Section: Portugal
Woman pillion passenger loses leg in late-night accident in Albufeira
A Ukrainian woman was so badly injured in a late night accident in Vale Pedras, Albufeira, that surgeons have had to completely amputate one of her legs. The 35-year-old woman was travelling on the back of a motorcycle when it was involved in a violent collision with a car at 11.20pm on Saturday. According to press reports, rescue services fought...
Algarve – Ukrainian coke smugglers get 10 years each
The Central Court in Lisbon sentenced two men each to ten years in prison for trying to import 660 kilos of cocaine hidden on a yacht. The pair had started their doomed voyage from the Caribbean where one of them bought the 13 metre yacht from a Spaniard living in the Dominican Republic: they also bought a shipment of cocaine. …read more...
Animal lovers “sickened” by laws leaving Portugal’s cats and dogs at risk of human consumption
A national newspaper report that “cats and dogs from Portugal can now enter countries like Nigeria, Angola, Colombia, Peru, Jordan, Libya, Ukraine, South Korea and the Philippines” with Expresso asking the question “are they being sold to be eaten” has shocked the country’s animal rights community, leading to a petition demanding answers....
Portugal exports cats and dogs to Korea and the Philippines
Under new legislation, “cats and dogs from Portugal can now enter countries like Nigeria, Angola, Colombia, Peru, Jordan, Libya, Ukraine, South Korea and the Philippines” while China, for the time being, is “only allowed mice”. The news carried at the weekend by Expresso “raises the question as to whether these animals, which are traditionally...
Portugal registers boom in number of requests for asylum
Portugal has been registering a boom in the number of asylum requests it receives, according to TSF radio station. Teresa Tito de Morais, president of the Portuguese Centre for Refugees, said that the country received a never-before-seen 136 asylum requests in the first two months of 2015 alone. Most of them came from Ukrainian citizens, followed...
Portugal ranks 10th in the world’s 15 “grimmest” economies
The good news is that Portugal is in 10th position. Greece, for example, is up near the top at number five and Spain is doing worse, too, pegged at number six. What are we talking about? Bloomberg’s “misery index”: the 15 countries of the world with what the financial website calls the “saddest, most painful economies”. On the basis of...
Portugal named in Bloomberg ‘misery’ list
A list of countries where the future financial outlook appears glum has been compiled by Bloomberg, the financial data and media company. Heading the list were Venezuela, Argentina, South Africa, Ukraine and Greece which, it said, were “the five most painful economies in which to live and work”. …read more Source: Algarve Daily...
Portugal’s 2014 trade deficit rose to €10.6 billion
Last year’s December exports rose 4.9% compared to the year before but this was not sufficient to mitigate the effect of those months in which Portugal’s companies exported less than expected. In a year that was marked by a delayed recovery in the eurozone, the crisis in Ukraine, sanctions for Russia and a sharp decline in oil prices,...
