THE SLOVAK Catholic Schools Association (ZKŠS) have issued a statement in defence of staff from the United Primary School in the Bratislava borough of Karlova Ves who are facing charges relating to responsibility for the death of a six-year-old schoolboy called Matúš, who was crushed by a snow-laden tree branch that fell on him in the schoolyard last winter.
A PICTURE of a Slovak man who is turning 100-years-old has received more than 3,500 wishes in several languages after his grandson Peter Holík published his photo on social networks.
A COMPANY called Poľnohospodárska pôda (Agricultural Land) which has been buying up plots on which Jaguar Land Rover is planning to build a factory in Nitra, intends to file a criminal complaint for slander against the non-parliamentary Sieť party leader Radoslav Procházka, the TASR newswire learnt on August 27.
THE DIRECTOR of the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Valika Maďarová, faced calls for her resignation after the museum lost a picture from Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup Can series. However the police have now recovered the pictures, the SITA newswire reported.
SEEING little help from state Jozef Šóth, the father of an autistic son Andrej, and other parents created a special facility for autistic adults in Drahuškovo in 2007. The centre fights for its own survival year to year.
LEAKING toxic pollution from the old chemical waste dump in Bratislava’s Vrakuňa neighbourhood has already contaminated local ground water and continues to spread.
DOZENS of refugees have lost their lives near the Slovak border today, in a van carrying the brand of a Slovak company.
THE STATE stands ready to start buying claims from construction giant Váhostav SK’s creditors as of next week, Finance Minister Peter Kažimír said after the cabinet session held on August 26.
After a complex accreditation procedure five universities in Slovakia may lose their titles. Education Minister Juraj Draxler along with Ľubor Fišera, the head of the Accreditation Commission, presented results of the accreditation procedure of 22 high schools on August 27.
CRAFTSMEN skilled in all imaginable as well as unimaginable Slovak traditional crafts will gather from all over Slovakia to demonstrate their skills and sell products in Bratislava during the Craftsmen Days festival to be held during the first weekend of September.
AS MANY as 39 companies from Slovakia have made it into the CEE TOP 500 companies of central and eastern European regions, composed by Coface.
THE CURRENT crisis in milk production not only causes losses for farmers, but it may also result in some of them closing down their businesses, according to the Slovak Agricultural and Food Chamber (SPPK).
THE GLOBAL exhibition displaying the legendary ship Titanic as well as the time when it was built can be seen in Bratislava’s Incheba complex until the beginning of December. Comprising 17 rooms and almost 3,000 square meters, it takes visitors on board the most famous and luxurious ship of its time, and also describes the fates of passengers, both survivors and victims.
THE SLOVAK government is still interested in increasing its 34-percent stake in electricity utility company Slovenské Elektrárne (SE), even though Italian concern Enel - which holds 66 percent in SE - announced earlier this week that it has launched exclusive talks on selling its stake to Energetický industrial holding (EPH) owned by Czech and Slovak entrepreneurs Daniel Křetínský and Patrik Tkáč, and J&T financial group.
Speculators who have been buying up land from people with an eye to subsequent sales to make way for a new Jaguar Land Rover plant near Nitra may well make a net profit of up to €2 million, according to the head of the non-parliamentary Sieť party Radoslav Procházka.
AFTER several weeks of summer vacation the government had a productive session on August 26 passing several major changes in legislation including the introduction of the criminal prosecution of firms, the creation of a new audit office and new cigarette warning labels, the TASR newswire reported.
