Tag: Tetovo

While September 8 is national holiday in Republic of North Macedonia, traditionally used for celebration of Independence Day, it's also an anniversary 2021 Tetovo hospital fire. At the second anniversary of the tragic event, the relatives of the victims staged a protest against impunity and corruption that they blame for the loss of 14 lives of their loved ones. "Today,...

The court hearing about the deadly fire in September 2021 in the modular COVID-19 hospital in Tetovo, North Macedonia, yesterday was postponed for the second time. Fourteen people died in the incident. Two of the defendants, Dr. Boban Vuchevski and the hospital's former Financial Director Artam Etemi, appeared in the court without attorneys to represent them. Even though they had...

The government of North Macedonia at yesterday's session adopted a Decree for adopting the Agreement for state aid concluded between the government of the Republic of North Macedonia, represented by the Directorate for Technological Industrial Development Zones and Next.e.GO Mobile SE, the independent German electric car manufacturer. The multimillion dollar greenfield investment from Next.e.GO Mobile SE from Aachen, Germany, will...

“Violence against women” is understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women and shall mean all acts of gender‐based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts," state Article 3 of the Council of Europe Convention on...

Serbs as well as some members of the Serbian-Macedonian associations in Polog are against the invasion of any country and are in favor of preserving the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. But some of them, despite condemnation from many countries and organizations, as well as indications that misunderstandings should be resolved through diplomacy, still believe that Russian President...

Educational inclusion is a process that lasts more than two decades, which is being delayed not only due to bad laws but also due to low public awareness, Truthmeter.mk writes.   Author: Zoran Dimovski   Forty students with disabilities from Polog, starting this school year have educational assistants who provide support in learning, within the schools where they attend classes. This type of support...

Zoran Zaev, the Prime minister of North Macedonia, in a press conference yesterday announced that he will not accept the resignations of the Health Minister Venko Filipche and the Deputy Health Minister Ilir Hasani about the fire at the modular COVID hospital in Tetovo that claimed the lives of 14 people. "Regarding the рesignations offered by Health Minister Venko Filipche...

The deadly fire in the modular COVID hospital in Tetovo which killed 14 people was a result of a short circuit in a cord of a defibrillator, announced the Basic Public Prosecution - Tetovo, citing Ministry of Interior's (MOI) forensic report. After the electric short circuit, the fire broke out in the outlet box of the extension cord where,...

With one minute silence as respect toward the victims in the tragic fire at the modular covid center in Tetovo and as a sign of compassion with their families, at today's session, the Government adopted a decision to declare a three day period of mourning on the territory of the whole state. During today's session, the Government adopted a...

The tragedy that struck Tetovo, North Macedonia, last night, when blaze destroyed the modular COVID-19 hospital killing 14 of the 26 patients that were treated in the premises, is breaking news in the region and condolences are arriving from all sides. The EU Ambassador to North Macedonia, David Geer, expressed sorrow over the tragedy that struck the people of Tetovo. "Our...

The Office of the President of the Republic of North Macedonia cancelled all the planned events for today, due to the tragedy in the city of Tetovo yesterday evening, when 14 patients lost their lived in the deadly blaze that engulfed the modular COVID-19 hospital. Previously, the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, a number of government ministries and...

The Ministry of Health of North Macedonia informs that in yesterday evening's deadly fire that destroyed the modular COVID-19 hospital in the city of Tetovo, 14 people lost their lives. Before the blaze, 26 people were being treated in the COVID-19 centre and 12 of them were saved by the emergency services. The survivors are being treated in the...

Prosecutors in North Macedonia have issued orders for post mortem and identification of the bodies of the 14 victims of the blaze the engulfed the COVID-19 modular hospital in Tetovo last night, and an investigation is ongoing whether there are other victims, announced the Basic Public Prosecution - Skopje. "DNA analysis is necessary to establish the identity of some of...

Three prosecutors from Tetovo and two from Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, have started investigation about the fire that raged in the COVID-19 modular hospital in Tetovo and burned to the ground last night, with at least 10 people losing their lives in the blaze. Apart from the Prosecution, the Government of North Macedonia also issued a statement, noting...

The photograph of an Audi car whose car hood is propped with a rifle resembling a Kalashnikov (AK-47) is claimed to be taken in Tetovo, and as such is shared on social networks, and was published by some of the media, informs Truthmeter.mk in its latest analysis of a Facebook post. But the photograph was not taken in Tetovo....

Everyday they wage a war for human lives. At the Clinical Center of Tetovo, the medical personnel is achieving the impossible for the patients that are hospitalized in the COVID-19 ward, helping them overcome this unfathomable sickness and return to their families.     Wishing to witness the situation of the patients that were hospitalized in this ward,...

The State Environmental Inspectorate of North Macedonia fined the company Paper Mill from Kochani €20 000 and tasked it to install a filter in a period of two months to prevent the air pollution with PM10 particles from its smokestacks. The municipality of Tetovo may also be fined, because despite the warnings that the reservoir for drinking water in...

There is still no action by the authorities towards the introduction of a combined travel pass for both trains and public transportation, that would be used by citizens who travel everyday between Skopje and the nearby cities such as Veles, Kumanovo, and Tetovo. The public entreprise Railways of RNM- Transport informed Meta.mk that there haven’t been any discussions with...

From 1st of January to 30th of April this year there were 298 complaints about various categories of hate speech lodged at the web platform govornaomraza.mk, shows the monitoring of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, carried out with a special focus on three pilot-municipalities: Shtip, Bitola and Tetovo. "There was a notable increase of the number of complaints compared...

Potholes, sunken tarmac and lack of hard shoulders for emergency stops is the current condition of the Tetovo-Gostivar Motorway, which is one of the busiest motorways in the country. Citizens pay 60 denars toll (one way), and in return the get a motorway in bad condition.  According to the information from the Public Enterprise "Makedonijapat”, average annual daily traffic...