The head of Portugal’s lifeguards association, Alexandre Tadeia, says a system for year-round beach watching by trained lifeguards needs to be put in place to reduce the number of deaths in the off-season - and the beach concession holders association chief, João Correia, agrees.
On the eve of the official start to the bathing season, on Thursday June 15th, the remaining 30% of Portuguese beaches that do not yet have coverage will have lifeguards as from tomorrow morning.
A fire at a rental car storage area adjoining the Agricultural Directorate in Patacão, near Faro airport, already has destroyed at least 40 vehicles as firefighters from stations in São Brás de Alportel, Olhão and Loulé tackle the blaze.
A column of smoke has been visible for miles but the fire service responded to the call at 14:18 and operatives soon were tackling the inferno, made more perilous by the possibility of petrol tanks, laden with fuel, exploding.
The Economic Crime Section of the Prosecutor's Office in Madrid has filed a complaint against the Real Madrid footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, for four fiscal crimes committed between 2011 and 2014.
The tax fraud involves €14.7 million, claims the Spanish prosecutor.
Researchers from the Algarve’s University have installed a tidal energy device in the Ria Formosa laggon area at Barra de Faro.
The test is to evaluate the feasibility of producing tidal energy in the Ria Formosa. The installation was carried out by a research team working on a project called ‘Sustainability of Energy Production of the Tidal Currents of Ria Formosa’ (SCORE), coordinated by André Pacheco of the Center for Marine and Environmental Research.
The 2008 collapse of Banco Português de Negócios (BPN) is still being supported by taxpayers with a further €420 million being set aside to cover losses and write-offs incurred in 2016.
BPN appears to have been run for the benefit of its crooked management. As those in charge were incompetent as well as criminals, the bank went bust in 2008, triggering a State bailout that so far, with this 2016 figure added in, has cost the public purse an eye-watering €3.66 billion.
A fire in Monchique on Monday afternoon had all the conditions to spread uncontrollably as the hot weather and breeze allowed the blaze rapidly to gain strength and coverage.
The alert was given at 3:37 pm in Portela do Vale in the Marmelete area with the western Algarve’s fire teams soon on the scene with 137 people and 48 vehicles involved.
With just over two weeks to go for the western section of the EN125 road works to be completed, according to the timetable offered by the Minster for Infrastructure, Pedro Marquês, works on the west tower of Ponte Nova over the River Arade between Lagoa and Portimão is are "almost restarting,” according to information given to Sul Informação which contacted the concession holder, Rotas do Algarve Litoral.
Work on the bridge was suspended a year ago after the first tower was refurbished, with a width and speed restriction left in place as workmen left the project half-completed.
With the annual increase in the local population during the summer months, more rubbish is produced and the Algarve's council's collection services often can’t cope.
Many people find local rubbish containers overflowing with any overload simply dumped on the ground near collection points.
