The Algarve is set for another hot sunny weekend and is expected to be the only region in Portugal that won’t have cloudy skies on Saturday (July 17).
Although temperatures will be relatively high across the country - 31ºC in Faro, 33ºC in Beja and Évora, 28ºC in Lisbon and 24ºC in Porto – clear blue skies throughout the weekend are only forecast for the Algarve.
As his finance minister wife is in the news for allegedly finding a new use for money paid into the health service by public sector workers, António Albuquerque has been served with court papers to answer five crimes ranging from defamation to injury and attempted coercion.
The lamentable state of affairs harks back to abusive texts Albuquerque is accused of having sent a journalist last year after the catastrophic collapse of BES and scrambled creation of Novo Banco.
It may sound like a new form of car wash, but it is actually the largest corruption investigation that Brazil has ever seen, and it looks like threatening fallout in Portugal.
Operation Lava-Jato is currently investigating trips that Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva made to Portugal in 2013.
Brussels has told Portugal to shape-up over child sex-abuse and pornography laws. Giving a limit of two months, the EC said today that Portugal’s time is running out.
The country should have altered its national legislation in line with a community directive over 18 months ago, but “despite letters notifying to this effect, nothing was done”, Diário de Notícias reports.
The council of ministers met today to sort out Paulo Portas’ Golden Visa scheme which has been suspended due large legal holes appearing in the revised legislation.
Amendments have been made to the amended amendments but the suggested final answers to the entire legal jumble now have to be reviewed by the President of the Republic of Portugal, Cavaco Silva, who may or may not approve the legislation. If he does, the details need to be published in the Official Gazette and Golden Visas again can be issued.
Lawyers acting for the former Chief Executive of Banco Espírito Santo, Ricardo Salgado, have delivered a report which accused the Bank of Portugal’s governor of having an aura that gives him an "absolute immunity" regardless of any "mistakes and sins," and which allowed the supervisor to conduct the BES rescue process "negligently and partially."
In a case with overtones of 'pot and kettle' the accusations against the Bank of Portugal's governor included several instances where Carlos Costa had fouled up, yet seemed always to have an ‘aura of immunity.’
The Electoral Commission in the UK believes the number of expat votes in the May general election was lowered due to insufficient postage being supplied as well as the late receipt of papers.
In a report, published today, the Electoral Commission said that the Returning Officers (ROs) must include sufficient pre-paid postage on return envelopes for voters abroad to return completed ballot papers.
Lagoa council says it is committed to bringing back the soul to Fatacil* at the 36th edition of the exhibition and music festival which in recent years has been allowed to slide into deficit and indifference.
The fair this year (21 to 30 August) is hosting about 700 exhibitors, of which half are new to the venue and all aim to represent the best the Algarve offers in the categories of handicraft, tourism, agriculture, trade and industry.
