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08/02/2014
A man in Ostrava has turned in part of an anti-tank cannon under a general amnesty on illegally held weapons. The man brought the upper part of the Czechoslovak produced weapon, which weighs more than 250kg, to the Ostrava police’s weapons and dangerous materials department, a spokesperson for the force said on Saturday.
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08/02/2014
Lukáš Černohorský has been elected chairman of the Czech Pirate Party at a congress in Prague. Mr. Černohorský has to date been the head of the political party in the Moravian Silesian Region. He replaces Ivan Bartoš, who stood down in June after the Pirate Party did poorly in elections to the European Parliament the previous month. The grouping, which champions the free sharing of information and internet privacy, has no seats in either chamber of the Czech Parliament.
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08/02/2014
Fresh charges have been filed against the former director of Prague’s Na Homolce hospital, Vladimír Dbalý, and his onetime deputy, Michal Toběrný, Lidovy noviny reported on Saturday. The two, who were already under investigation for manipulating a CZK 57 million digital medical records tender, have now been charged with demanding a kickback in connection with the CZK 140 million purchase of a Leksell Gamma Knife in 2009. Some estimates put the amount paid at around a third more than the normal price in other countries, Lidovy noviny said.
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08/02/2014
The javelin thrower Vítězslav Veselý is not taking part in this weekend’s national championships in Ostrava due to injury but should be fit in time for the European Athletics Championships in Zurich in just under two weeks’ time, his manager said on Saturday. Veselý, who is 31 and is trained by javelin legend Jan Železný, took gold at the 2012 European Championships.
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08/02/2014
Most areas of the Czech Republic will be hit by storms on Sunday, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute has warned. Some of the storms will be heavy, with hailstones and gales expected. Flash floods may occur in some areas. The storm warning applies for Bohemia from 10AM to 8PM on Sunday and for Moravia from 1PM to 11PM.
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08/01/2014
The disappearing foam spray used in football’s World Cup in Brazil will also make its debut in Czech first and second division matches from September. The head of the Czech referee’s committee, Dagmar Damková, confirmed the news to Czech Television on Friday. She said deliveries of the foam spray to make sure players keep the required distance during free kicks were being awaited from Argentina. Damková has been lobby for the innovation for the past six years. English, Italian, and Spanish leagues will also now be using the foam spray.
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08/01/2014
The state budget was in credit to the tune of 4.5 billion crowns at the end of July compared with the 1.5 billion crowns in the black recorded at the end of June, the Ministry of Finance announce on Friday. The figures are a reflection of the recovery of the Czech economy and the higher revenues pouring into government coffers and lower spending on unemployment and social benefits. Even so, the monthly budget figures were still negative up to the end of May. Last year at the end of July the budget deficit was 27.6 billion crowns. The government has targeted a deficit ceiling of 112 billion crowns for 2014.
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08/01/2014
Czech government and opposition politicians have agreed to continue discussions about the shape of a new civil service law on Monday. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said he was willing to talk about the modalities of the new law but not the principles. The government conceded Thursday and agreed to open up discussion with the main opposition parties TOP 09 and Civic Democrats about the changes they want to see in the proposed framework. Some of their main demands centre on the top official tasked with managing the new civil service. Prague is under heavy pressure from the European Commission to put in place a new law creating an independent and de-politicized civil service as the last EU country to have such a code. The lower house of parliament will convene again next Friday.
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08/01/2014
Minister of Culture Daniel Herman led a commemoration on Friday at the site of the World War Two Lety internment camp for Roma which was created in July 1942. Herman recalled that the labour and internment camp for the Roma population from Bohemia camp was run by Czech officials from the Protectorate police force and that their brutality was equal to anything carried out by the Germans. Most of those who died at the camp were children. Those who survived were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz death camp. Herman said he and minister for human rights Jiří Dienstbier were working on plans so that part of the site of the camp would no longer be a pig farm but a suitable commemorative site.
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08/01/2014
The Czech hospital at the centre of one of the worst murder cases in the country’s history does not have to pay compensation of 8.8 million crowns to the remaining family of one of the victims, a court ruled on Friday. The so-called heparin murderer Petr Zelenka worked at the hospital at Havlíčkův Brod and administered deadly doses of the anti blood clotting agent. He was convicted of murdering seven patients and trying to kill another 10 and given a life sentence. The victim’s family claimed the hospital should have reacted faster to the first suspicious cases.
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