A people trafficker apprehended in Italy has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for causing a shipwreck in 2013 in which 366 people perished.
A court in Sicily convicted Khaled Bensalem, 36, from Tunisia, of causing the shipwreck and the deaths as well as aiding illegal immigration, according to a judicial source.
Impoverished Silves council has handed €30,000 to the church in Armaçao de Pêra to help pay for repairs and renovations.
The President of Silves Câmara, Rosa Palma, delivered the check to the parish priest, Fr Joaquim Beato.
Portugal’s Council of Ministers today approved the re-appointment of Carlos Costa for a second five-year term as governor of the Bank of Portugal.
In a press conference at the end of today’s cabinet meeting, the Minister of the Presidency, Luís Marques Guedes, said that the appointment was made following Carlos Costa’s report to Parliament about the Bank of Portugal’s actions prior to the BES collapse, and a report on that hearing having being discussed by the Council.
Five years ago Portugal switched to a ‘care in the community’ model for the care of its mental health patients, this allowed the ministry to close Portugal specialist mental health units.
The result has been that only one in five patients in need of treatment ‘in the community’ actually receives any care and support at all.
The local GNR already has a list of crowd members who witnessed the Mourão cat burning incident. The culprits will be found.
The District of Bragança GNR Command said today that its officers are continuing in their efforts to identify from the list those responsible for the Saint John's day ‘traditional’ cat burning incident.
The culprits will be interviewed with a view to prosecution using Portugal’s new animal protection laws.
Portimão council has scuppered plans by Butwell Trading to build a tourist development at Quinta da Rocha by the river at Alvor.
The council executive voted "immediately to suspend the current proposal" from Butwell to the delight of eco-organisations and members of the public who have campaigned for years against the destruction of the natural riverside habitat by companies controlled by Aprígio Santos (pictured), millionaire property developer, football club owner and eco-vandal.
Lagos: 1.48 kilometres, a cost of €3.47 million and happiness at last for motorists who now can use the new road that links the Praia da Luz to the Fonte Coberta roundabouts which takes the pressure of the busy city of Lagos.
The construction under Rotas do Algarve Litoral was meant to be finished “at the latest by April” - so July 1st is not bad.
Six Algarve business associations are entering a third injunction against the construction of a commercial complex near Loulé which includes an IKEA store.
The president of the Trade and Services Association of the Algarve Region (ACRAL) contests the size of the 40 hectare project and the environmental impact study paid for and presented by IKEA, as he considers the construction of the commercial complex “affects the Algarve.”
