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09/30/2010
An apparent grenade explosion in a shopping centre in the eastern town of Krnov has killed a man, reported to be a thief, and left six others injured. Four of the injured are policemen. The police department says the deceased man was robbing a bureau de change armed with a grenade, which exploded during a fray with policemen attempting to arrest him. Police are not yet sure whether the explosive was detonated intentionally. Rescuers say one of the officers is in critical condition with multiple injuries and has been flown to hospital is Ostrava.
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09/30/2010
The basic salaries of Members of Parliament and Senators should be 56,000 crowns per month in 2011, according to a proposal from the Ministry of Labour, or 3,000 crowns less than this year. The basic pay for ministers would drop almost 6,000 to 107.000 crowns. The salaries of judges will return to 2009 pay grades of 54.000 crowns. The Czech Constitutional Court recently overturned a four-percent reduction in the salaries of the judges in the Czech Republic citing a previous verdict which declared that the salaries of judges had to be stable and could not be cut.
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09/30/2010
The Czech Social Security Administration reports that it was short of nearly 21 billion crowns in pension funds at the end of August, nearly twice as much as the same period the previous year. Sickness compensations however, which are also paid from social security, were nearly 1 billion crowns out of the red, slightly easing the overall deficit. At the end of August 2008 the social security administration showed a total surplus of 9.6 billion crowns.
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09/30/2010
The District Court of Ostrava has sentenced eight people to imprisonment for the collapse of the country’s largest credit union, 1. Družstevní záložna Ostrava. The list of charges against the bank leaders and managers of associated companies reportedly took the judge two hours to read. The sentences ranged from four to nine and a half years, with the longest term being handed down to the bank’s director, who was found to have caused roughly a billion crowns in damages. The case has been underway since 2005 and two other people have already been convicted.
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09/30/2010
The Czech ombudsman’s office dealt with over 7,000 complaints last year, the largest number since the office’s founding. The numbers come from the office’s report to the Petitions Committee of Parliament made on Thursday and show an increase of more than a thousand complaints since 2007. The complaints most often dealt with social security and court delays and only about a third of them fell within the ombudsman’s competencies. The late ombudsman Otakar Motejl proposed 16 legislative changes as a result of the complaints. The office of ombudsman, which defends people who feel wronged by authorities, was taken up Pavel Varvařovský earlier this month.
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09/30/2010
The Municipal Court of Brno has begun hearings against members of the recently banned Workers’ Party charged with disseminating neo-fascism and hate speech at a May Day rally. None of the six accused appeared in court, citing various reasons. The case is a retrial of an objected lawsuit in which the defendants were found guilty and faced up to five years imprisonment. Among them is the former chairman of the Workers’ Party and current leader of the Workers’ Party for Social Justice, who warned the demonstrators against immigrants as opposed to decent people. Experts on Thursday testified that those remarks and others constituted intolerance of national minorities.
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09/30/2010
The Governor of the region of Central Bohemia, David Rath, has lost the second round of a lawsuit against the weekly magazine Reflex. Mr Rath was seeking an apology from the publishing company Ringier for ethics violations and defamation over a cover-page caricature that depicted him as a cross between Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. After the ruling, Mr Rath indicated he would be taking his case to the Supreme and possibly European courts.
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09/29/2010
Water levels have begun receding in the north of the country where a number of rivers broke their banks on Tuesday following days of heavy rain. Several dozen people who were evacuated from their homes are gradually returning to deal with the damage. Insurance companies say they are prepared to process new claims, despite the fact that it is less than two months since northern parts of the country were heavily flooded. Many towns and villages in the region remain on flood alert in view of more rain forecast in the coming days.
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09/29/2010
Czech Airlines has been forced to cancel three flights in connection with a general strike in Spain. A spokeswoman for Czech Airlines said day flights to Madrid and Barcelona had been cancelled, though two late evening flights to those destinations remain on schedule. She said delays could not be ruled out and asked passengers to seek fresh information ahead of scheduled flights. Two morning flights from Spain to Prague have had to be cancelled as well, leaving passengers to seek other means of transport.
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09/29/2010
The government on Wednesday approved a proposal to increase old age pensions by 371 crowns a month as of January 2010. The indexing is to make up for higher expenditures resulting from the government’s fiscal reforms. The average monthly pension in the Czech Republic is just over 10,000 crowns or 550 US dollars. At its regular Wednesday session the cabinet also approved a proposed amendment to the lottery law which should give municipalities the chance to regulate or even ban gambling in their region.
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