A 400,000-year-old fossilised human skull was found in the Aroeira cave in Torres Novas, Santarém, by an international team of archaeologists, led by João Zilhão.
The archaeologists spotted the skull in 2014 as they surveyed the extensive cave system. After years of careful work and analysis, the team has presented its findings in this week's issue of the US National Academy of Sciences’s newsletter.
Many of Portugal’s vehicle testing centres have been obliged to install expensive new equipment to enable their technicians to test motorbikes of 250cc or more.
Approximately 150 inspection centers paid an average of €200,000 each for the equipment upgrade and have been ready since last October when the legislation led them to believe that, come Jan 1st , 2017, it would be a legal requirement for these motorbikes to be tested.
In an image upgrade directed at tourist traffic, Loulé council has awarded a road project to link the EN396 to Vale do Lobo and Quinta do Lago in Almancil.
The 2.2 kilometre section between the EM 527-2 (Almancil – Quarteira) and the VNC 522 (Vale do Lobo - Quinta do Lago) will naturally include a new roundabout with the budget of €2.2 million.
The tendering parameters are "ready and should be released within one to two months” said Faro mayor, Rogério Bacalhau in May 2014, referring to the construction of a new road bridge to Faro island.
In November 2014, Faro council was said by its opposition to have displayed an "inability and a lack of political influence" for losing out on Community funding for the construction of the new bridge.
The former Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, Paulo Núncio, has been called back to parliament to explain his role as a lawyer to the Venezuelan national oil company whose European branch, PDVSA Europe, transferred a significant part of the €7.8 billion that ended up in Panama, using BES as its bankers: Núncio was a Secretary of State at the time.
The row over the €10 billion in unmonitored offshore transfers between 2011 and 2014 brings Núncio into the spotlight once again as he failed to disclose his role as a lawyer with the law firm Garrigues, which was advising the Venezuelan state oil company, nor did he disclose his involvement in suppressing data about capital outflows from the Madeira free zone.
Spain’s King Felipe VI and his wife Letizia are expected to be hosted to a state visit with Queen Elizabeth II in June.
Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement on Friday that the visit is scheduled for 6-8 June.
Portugal is submitting nonsensical data to Brussels on waste disposal and recycling rates despite two publically funded agencies working on what should not be too taxing a task.
Environmental collective, Zero, says that Portugal hasn’t a clue how much urban solid waste its citizens and industry is producing or how much is recycled, with "errors and discrepancies" in the data from the two bodies responsible whose cost to the State is enarly €12 million a year.
The faults highlighted in the Bank of Portugal’s scathing report on management practices at Montepio bank, leading to a ‘high risk profile,’ have been addresses according to the regulator and Montepio, run by José Félix Morgado.
Montepio absolutely guarantees that all the failures identified by the Bank of Portugal that were not been challenged, have been corrected. In a clarification sent to the newsrooms, Montepio said that the Bank of Portugal’s report does not reflect the current situation at Montepio.
