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02/22/2009
Hockey goalie Tomáš Vokoun, of the Florida Panthers, stopped 41 shots by league leaders Boston on Saturday to lead his team to a 2:0 win. The game was his third shutout over the last ten days. In the game he also assisted on his team’s first goal.
In other action, the Canadien’s Roman Hamrlík earned two assists in Montreal’s 5:2 win over Ottawa. Czech forward Tomáš Plekanec, also of the Canadiens, scored the game’s opening goal.
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02/22/2009
Hooliganism left its mark as the Czech premier football league resumed on Sunday, with Brno and Ostrava fans clashing in Brno’s stadium. Ahead of the match, Baník Ostrava fans broke through to the Brno section, leading to the fighting. The police had to be called in to take control of the situation. One fan was hospitalised in the incident, the internet news site idnes reported. The match was the first to implement new rules which leave individual clubs responsible for hiring private security. Under an agreement signed last week, the police should only be called in when situations get out of hand. The opening game between Brno and Ostrava resumed after a half-hour’s delay.
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02/21/2009
The Czech presidency of the European Union has condemned planned Israeli settlement activities in the vicinity of the Adam settlement in the West Bank. In a statement issued on Friday, the presidency urged Israel to reconsider the planned construction which would violate international law. Continued settlement activities represent a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East, and severely damage the prospect of the creation of a viable Palestinian state, the Czech EU presidency said.
Israel plans to build another 1,400 housing units near the existing settlement of Adam in the West Bank. According to the EU presidency statement, Israel built more than 1,200 settlement structures last year, nearly 750 of them permanent.
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02/21/2009
Czech NGOs say the Czech Republic has the highest number of children placed in institutional care of all European countries. Around 23,000 children are growing up in various types of institutions. The NGOs’ representatives told reporters on Saturday that more than half of all children in institutional care were taken away from their families because of poor living and social conditions. This could have been prevented by better social work with such families. The experts also said that Czech children’s care homes should be transformed into family-type facilities with the maximum of ten children, instead of the current 45.
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02/21/2009
Around 40 supporters of the small far-right Workers’ Party gathered in the town of Postoloprty, northern Bohemia, on Saturday in order to deal with alleged Romany crime. The party leadership said a number of local citizens asked them to help stop petty crime and breaches of public order attributed to the town’s Romany minority. The far-right activists spent some two hours in the town, talking to locals and distributing leaflets. No disturbances were reported. The Workers’ Party originally planned to stage a march through the town but it was banned by local authorities.
The government is seeking the banning of the Worker’s Party following attacks on a Romany community last November. The request is now being reviewed by the Supreme Administrative Court.
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02/21/2009
The Czech culture ministry has slashed funds for a planned research library building in Ostrava, northern Moravia. The decision was made after the Czech government agreed last month that all ministries must maintain a reserve to cover unexpected expenditures caused by the economic crisis. The ministry was planning to spend 215 million crowns, or nearly 10 million US dollars, on the new library building.
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02/21/2009
Czech Communists have come up with proposal of how to save collapsing companies: their employees should be allowed to take them over, and try to keep them afloat themselves. Communist MEP Miloslav Randsdorf told journalists on Saturday that if this scheme, known as Employee Stock Ownership Programmes, was introduced, workers could pay for their employer’s shares with funds collecting the firm’s future benefits. The Communists wanted to introduce the programme in the past but never found enough support from other political parties.
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02/21/2009
Prague's biggest funfair Matějská pouť opened its gates at the city’s exhibition grounds in Holešovice on Saturday, despite bad weather. Originally a pilgrimage to the nearby church of St Matthew, the fair now offers more than 130 attractions including a giant water slide, a roller coaster and many carousels.
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02/21/2009
An express train killed a horse that got stuck on rail tracks during a carnival in a Bohemian village on Saturday. The horse was led across the tracks in Zadní Třebáň, some 30 km southwest of Prague, during the community’s carnival when one of its hooves got stuck in the tracks. People ran to warn the driver of an approaching train; however it did not manage to stop in time and hit the horse. No people were injured in the accident which caused several hours of delays on the busy Prague – Beroun railway line.
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02/21/2009
Czech midfielder and former national team’s captain Tomáš Rosický might appear on Arsenal reserve side in three weeks’ time, the club’s head coach Arsene Wenger said on Saturday. The Czech star underwent two knee operations last year, missing Euro 2008. He last played for Arsenal over a year ago.
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