Olhão’s main seafront road, waterfront area to the south of the twin markets and one of its much cherished parks are to be ‘refurbished’ at a cost of €1.5 million.
Polis Litoral Ria Formosa’s board meeting agreed the work in Avenida 5 de Outubro, Jardim Patrão Joaquim Lopes and Jardim Pescador Olhanense along the Olhão waterfront and is expected to start this extensive and controversial redevelopment "by the end of October."
Prime Minister António Costa has backed himself into a corner by continuing to give his full support to his ‘dead man walking’ Finance Minister, Mário Centeno who it seems certain has lied to parliament over the Caixa Geral directors' statements affair.
The prime minister spent much of today highlighting the excellent work of his finance minister in ‘handling the deficit and stabilising the financial sector,’ referring to his colleague as a 'reference point for trust' while accusing his parliamentary opposition of dedicating themselves to trickery.
Lagos council has launched an open bid for remedial work at Ponte da Piedade and to join Canaival with Dona Ana beach via a walkway.
The council launched the contest for the ‘Requalification of Ponta da Piedade - 1st Phase" which aims to connect Canavial beach to Ponta da Piedade.
Prison sentences were handed out in Spain to 11 former Popular Party officials and businessmen found guilty of corruption.
The case, in the eastern region of Valencia, is just one part of a wider corruption scandal which revolves around a businessman, Francisco Correa, accused of giving bribes to parliamentarians from the ruling Popular Party and some civil servants in order to receive public contracts for his companies or those of his cronies.
The body of Alyn Pennycook, a Scot missing since September 2016, was found on Thursday at a property near Celorico da Beira, Guarda.
The man’s partner, Louise Khan, lived with him at the rural dwelling and has been arrested by police on suspicion of concealing his body and an investigation has started to ascertain the cause of death.
Rui Horta and Costa, a defendant in the José Sócrates corruption investigation, has been forced to resign his directorship of Portugal’s Post Office.
Suspected of the corruption, abuse of trust, fraud and money laundering, Rui Horta e Costa decided ‘for personal reasons’ to resign on Wednesday as a non-executive director of CTT where his term was from 2017 to 2019.
Plane-spotters at Faro airport this afternoon were surprised to see one of the Portuguese Air Force’s surveillance aircraft coming in to land.
This unscheduled stop was an emergency landing that has the airport authorities switching to full alert after the military pilot asked for assistance.
With an eye to the elections coming up this autumn, Loulé council has announced investments of €21 million for Quarteira.
The vote-buying strategy is on an unprecedented scale with a cultural centre and a new gymnasium being dangled in front of voters’ noses.
