• Weather
    12/04/2017

    Tuesday should be mostly cloudy with a chance of snowfall. Daytime temperatures should reach highs of around 3 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Remains of footbridge to be assessed by expert
    12/04/2017

    The remains of a footbridge which collapsed in Prague on Saturday leaving four people injured – two of them seriously – are being transported to a nearby concreting plant for expert inspection. The news was confirmed on Monday by Prague Deputy Mayor Petr Dolínek. Expert assessment should reveal what caused the bridge, which stood between Prague’s Troja with Císařský Island, to collapse into the Vltava River.

    Prague City Hall is considering closing down several more bridges for emergency repairs, among them the Radotin footbridge and Hlavkův Bridge¨. Mr Dolínek rejected claims that Prague City Hall had neglected maintenance of the city’s bridges, saying Prague had invested 1.2 billion crowns into the maintenance of bridges between 2014 and 2017.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Babiš says ANO will ask Communists to nominate someone other than Ondráček to head standing parliamentary commission overseeing GIBS
    12/04/2017

    The country’s next prime minister, Andrej Babiš, has said his ANO party will ask the Communist Party to nominate someone other than Zdeněk Ondráček to head the standing parliamentary commission overseeing GIBS, the police general inspectorate. He made the statement in reaction to a letter from presidential candidate Michal Horáček asking him to use his political clout to block the nomination.

    Mr Ondráčka, Horáček wrote, was a member of an emergency police unit which clashed with demonstrators protesting against Czechoslovakia’s communist regime in 1989. Mr Babiš called Ondráček’s nomination “problematic”.

    He added that all post-election dealing on lower house posts had been led by his deputy, Jaroslav Faltýnek, and that concrete names had not been part of negotiations.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Situation on roads complicated by fresh snowfall and freezing rain
    12/04/2017

    Fresh snowfall in South Bohemia complicated conditions on the road for motorists on Monday morning although all routes remained open. Areas which saw heavier snowfall included Šumava and areas near Blatná and Strakonice.

    Freezing rain also affected roads in Silesia-Moravia.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Two homeless people, in separate incidents, freeze to death
    12/04/2017

    Police were called to the scenes of two unrelated deaths in Prague at the weekend. In the incidents both men, middle-aged and likely living on the street, are believed to have frozen to death. One of the deceased was found in Prague's Bohnice and the other in Prague 5.

    Police have ordered autopsies in both cases.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Average wage rises to over 29,000 crowns
    12/04/2017

    The average wage in the Czech Republic rose by 6.8 percent to 29,050 crowns in the 3Q, according to figures released by the Czech Statistics Office. This represents an average monthly increase of 1,840 crowns.

    The Statistics Office notes in this respect that the average wage is driven by salaries in Prague and two thirds of employees in the country get below-average salaries. The average wage in Moravia is 26,498 crowns.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Minority government line-up confirmed
    12/04/2017

    Prime minister designate Andrej Babiš has confirmed the final name in the line-up of his minority cabinet. The Education Ministry is to be headed by its current deputy for research and development, Robert Plaga.

    The minority government is made up of ANO party members and unaffiliated experts. It should be appointed to office by the president on December 13th, but Babiš said the cabinet would hold its first meeting this week. Mr. Babiš himself will be appointed prime minister on Wednesday, December 6th.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    12/03/2017

    Monday should be overcast around the country, with rain or snow showers and day temperatures between 1 and 5 degrees Celius.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Valuable 16th century herbarium retrieved
    12/03/2017

    Police have retrieved a valuable 16th century herbarium that disappeared from the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.

    The book was confiscated during a raid in the home of a Ukranian national who is suspected of illegal drugs production and bribery.

    The herbarium had been missing for 26 years. The Ukrainian claimed to have bought it on the black market. Its value is estimated at 150,000 crowns.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Judoka Lukáš Krpálek wins silver in Tokyo
    12/03/2017

    Czech judoka Lukáš Krpálek won silver in the over 100 kg category at the Grand Slam in Tokyo on Sunday. The Olympics gold medallist from Rio in the -100 category fought valiantly for the gold but succumbed to Japan’s Yusei Ogawa for whom it was the first gold medal at a grand slam. Krpálek had been out for five month because of a knee injury.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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