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Floating solar park plans move ahead By TPN/Lusa, in News, Renewable · 14-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments EDP electricity company will move forward with the project for a floating solar park at the Alqueva dam which should start producing energy at the end of this year. In a statement, EDP states that the project for a park with 1...

Introduction Since early October 2017, when the Islamist militants or jihadists – identified as the Ansar al-Sunna – launched their first attacks in the villages and towns of Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, insurgency and conflict has continued to escalate, targeting civilians, public infrastructure and government buildings. Although the Government of Mozambique continues to make concerted efforts to fight and subdue the terrorist insurgency through its national defence fo...

Pre-trial detention for cybercrime suspect The Judicial Court of Estremoz (Évora) has decreed the preventive detention of one of the 17 detained last week by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on suspicion of cybercrime. The same source indicated to Lusa agency that a man was in pre-trial detention, the most serious coercion measure. The other suspects, 10 men and six women, were subject to presentations by the security force in their area of ​​residence, according to a Judicial Police source. The ...

17 detained for suspected cybercrimes The Federal Criminal Police (FCC) has arrested 17 people, on 5 May, on suspicion of having committed hundreds of aggravated computer scams, computer forgery and unlawful access in an operation to combat cybercrime in the Estremoz area. In a statement, the PJ said that the “MBWay” investigation began a few months ago and is based on several cases of fraud committed in an organised manner, using the banking application. The investigative strategy, the PJ ...

The green list guide to holidays in Portugal: where to stay and what to do Summer holidays to Portugal have been given the green light – here’s everything you need to know to plan you break 8 May 2021 • 3:26pm With Portugal on the green list, Britons can now holiday there without having to self-isolate on return Credit: Getty Portugal’s inclusion on the Government’s green list was not unexpected – the country has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe and its transmissibility ...

SITE TOWER Submission Deadline:  Saturday, May 8, 202111:59 PMBST ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the ‘SITE TOWER’ international architecture ideas competition for architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old). This international one-stage architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit compelling ideas for the design o...

Farmers ask for increase in water quota The president of ACOS - Agricultores do Sul, from Beja, have drawn attention to “the need to increase the availability of water” in Alqueva for agriculture, stating that the current quota “is manifestly insufficient". The current quota available for agricultural activity at the Alqueva Multi-Purpose Enterprise (EFMA) "is manifestly insufficient to accommodate the expansion of the irrigated area currently under development," said Rui Garrido. Accord...

Cinemas welcoming back audiences At least 4,761 moviegoers went to the cinema on 19 April, the day cinemas reopened, a source from the Cinema and Audiovisual Institute (ICA) told Lusa news agency. According to the ICA, which gathers regular statistics on cinema exhibition in the country, exhibitors reported about 27,000 Euros in box office revenue on Monday, 19 April, but not all the cinemas reopened their doors. Of the 561 cinemas in the country, and ICA indicates that on reopening, it obtaine...

Two new beaches for the Alentejo The Alqueva reservoir will be home to two new river beaches, located in the municipalities of Alandroal and Portel, in the district of Évora. The Alandroal Chamber project will be located in Azenhas d’El Rei, near the village of Montes Juntos, and the works are due to start “this week or next”, according to the municipality’s president, João Grilo. “It is a place that, even before the filling of Alqueva reservoir, was sought out to be used as a recre...

Living through the ‘Carnation’ revolution By Paul Luckman, in News, Opinion · 23-04-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments I came to live in Portugal in November 1973, just in time to experience first-hand the famous ‘Carnation’ revolution, so named as soldiers put carnations in the barrels of their rifles to indicate this was a pea...