The GNR have made four arrests for drug trafficking, one of the men is a businessman in the clothing game who has been a hashish importer for years.
The GNR arrested the men in Quarteira and found they successfully had nabbed the local Mr Big whom they had been tracking and who has been wholesaling hashish to other dealers in the Algarve and in Setúbal.
Unemployment in the eurozone dropped marginally to 11.1% in April from 11.2% in March and is down from 11.7% in April 2014.
The jobless problem has eased somewhat in Portugal dropping to 13% from the 14.6% recorded in April last year. Nevertheless, although the number has reduced, there are still 668,000 people in the country estimated to be without work.
Everyone shopping at Zara or any of its sister shops has contributed to making its owner the second richest person in the world.
Spanish retail magnate Amancio Ortega has knocked Warren Buffett out of second place on the Bloomberg ranking of the world´s richest people.
Irate lawyers in Portugal are on the point of suing the state for unpaid legal aid biils.
Justice Minister Paula Teixeira da Cruz admits that there are payment arrears of €15.2 million but, true to form, blames the Secretary for the Budget, Hélder Reis.
Lisbon has the fourth highest growth rate in Europe for foreign visitors, but nobody knows what they are doing.
There will be an estimated 3.56 million foreign visitors to Portugal’s capital this year, spending €1.620 billion.
This total spend is way behind the big cities of London or Paris of course, but is a credible performance with numbers growing 8% per year since 2012.
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term.
Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials.
Faro airport has crawled into the modern age and now offers free unlimited Wi-Fi.
Long a complaint from travellers using the Algarve’s airport, free Wi-Fi also will be offered in the other nine airports managed by French-owned ANA, including those in Madeira and the Azores.
Government heads cannot seem to help themselves from playing out the TAP negotiations in the public arena despite the final two bidders requiring calm and quiet as they work on their enhanced bids.
The Minister for the Economy, António Pires de Lima, today issued a "friendly warning" to Germán Efromovich and David Neeleman, the two remaining bidders for the state airline, suggesting that they make their "best efforts" to provide "the best offer" by the end of Friday.
