The Mayor of Portimão, Isilda Gomes, has been out and about visiting two important local business ratepayers at new tourist projects in and around Portimão.
The first was the refurbished Bela Vista Hotel in Praia da Rocha which was transformed from a 1918 mansion into an hotel in 1934 and needed doing again.
Britain’s new minimum wage will be £6.50 an hour from October 1, 2014.
This represents an increase of 19p per hour for adults.
The government of Spain has declared that a referendum vote in the Catalonia region on independence would be “anti-democratic”.
Unlike the UK where such a vote over the future of Scotland was allowed, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he has appealed to Spain’s Constitutional Court to prevent the plebiscite.
The Ministry of Finance has informed Portugal’s councils that those which decided that its staff working hours should remain at 35 hours a week, rather than adopt the 40 hour week as decreed in a new labour law, are in fact breaking the law.
Councils thought they had found a loophole in the legislation by entering into a collective bargaining arrangement with unions representing council workers and thus could stick to the 35 hour working week.
Tavira was one of 32 municipalities in Portugal that reached the standard required to receive an ECO XXI award handed out by the Blue Flag Association of Europe.
Tavira exceeded the goals set in 2013 and won a flag, a medal and a diploma of good practice for its work towards sustainability at a local level, particularly relating to environmental quality, eco-awareness and education.
A man who dressed and acted like a tourist in order to get into hotel rooms and steal valuables has been arrested by the GNR.
Having nabbed the man who targeted hotels in and around Albufeira, GNR officers got four more names of men who now are wanted for robbery.
The danger period for forest fires in Portugal is officially over for 2014 and the numbers are in, showing that the cooler than normal summer helped keep the figure to 7,000 reported fires, the lowest for ten years.
The amount of land damaged by fire was lower too with a third less burnt this year than last but landowners still lost 19,021 hectares.
Portugal’s wolf population is on the increase, especially in the zone south of the Douro and north of the Tagus.
The chairman of Portugal’s Grupo Lobo, or Wolf Group, Francisco Fonseca said that the wolf population is increasing in Portugal in parallel to rises elsewhere in Europe.
