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03/15/2010
The rescue service in the North Bohemian Krkonoše mountains has issued a high degree avalanche alert. After heavy snowfall over the weekend, the risk was rated at level three on a five point scale. Skiers have been warned not to stray from marked trails and to exercise caution. Some skiing locations saw up to 50 centimeters of fresh snow over the weekend and heavy winds are contributing to the danger. Avalanches happen several times a year in the Krkonose mountains but rarely affect populated areas or high-traffic skiing routes. The last victim of an avalanche in the Krkonoše mountains was a 36-year-old skier who died after being buried by an avalanche in 2008.
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03/15/2010
Last year, the Czech Republic saw a growth in population of about 40,000, according to data published by the Czech Statistical Office on Monday. The number of immigrants was seen to have dropped significantly compared to the previous year, when 70,000 immigrants arrived in the Czech Republic. Nonetheless, immigration was the main factor in population growth in 2009. The number of births outweighed the number of deaths by about 11,000. The data also confirmed the end of the baby boom that the country saw between 1999 and 2009. Overall, more babies are born out of wedlock, with a trend of motherhood later in life. The average age at which Czech women became mothers in 2009 was 29, as opposed to 27 in the previous year.
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03/15/2010
Over the weekend, an Egyptian tortoise was born in Prague Zoo. The Egyptian tortoise is among the most endangered species of tortoises world wide. Prague Zoo has been breeding the animal for two years, the newly born specimen is the zoo’s fifteenth Egyptian tortoise. Only 4700 specimen are estimated to be living in the wild. The Egyptian Tortoise is native to Libya and Israel.
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03/14/2010
The Czech finance minister, Eduard Janota, has designated the year 2015 as the earliest possible date for the adoption of the euro. Mr Janota told Czech TV on Sunday that the Czech Republic would first have to lower the deficit of public finances below 3 percent of the country’s GDP by 2013. That would involve adopting a number of cost-cutting measures as well as changing the structure of the state budget. According to estimates by the Finance Ministry, the state budget deficit should this year drop to 5.3 percent of the GDP; last year, it reached 6.6 percent of the gross domestic product.
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03/14/2010
In related news, Finance Minister Eduard Janota said on Sunday the development of the state budget met expectations in the first two months of 2010. Mr Janota told Czech TV it was too early to make draw any conclusions but that available data do not suggest any serious problems should occur. The only issue, according to the Czech finance minister, is the decreasing revenues from social insurance, undermined by growing unemployment. By the end of February, the deficit of the state budged was 10.6 billion crowns, while the overall deficit of Czech public finances in 2010 is expected to reach some 160 billion crowns, or more than 8.6 billion US dollars.
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03/14/2010
The King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni, arrived in Prague on Sunday for a private visit, the news agency ČTK reported quoting unofficial sources. During his week-long visit, the Cambodian head of state is scheduled to meet Czech President Václav Klaus, and receive an honorary degree at Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts.
The Cambodian king lived in Prague between 1962 and 1975, and has called the Czech Republic his second home. He came to the Czech capital as a nine-year-old to study ballet, and speaks fluent Czech. During his last visit to Prague in 2006, he became the first royal to be awarded the freedom of the city.
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03/14/2010
An institute for disabled children in Brno, southern Moravia, is facing allegations of abuse. 22 clients of the Kociánka social care institute for disabled youth filed a petition last week, accusing the management of limiting visiting hours, prohibiting the clients from leaving the premises, and in one instance, of beating a client suffering an epileptic fit. The petitioners also complain about obsolete methods used by the staff. While the institute’s management rejected any such allegations, the Czech labour and social affairs ministry said it would investigate the issue.
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03/14/2010
The Communist Youth Union, a small far-left group whose ban was recently overturned by a court, has officially resumed its activities, the ČTK news agency reported. The group held its re-constituent convention in Prague on Saturday, two months after a local court overturned a ban imposed on the group by the Czech Interior Ministry. Members of the Communist Youth Union said the group’s return was “a great victory for the communist movement in the Czech Republic”.
The Communist Youth Union formed in the early 1990s; by 2003 its agenda became so radical that the parliamentary Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia distanced itself from the group. The union openly called, among other things, for the removal of private ownership through revolutionary means. It was banned by the Czech Interior Ministry in 2006 but a court in Prague lifted the ban in January this year.
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03/14/2010
Strong winds and snow caused problems on roads in many parts of the country over the weekend. Northern Bohemia saw up to 25 cm of fresh snow on Saturday, and it’s still snowing there. In eastern Bohemia, strong winds created snowdrifts on a number of roads, some of which had to be closed for traffic. Meteorologists warn that these conditions will continue for the rest of the weekend and snowdrifts are likely to appear on roads all over the country. Fresh snow has also complicated traffic in southern Bohemia and southern Moravia. On Sunday night, ice is expected to form on roads across the Czech Republic as temperatures will fall below zero.
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03/14/2010
A gay and lesbian NGO from Brno petitioned the minister of human rights and minorities, Michael Kocáb, asking him to support adoption rights for gays and lesbians, the ČTK news agency reported on Sunday. The STUD association believes that the current arrangement, which only allows married couples to adopt children, is not fair. Some 2,000 people signed the petition. Minister Kocáb had earlier suggested this right be extended to include adoptions by individual foster parents.
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