The snap election called just eight weeks ago in Andalusia will take place this Sunday.
Observers will be waiting anxiously for the outcome. Andalusia represents 20% of all voters in the country and the result may signal what will happen in elections scheduled for this year.
An employee at Clube Praia da Rocha, Portimão, resorted today to chaining herself inside the company office in a protest at not having been paid for months.
Many workers at the resort have not been paid by the managing company 'Green Stairs' whose administrator refuses to comment on the situation except for declaring that things are in hand, that was on March 3rd and nothing has happended since.
Google has admitted that it was wrong to let the hype about its wearable computer, Glass, get out of hand.
It said it had not done enough to explain that its product was only a prototype and not the finished product.
The management of the port of Sines and the Algarve has been displaying its wares at Cruise Shipping Miami, specifically to promote the Cruise Terminal of Portimão.
The event took place from 16 to 19 March and brought together more than 900 exhibitors representing 127 countries which have grasped the importance of this tourism sector, unlike Portugal.
The popularity of President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil has fallen dramatically just five months after she entered her second term.
More than two million people demonstrated recently and called for her impeachment. The protests took part in cities in all 27 states of Brazil, making it the largest political demonstration since military rule ended in 1985.
The General Secretary of the Socialist Party, António Costa, has commented that the Finance Minister might say that the country’s coffers are full, but the "Portuguese unfortunately have empty pockets.”
Finance Minister Maria Luís Albuquerque said on Wednesday that public debt "is indeed still very high, but today we have the comfort of knowing we have the full coffers."
Three masked men, at least one of them armed, robbed the watch shop 'Boutique dos Relógios' inside the Algarve Shopping centre in Guia yesterday evening.
The men entered the shop at around 19.30, one stayed near the door as look out and the other two forced staff to lie on the floor.
Europe’s largest budget airline, Ryanair, is to stay in Europe after all.
The company’s board had to admit that it is not considering flights to the US.
