook as 'stable.'
The agency forecasts a decelerating economic recovery with the government committed to policies that support a better balance in the public accounts.
Greenland’s vast ice sheet began melting faster and earlier this year aided by record-breaking warm weather, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute.
Around 12% of the ice sheet starting melting a month earlier than had been the case in earlier years.
The mother of missing toddler Ben Needham has been told to “prepare for the worst” by detectives who suspect the toddler may have died 25 years ago in an accident with a digger and was buried by the driver.
Forensics teams are to begin excavating at two sites close to where Ben was last seen as he played near his grandparents' home on Kos in 1991.
