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Naquela que já é uma tradição na vida escolar algarvia, as autarquias de Loulé e Lagos, através das suas Bibliotecas (Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen e Júlio Dantas), voltam a juntar-se para lançar ...

A Câmara Municipal de Lagos aprovou, na sua última Reunião de Câmara, o voto de congratulação e louvor às atletas do Clube Desportivo da Escola Secundária Gil Eanes que representaram a Seleção Nacion...

Teve início a discussão pública da proposta de Plano de Pormenor (PP) do Paul de Lagos. No período compreendido entre 15 de setembro e 13 de outubro, qualquer pessoa interessada poderá apresentar à C...

No próximo dia 26 de setembro decorrem as Eleições Autárquicas 2021, as quais compreendem a Câmara Municipal, Assembleia Municipal e Assembleia de Freguesia. Para o efeito, estão a ser criadas condiç...

Depois de uma interrupção em 2020 devido à situação pandémica, a Semana Europeia da Mobilidade regressa a Lagos em 2021 com várias atividades seguras, para todas as faixas etárias, de 16 a 22 de sete...

Está quase a começar a rota gastronómica mais conhecida do Algarve. É já no dia 10 de setembro que tem início a 11.ª edição da Rota do Petisco em 11 municípios da região, de Odeceixe à Ilha de Tavira...

The Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, praised the population's adherence to vaccination, noting that Portugal is one of the countries in the world with the highest immunisation rate, but stressed that the rules for individual protection against Covid-19 must be maintained.

Paula Fatri and her 12-year-old daughter have been on the run for over a month. The father wants Vera to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the mother and daughter do not want to, so they went underground.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Action yesterday announced a funding of 14 million Euros to improve the water supply in the Algarve.

The European service Copernicus, which monitors the atmosphere, announced today that the size of the hole in the ozone layer in the southern hemisphere has surpassed the size of Antarctica, a continent of around 14 million square kilometres.

More than 80% of catering companies and almost 60% of tourism companies have experienced difficulties in hiring new employees this year, according to a survey by the Portuguese Hotel, Restaurant and Similar Association (AHRESP) , released today.

This weekend has seen around 80,000 12-17 year olds turn up at vaccination centres to receive their second doses against Covid-19 infection. This was the second and last weekend dedicated to the vaccination of Portugal’s youngest citizens, just as the new school year gets underway.  The post Around 80,000 teens receive second doses of Covid […]

In the United States for the 76th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, President Marcelo has defended the urgent need for a global treaty against pandemics and the reform of the World Health Organisation (seriously tarnished by a recent Sunday Times exposé click here). While ‘back home in Portugal’ politicians are racing […]

Following the ‘incomprehensible’ decision on September 1 to ban all travellers from Israel – whether or not they had been fully vaccinated (click here) – Portugal has agreed to allow the entry of Israelis with a Covid-19 vaccination or recovery certificate, the country’s online Ynet has reported. “The approval comes as a result of the […]

This is the ‘elephant in the room’ that so many countries are downplaying. The double-vaccinated can still transmit SARS-CoV-2; they can still become infected – and in some cases they will end up in hospital with Covid-19 and die from it. In other words, the divisions being aired about ‘vaccinated’ versus ‘non-vaccinated’ people (click here) […]

Health minister Marta Temido has admitted that non-vaccinated ‘workers’ could face obligatory testing for Covid-19, and different rules when it comes to prophylactic isolation. Her remarks come in the context that employers confederations (both CIP and CCP) defend mandatory testing of non-vaccinated workers, to be paid for by the workers themselves. A report by SIC […]