Last year, total toll receipts from drivers using the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway contributed 66% of the total sum paid to the concession holder.
Motorists using the formerly free road, were relieved of €35.7 million in 2016, according to the annual report of the Technical Unit for the Monitoring of Projects.
From August 1st, the emergency department at Faro hospital will have no surgeons available over the weekends.
"Without a surgeon, people die," said Martine dos Santos, director of the Surgery Service, noting that the situation is "very serious."
Men have to wait 180 days to remarry but women are faced with a 300 day period. The Attorney General, Joana Marques Vidal, says this "discriminatory, unjustified and inadmissible."
The different waiting period for men and for women violates the constitutional principle of equality, as well as the Constitution that states that, "everyone has the right to start a family and to get married on an equal basis," according to a welcome statement from the Attorney General's Office that has been submitted to parliament.
The promised maximum waiting time to get through Lisbon airport’s immigration control system is not being met with reports of two and three hour waits being widely reported.
Getting through the Aliens and Borders Service (SEF) has delayed thousands of visitors but SEF management says that there are only occasional cases where targeted processing times have been exceeded.
Some of Portugal’s municipalities may see in August without sufficient water, due to the drought conditions affecting 80% of the country.
The Alentejo and Beira Interior regions are the areas most affected by the current drought. The Secretary of State for the Environment already has warned that it may be necessary to look for alternative sources of water, while banning the watering of green spaces by local councils.
The body of the director of the Macrobiotic Institute of Portugal, Francisco Varatojo, was found on Friday afternoon, July 7th, according to a report from the Captain of the Port of Setúbal, Luís Nicholson Lavrador.
The corpse was recovered at a depth of 18 metres by divers from the Maritime Police near the place where he had disappeared near Pedra de Arcanzil, between Cabo Espichel and Porto da Baleeira, on Thursday, said a source at the diving school that owned the vessel that was being used for the dive.
As from Saturday, July 8th, anyone parking in a space reserved for disabled drivers risks getting two points taken of their driving license which, under the new system, starts out with a total of 12.
Parking, or even stopping, in places reserved for people with disabilities is now considered a serious infraction after the rule unanimously was approved in Parliament.
The former head of the Energy and Geology Directorate, Miguel Barreto Caldeira Antunes, has been made an official suspect in Operation Cyclone which is looking into corruption at EDP, one of the country's largest companies.
Miguel Barreto was the man responsible for the issuing a highly advantageous, open-ended licence to EDP for the power station in Sines that has a well-deserved reputation for air pollution.
