Learning a lesson
Though the sheer cynicism of the government officials’ attitude to the protesting citizens may anger you or leave you cold, it definitely should not surprise you.
Though the sheer cynicism of the government officials’ attitude to the protesting citizens may anger you or leave you cold, it definitely should not surprise you.
TOGETHER 10 hospitals across the country may struggle with a lack of nurses over the next months.
AFTER three-and-a-half years in his position, Austrian Friedrich Haider is leaving his post in the Slovak National Theatre.
SO FAR, about 35,000 people have signed a petition to ban gambling in Bratislava.
JUST weeks before the March 5 parliamentary election Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government will send gas rebates ranking from €10 to €165 to 1.41 million households.
SEVERAL hundred nurses from the Prešov hospital, their relatives and also Košice medical workers marched on January 20 around the centre of Košice.
SLOVAKS living abroad would like politicians to show interest in them not just before elections but also afterwards.
FORMER MP and chairman of Slovak National Party (SNS), Ján Slota, caused an accident on January 18 and immediately refused an alcohol test.
DAGMAR Chocholáčková, a 45-year-old woman from Bratislava contacted police several times in 2015, claiming that ex-boyfriend Štefan Kiš was threatening her. Police found the pair dead on January 15, and the Interior Ministry has since launched an investigation.
Director Martin Šulík chosen to be festival’s honorary patron.
SLOVAK Teachers’ Initiative (ISU) which has declared a strike alert and threatened to organise a full-fledged strike as of January 25, has organised a demonstration that is due to take place on SNP square in Bratislava on that day, at 11:00.
THE government at its session on January 20 approved investment assistance for IEE Sensing Slovakia worth €4.58 million which is aimed at increasing the production capacity of the firm’s plant in Veľká Ida in Košice Region.
MILITARY premises in the Bratislava borough of Vajnory which will accommodate the newly set up NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU) from September 2016 will be reconstructed. At its session on January 20, the cabinet approved the announcement of a public procurement process for their reconstruction.
A nurse at Košice University Hospital committed suicide in the emergency admission ward during the morning of January 18.
THE THERMAL centre/waterpark Galandia has been closed since December 11, due to fears of structural flaws. The case was to be discussed at the Galanta town council meeting on January 20, and so dozens of locals waited outside - in vain.