The Energy department suspects that Portugal’s filling stations are ripping-off drivers and has ordered an investigation into the steep rise in profit margins.
The Secretary of State for Energy has asked the Competition Authority for a new study on the fuel market.
A record 181,000 migrants reached the shores of Italy in 2016 on flimsy boats from northern Africa.
This was a major increase of 20% over 2015, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday.
A new Police report reveals that fraudsters con travellers out of millions a year, with airline tickets, accommodation and group bookings most vulnerable.
ABTA, The City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and Get Safe Online have joined forces to warn the general public about the dangers posed by holiday booking fraud.
Mário Soares has died at the venerable age of 92. The war horse of Portuguese politics was the first freely elected prime minister after the 1974 revolution ended the darkness of the Salazar years.
Soares died at the Red Cross Hospital in Lisbon today, January 7th, 2017 where he has been treated since December 13th last year.
An area of localised pollution on the beaches of the Ria Formosa island of Culatra has turned into a 14 kilometre long headache.
A carpet of yellowing globs of palm oil has made the beaches un-useable and the Culatra-based organisation SOS Ria Formosa has another fight on its hands and is calling for volunteers this weekend to help clean up the mess.
On Thursday, about 75% of the fishermen inspected in the Faro area by the Maritime Police, were fined for not wearing their lifejackets.
The professional fishermen were on their boats and should wear a lifejacket at all times.
The President of the Algarve Socialist Party, António Eusébio, has welcomed the Government's decision to send the interest on delayed payments to the region’s councils.
The amounts relate to interest on money collected by the State from Municipal Property Tax (IMI) and Municipal Tax on Real Estate Transfers (IMT), which were not passed on to councils in a timely manner.
A demonstration against the obligatory wearing of helmets while bicycling, a key measure in the National Road Safety Strategic Plan, is scheduled for 10am this Sunday in Lisbon.
Cycling associations disagree on the mandatory use of the helmet and the government now is saying that the use of helmets by cyclists was ‘just a proposal’ having seen the number of votes it could lose by pushing through an unpopular measure.
