The Public Prosecutor's Office has accused 21 people of selling cannabis, often near schools, across the Faro municipality.
The Faro District Attorney's Office commented, "some of the defendants also were charged with robbery, threats, possession of prohibited weapons and driving without a license."
The World Travel Awards, recently hosted in the Maldives, saw Portugal win four of the 31 categories, two awards being for hotels in the Algarve.
The Conrad Algarve and Vila Vita Parc were voted among the best hotels in the world in two different categories.
Silves council plans to spend €950,000 on building a venue for events in S. Bartolomeu de Messines.
The council’s announcement was published today in the Diário da República and opened a tendering process to choose the company to do the construction work.
So dire is the situation at Portimão’s public hospital that the Left Bloc leader, Catarina Martins is to visit on Friday to see for herself, accompanied by her colleague, the Algarve MP, João Vasconcelos.
After the walkabout, the Left Bloc delegation will meet the management of the Hospital Center of the Algarve to get some answers as to what has gone wrong and how the situation can be resolved.
Condominium owners can stop neighbours from letting their properties to tourists, according to a judgment in the Court of Appeal in Lisbon which states that as the act of letting property is a commercial activity and that the condominium owners assembly may prohibit the assignment of one or more parts of a building for rent to tourists.
The huge increase in city-focused tourism in recent years has driven the short-term local accommodation market like never before but has created tension between apartment owners with permanent residents turning against those owners who let their property to tourists.
Portugal’s Public Prosecutor has insisted on interviewing the twin sons of the Iraqi ambassador, Saad Mohammed Ali, stating that it is essential that the Iraqis’ diplomatic immunity be lifted.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has forwarded its file on the vicious assault on Rúben Cavaco in Ponte de Sor, Portalegre, after Iraq had claimed it was "premature to take a decision" on lifting the diplomatic immunity covering the ambassador's children as its diplomats had not had access to the case against the twins.
The Ikea Group has said that it will invest €1 billion to buy forests as well as more energy panels and wind turbines.
The investment comes after a rise in sales and profits and after netting €5.2 billion from the sale of its product development and supply chain business. Last year, Ikea pledged to invest €600 million in renewable energy.
The Court of Auditors has reported a disastrous "lack of control" at Caixa Geral de Depósitos between 2013 and 2015 when Maria Luís de Albuquerque was Finance Minister in the Passos Coelho coalition government.
The audit report shows that the government approved documents without having complete information and that such control as existed, lacked transparency.
