One year ago, Portugal’s newspapers reacted to a ban on homosexual and bisexual blood donors - “unless they were celibate” being one of the more noteworthy utterances from the health ministry.
This week, clinical standards are 'being established' by the Directorate General for Health (DGS) but these have not yet been discussed with user groups and organisations.
The Algarvian former politician José Mendes Bota says the fact that there is a wave of politicians only now railing against oil and gas exploration in the Algarve is a ‘joke.’
Only now, claims Bota, are these politicians interested in giving interviews about their anti-oil credentials, but asks where they were years ago when his was the only voice raised against the original oil and gas licensing process.
Tremors caused by an earthquake under the ocean to the west of Peniche shook locals on the immediate west coast and as far away as Lisbon late this morning.
The shock was felt in several areas of the capital but is not known to have caused any injury.
British consumers have been buoying up the economy by spending.
Retail sales had dropped by nearly 1% in June amidst the uncertainty of the referendum that month.
Natural disasters around the globe cost the world economy $71 billion (€62 billion) in just the first half of this year, reinsurer Swiss Re said on Thursday.
The cost compared to the same period last year was up by 38%.
During the month of July, 3,553 people have been treated in 32 temporary health centers at the Algarve’s most popular beaches.
The units, set up by the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve in collaboration with the Portuguese Red Cross, are part of the summer plan to reduce the pressure on hospitals by treating minor injuries on site.
The 17-year-old twin sons of Saad Mohammed Ridha Ali, Iraq’s ambassador to Portugal, briefly were in police custody yesterday after attacking a 15-year-old Portuguese boy in Ponte de Sor, in the Alentejo.
The victim, Rúben Cavaco, has been placed in an induced coma in Lisbon’s Santa Maria hospital and is in a “grave condition” with serious head injuries. He later underwent surgery to start to reconstruct his face which had suffered multiple fractures.
Lawyer Manuel Fernandes says that the girly ads in Portugal’s newspapers are nothing more than an encouragement for prostitution and, as money is exchanged, the practice is illegal.
Three judges did not agree with him, stating that Portugal's newspapers were not breaking the law, so Fernandes is taking the matter to the highest court as the Portuguese constitution states that it is illegal to earn money from prostitution.
