“Operation Mamma Mia” has revealed a milti-million euro scam where cheaper Spanish and Greek oils were being palmed off to consumers as Italian extra virgin oil in an effort to cash in on the cachet of an Italian brand.
The undercover operation discovered that some producers were falsely labelling their bottles.
The Algarve golf scene has burst back into life after years of dogged promotion and objections to the austerity levy of a 23% VAT rate on rounds played.
Last year’s figures are just out and show the best performance since 2007 with 1.2 million rounds played, some 81,500 more than last year with October the best month.
The EU is planning to investigate the use of €500 notes out of concern that they are being used by criminals.
Such suspicions about drug dealers and smugglers are not new, and one might have thought that was enough to cause their demise.
Portugal’s new Minister for Culture has concluded a visit to the Algarve with news that there is no news.
Questioned about funding for the Algarve vibrant, yet cash poor raft of cultural activities and notable buildings, João Soares said that the country is in "an emergency situation," that he does not yet know what funds will be available this year for his cultural agenda.
He did add that the current government is willing to "elevate the culture sector" in terms of its funding priorities.
Thailand has arrested more than 100 people for human trafficking after a threat from the EU to boycott the country’s fishing industry.
An additional 130 people were freed from vessels and factories, according to the police.
A new scandal is dogging authorities in Rome after an investigation revealed that hundreds of its property assets are being rented out for next to nothing.
Luxury flats in expensive districts of the capital are being let by the city council to private tenants for just a few euros a month.
The man who phoned Faro airport to say there was a bomb onboard a TAP flight to Lisbon this morning has been arrested.
The Judicial Police announced today that originator of the hoax bomb alert has been arrested, questioned, accused and released subject to his turning up at the local police station regularly and not travelling abroad.
Portugal’s government has issued a travel warning for Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Mexico, New Caledonia, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Suriname, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Martinique, French Guyana and Honduras and the Zika virus continues to 'spread explosively' according to the WHO.
Also at risk are people in and travellers to Barbados, Bolivia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Curacao.
