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02/04/2015
A court in Olomouc has confirmed life sentences given to two defendants in the so-called methanol affair. The original sentences on two members of the Zlín branch who were found guilty of mixing the alcoholic cocktail that killed at least 47 people were confirmed on Wednesday. The original sentences on Rudolf Fian and Tomáš Křepela were handed out last May. An appeal by seven others in the affair was allowed in January and a regional court will have to hear the evidence again. Deadly methanol was mixed with bootleg liquor by a far reaching network which was uncovered when the first deaths occurred in 2012.
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02/04/2015
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said that the government does not want to pay an estimated 1.7 billion crowns in back pay to judges and other civil servants. He has said that he hopes the Constitution Court will take up the case. The claimed back pay results from a decision in January by the Supreme Court which found that payments had not been calculated on the right basis since 2002. Reopening the case depends in part on an appeal by the Brno court where the case was first heard but its head says that he is in favour of the Supreme Court’s decision.
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02/04/2015
Flu jabs this winter appear to be a lot less effective than in the past for Czechs. The flu virus this year appears to have mutated into a version for which preventive flu jabs appear to be effective in less than half of cases, according to one of the country’s main experts and advisors for one of the biggest Czech network of immunization centres. The new flu variety results in shorter but more extreme infection. In the first week of 2015, the number of flu cases rose by almost 95 percent and those with acute respiratory illnesses by 23 percent, according to the National Referential Laboratory.
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02/04/2015
Czech Airlines (ČSA) is switching its strategy and dropping flights to Russia in favour of new routes to Western Europe. The daily Newspaper Mladá Fronta Dnes reported Wednesday that new routes to Porto, Athens, Liverpool, Bordeaux, and Stavanger, will be announced for the summer season. The five year old policy of concentrating flights to Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union has over the last year hit problems with fewer passengers for flights in both directions. The new timetable should be revealed next week.
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02/04/2015
Around 200 bicycles will be shipped from the Czech Republic to be used by nature park rangers in their bid to protect elephants against poachers. Most of the bicycles will be sent to Chad, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic. The Czech charity Bikes for Africa was created in 2012 and has so far dispatched around 13,000 bicycles to the continent. Some of the bicycles are offered to children so that they can get to school and obtain an education which might turn them away from poaching.
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02/04/2015
A temperature of -29 degrees Celsius was recorded at Rokytská slať near the village of Modrava in the Šumava mountain range of south Bohemia on Tuesday night, a representative of the Hydro-Meteorological Institute in the city of České Budějovice told the Czech News agency. At the Perla weather station at Kvilda in the Šumava’s Prachatice district -27.7 degrees Celsius was registered.
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02/04/2015
Representatives of his office ordered that President Miloš Zeman not be waited on by handicapped servers on a visit to a restaurant on Tuesday, its owner, Jan Srb, told the newspaper Právo. Mr. Srb said his Křinický brewery in the town of Krásná Lípa in Central Bohemia had received instructions from Prague Castle that the president was not to be served at its restaurant by any of its handicapped staff members. They were given some hours off but had to come back later to clean up. Earlier on Tuesday a group of handicapped people had protested against the president over a recent statement that handicapped and able-bodied children should not attend the same schools.
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02/03/2015
Pavel Medek, one of the leading Czech translators from English, has died at the age of 63, a spokesperson for his publishers said. Mr. Medek was well known for translating all seven books in the Harry Potter series in cooperation with his brother Vladimír. He was also an accomplished translator of novels in the crime, fantasy and sci-fi genres, as well as doing the Czech versions of the TV series Red Dwarf and Kojak.
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02/03/2015
Around 30 handicapped people held a protest during a visit by President Miloš Zeman to the small town of Krásná Lípa in Central Bohemia on Tuesday after he said recently that handicapped and able-bodied children should not attend the same schools. One of the organisers of the demonstration, Monika Lampová, told Novinky.cz that just 20 years ago handicapped people were hidden away in the Czech Republic and that integration was the only way forward.
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02/03/2015
The Czech baritone Adam Plachetka is preparing for his debut appearance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday. The 29-year-old will take the part of Masetta in Don Giovanni for 10 performances at the world famous venue. Hospodářské noviny reported on Tuesday that Plachetka was following in a long tradition stretching back to 1906 when tenor Karel Burian became the first Czech to sing at the MET.
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