Algarve unemployment grew significantly in 2020, but not to highs of 2013 By TPN/Lusa, in Algarve, News · 19-01-2021 12:00:00 · 0 Comments
Last month closed with around 31,000 people unemployed in the Algarve
Unemployment in the Algarve grew significantly in 2020, but did not reach the highs of 2013. Provisional data from December 2020 shared in an interview with Sul Informação by Madalena Feu, Algarve delegate for the Institute of Employment and Professional Training (IEFP), showed last month closed with around 31,000 people unemployed in the Algarve. By municipality, Albufeira was most affected by unemployment in 2020, follwed by Loulé and Portimão.
AMAL to demand refund on faulty ventilators By TPN/Lusa, in News, Algarve · 18-01-2021 20:00:00 · 1 Comments
AMAL is to request the refund of 1.3 million euros invested in 30 ventilators
AMAL – the Algarve Intermunicipal Community association – is to request the refund of 1.3 million euros invested in 30 ventilators, purchased for the Algarve Hospital Group (CHUA), and which do not work, newspaper Público reported on Sunday. AMAL president António Pina, quoted by Público, said that there is a consensus to demand the refund of the money , taking into account that the ventilators, bought in China, last year, were found to have insurmountable technical problems, confirmed by the non-profit organisation Common Use Service of Hospitals (SUCH). Sul Informação