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Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:10 |
 The government has decided to grant 88,5 million króna for domestic programs for radio and television.
In question is a leftover from the culture fund of radio stations and the funds will be distributed according to the distribution regulations of the fun. There will be two distributions. One of them will be this year, and the other next year.
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:54 |
 There will be more wind and so expected to be more snowdrift in the capital area when the day passes and into the night, says Elisabet Margeirsdottir weather reporter at 365 midlar.
Elisabet warns people from traveling in the capital area if not needed when the night falls. Elisabet says that there will be less snowfall in the south west corner when the day passes. On the other hand may be expected more snowfall in south-east Iceland tonight.
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 06:30 |
Ambassador of Germany, Dr. Karl-Ulrich Muller, was found dead in his vehicle in Nordurardalur in Skagafjordur yesterday.
Muller left Reykjavik on Sunday and was on his way North. The police and rescue teams searched for him yesterday but his car was found with the help of the rescue helicopter of the coast guards.
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Monday, 18 January 2010 19:21 |
 The teachers association of Iceland decided during its board meeting on Friday to deposit eleven thousand euros or around two million króna into the fund raising account of the international association of teachers in support for Haiti.
The funds are going to be used to reconstruct education and school work and support students and teachers in the country. This amount equals to that each member of the teachers association if Iceland, as well as working teachers and retired teachers, pay one euro to the heal and reconstruction process in this tormented country.
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Monday, 18 January 2010 14:07 |
 The special D.A. does not expect that the result in the cases which the office has now been investigating will be ready until the end of this winter. Then there will be possible to take a decision regarding if there will be issued lawsuits or not.
Olafur Thor Hauksson, special D.A. says that there are a few cases that are at a more advanced stage than other. "But they can easily get more complicated so this could change. |
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Sunday, 29 November 2009 10:17 |
 At four PM are the Christmas lights on the Oslo tree on Austurvollur to be lit. Besides the Christmas lights will Ketkrokur, the Christmas chimes of the support union of disabled and paralytic 2009, decorate the tree. Ketkrokur is the fourth chime in the Santa series of the support union but the former chimes of the union have decorated the tree for the past years.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 13:34 |
 The contamination surgeon general is estimating that around 60 thousand persons have been infected by the so called swine flu here in Iceland. Over 50 thousand persons have been vaccinated here in Iceland, especially patients in the so called priority groups, pregnant women and people in security and key jobs of various types. There are so around 110.000 persons now immune for the influenza or around a third of the nation.
Around 20 thousand doses of the vaccine against the influenza are expected to Iceland this weekend and they will be distributed immediately to the health clinics. |
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Monday, 16 November 2009 15:04 |
 The Christmas tree which is a gift from the people of Oslo to Iceland this year was cut down with a festive ceremony today. Those who were at the ceremony were amongst others Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir, ambassador of Iceland in Norway, and Margit F. Tveiten ambassador of Norway in Iceland. The lights on the tree are to be lit during a festive ceremony on Austurvollur on November 29th. This year have 58 years past since the people of Oslo gave Iceland their first Christmas tree.
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 15:17 |
 The bomb squad of the national coast guards was called out yesterday to take a look at a buoy which drifted ashore in Skardsfjara close to Kirkjubaejarklaustur. When looked at more closely was clear that this is a Russian tapping buoy but there was also found close to the buoy a Russian sailing buoy with a thermometer and salt gage from a submarine which is used to measure salt and soundspeed in the ocean. It says on the website of the national coast guards that sailors were not in danger from these objects. The age of these buoys are unknown.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 14:45 |
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 Most swine flu cases here in Iceland for the past days and weeks have been diagnosed in young children between 0-9 years old. This is a noticeable change from July and August where most of those who got sick were between 15-30 years old. This was included in the documents which Gudrun Sigmundsdottir senior physician of the office of the contamination surgeon general has collected. In the announcement from the surgeon general says on the other hand that the cases in the age group 15-30 is reducing.
The numbers from the virus department of Landspitali hospital and the absense registry of the elementary school in Mentor also show this increase of cases for children. The absense of students in the elementary schools of the country increased greatly in October.
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:45 |
 It was confirmed yesterday that some pigs in the pig-farm on Minni-Vatnsleysa are infected with the swine flu. There will not be any special measures made because of this, other than trying to isolate the flu to this certain pig-farm. It is clear that the pigs have been infected because of an infected employee. There are no chances of getting the swine flu from eating any pork products.
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Friday, 23 October 2009 18:38 |
 The intensive care units of Landspitali hospital are getting close to their limit of expansion because of the swine flu, says Bjorn Zoega operating CEO of the hospital. No heart operations will be done on children next week, because the heart machines of the hospital have to be used in the intensive care units.
Eight were admitted to the hospital yesterday and last night because of the swine flu there of two into the intensive care unit. In total are thirty in the hospital because of the flu and there of six in the intensive care unit. The pressure and stress has so grown.
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:30 |
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 There is an active sexual market in Iceland which increases the chances of illegal prostitution and human trafficking here in Iceland, said the representative of Iceland at the Interpol. He says that the Icelandic police is worried that this problem is growing.
It is thought that human trafficking is the category which is growing the most which is related to organized crime in countries in Europe. Europol, the police institution of the EU, thinks that there needs to be a special campaign against human trafficking, but that is thought to be the second largest threat by crime in the continent - right after drugs.
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Monday, 19 October 2009 16:39 |
 The girl who passed away because of the swine flu in the childrens hospital Hringurinn this morning had a chronic lung disease and is thought to be the main reason for the result. The girl who had multiple disabilities got ill 11 days ago and was addmitted to the hospital last thursday.
Olafur Baldursson, CEO of medicine in Landspitali hospital said in a press conference today that the treatment of the girl had been accurately by the plan. |
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:14 |
 The first doses of the vaccine against the so called swine flu arrived in Iceland this morning and the health care staff were the first to be vaccinated around four pm today.
Haraldur Brien contamination surgeon general said in a conversation with the newsroom this morning that in the coming days and through next week will the focus be on only vaccinating the health care employees. It matters the most that they can stand their shift. |
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Monday, 12 October 2009 04:00 |
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 The disabled are alarmed about their interests and fear further income reduction in addition to those who have been made this year, says Gudmundur Magnusson vice chairman of the Disabled union of Iceland, OBI. The main committee of the union sent a conclusion yesterday where they protest "harshly that the government, which presents itself to be about social affairs and equality, is planning to continue to reduce the benefits of the disabled more than other subjects of the country." Gudmundur says that this is very harsh for the disabled and other pensioners to deal with worse conditions in addition to deal with the raising prices of consumer products and higher payments of loans.
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Friday, 09 October 2009 09:57 |
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 The condition of a man who is in intensive care at Landspitali hospital and has the swine flu is critical according to the doctor on call. The man is kept in a medical coma and on life support. According to the doctor is the man roughly 60 and has other underlying diseases.
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 18:30 |
The contamination surgeon general says that it is a race against time to start giving the vaccines in order to prevent the spread of the swine flu. It has been gaining in the capital area and nine persons have been hospitalized there of two in intensive care.
It was thought that the influenza H1N1 - which is also called the swine flu - was receding, but that has proven to be wrong. |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 14:19 |
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 There is winter up on Hellisheidi and a few drivers have run into trouble. From what the police says have a few vehicles run off the roads but no one has been injured. The police encourages people to prepare and be careful. The traffic is moving slowly up on the heath.
From what the police says is normal winter weather now on Hellisheidi. Icy spots, snow and limited view. Drivers are encouraged to be careful.
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:33 |
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 The applications for homing in the treatment clinics of the Child services have increased considerably for the first six months this year compared to the same time last year. The applications were 78 in the first six months of this year but last year were 68 at the same time. This is written in the new report about notifications to the child services which the child protection agency published today.
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Around 63,7% of the nation are rather or very against allowing casinos in Iceland. On the other hand are 71% of men under thirty supportive the idea. This is what the results of the survey of MMR shows.