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February 22, 2019

CTT shares fall sharply as dividend cut by 73%

The 28% drop in profits and a 73% cut in the dividend pushed CTT’s shares to their year’s low point today. Shares of the privatised company, led by Francisco de Lacerda, fell more than 7% in today’s trading, the largest…
February 22, 2019

Ryanair fined €3 million for deceptive handluggage policy

Ryanair has been fined €3 million for introducing a highly deceptive hand luggage policy last November that left customers baffled and competition authorities sharpening their pencils. The significant fine over Ryanair’s chiselling scheme came from the Italian Competition Authority. The…
February 22, 2019

Águas do Algarve testing techniques to remove drugs from waste water

The regional water company, Águas do Algarve, has announced further research into a project to control pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater treatment plants. The investigation has been approved under the LIFE 2014-2017 programme and the main objectives are to monitor…
February 22, 2019

Study of Algarve wetlands to thwart developers

The Almargem Association has submitted an application to the Environmental Fund for a project that seeks to understand more about the Algarve region’s several wetlands in support of their classification as protected areas. According to Almargem, the areas of Trafal…
February 22, 2019

Study of Algarve wetlands to thwart developers

The Almargem Association has submitted an application to the Environmental Fund for a project that seeks to understand more about the Algarve region’s several wetlands in support of their classification as protected areas. According to Almargem, the areas of Trafal…
February 22, 2019

Advice from National Maritime Authority – ‘Don’t swim in the sea this weekend’

The temperature is rising across the Algarve so the National Maritime Authority has posted an alert for people to be sensible on the region’s beaches and coastal areas even suggesting that swimming in the sea is not a good idea…
February 22, 2019

Advice from National Maritime Authority – ‘Don’t swim in the sea this weekend’

The temperature is rising across the Algarve so the National Maritime Authority has posted an alert for people to be sensible on the region’s beaches and coastal areas even suggesting that swimming in the sea is not a good idea…
February 22, 2019

Youths arrested over Olhão street crimes

Two young men, aged 17 and 19, suspected of robbing people in the streets of Olhão, attacking some of them with an iron bar, have been arrested and are awaiting trial from the security of a prison cell. The arrest…
February 22, 2019

Youths arrested over Olhão street crimes

Two young men, aged 17 and 19, suspected of robbing people in the streets of Olhão, attacking some of them with an iron bar, have been arrested and are awaiting trial from the security of a prison cell. The arrest…

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