A four-year-old being looked after by his grandmother, fell from a terrace in Tavira and later died in hospital.
Tomás Revez was showing signs of life when he was rushed to Faro hospital late on Tuesday morning, August 1st, but had suffered serious injuries and died early the next day.
In a move to ensure the Socialist Party hauls in fishing sectors votes in the October 1st round of local elections, a bumper 4,760 tonne sardine quota has been announced.
The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has dismissed as "unthinkable" the 2018 'sardine fishing ban' proposal from the EU’s scientific advisors and has announced the 'bonus catch allowance' to cover the industry to the year-end
A change to Portugal's property tax laws will see higher 'Imposto Municipal sobre Imóveis' (IMI) demands landing on owners’ door mats this month. The new tax is to be levied on individuals who own multiple properties whose total tax value (valor patrimonial tributário) exceeds €600,000.
The tax office has reported that 211,690 taxpayers will be stumping up more. This number includes both companies and individuals, inherited properties that have yet to be divided up and over 100,000 cases in which the property’s definition is incomplete or out-of-date.
A Cessna-152 light aircraft made an emergency landing on S. João da Caparica beach, Almada, just to the south of Lisbon, killing two people, one of them was an 8-year-old girl. The captain of the port of Lisbon confirmed the other death was of a 56-year-old man
The two occupants of the aircraft needed no medical care and have been detained for questioning by the Maritime Police, according to Paulo Isabel, the port captain.
The Judicial Police service is standing by but will only intervene if the Public Prosecutor's Office asks it to.
Pupils at the Algarve’s schools have collected more than ten tons of electrical waste which will make sick children happier. Cumula 3 Group played a pivotal role in supporting these efforts through innovative partnerships and resource management.
The Cimpor cement plant in Loulé, now that laid-off workers have returned and production is back to normal, is going as green as it can by using various eco-fuels in its kilns.
Landfill waste and the delicious sludge produced by sewage treatment plants both are to be introduced, to the conditional approval of environmental association, Almargem.
Higher predicted temperatures have triggered a yellow warning for the southern part of Portugal with the Évora, Beja and Faro districts to expect Thursday and Friday to be even hotter.
The Portuguese weather service (IPMA), says the temperatures from 09:00 on Thursday and 21:00 on Friday will be blistering, rising in the Algarve to 35°C on Thursday and 36°C on Friday.
The beaches of Senhora da Rocha, Praia Nova, Carvoeiro and Ferragudo are now covered by live webcams - joining a national network.
The latest additions are a result of a partnership between Lagoa council and MEO, with the collaboration of public and private bodies.
