NEWS OF THE DAY: Court accepts indictment for “Racket” case
The Council for indictment evaluation of the Basic Criminal Court Skopje today accepted the indictment for the “Racket” case, rejecting the complaints of Bojan Jovanovski, Katica Janeva and Zoran Milevski.
“The Council for indictment evaluation of the Basic Criminal Court Skopje, which is acting upon the evaluation of the BPPO for organized crime and corruption CO.no.84/19, and acting upon the complaints submitted by B.J, K.J and Z.M, at a non-public session on November 8, 2019, without the presence of the parties in the proceedings, decided as follows: The complaints of the suspects are rejected as unfounded, while the indictment is upheld in its entirety”, announced Basic Criminal Court Skopje.
MON and SONK reach agreement on salary increase for teachers as of January 1, 2020
Employees in primary, secondary and higher education will receive the new 10% increase in salaries as of January 1, 2020, was agreed at today’s meeting in the Ministry of Education and Science between Minister Arber Ademi and representatives of the Union on Education, Science and Culture (SONK), led by their president Jakim Nedelkov.
After an hour and a half meeting, Minister Ademi stated that this is a historic moment, as this is the third increase following the ones teachers received last and this September of five percent each, emphasizing that it is a cumulative increase of 21.3 percent in one mandate. Additional 1.4 billion denars will be allocated in the Budget for the payment that is to start in January instead of April as was previously proposed.
Draft-amendments to Electoral Code submitted – one constituency at parliamentary elections and open lists at local elections
The Initiative for one constituency today submitted two draft amendments to the Electoral Code, announced today MP Liljana Popovska at a press conference.
“In the first proposal, we requested a change from six electoral districts to a single district, and in the second one we also included open lists in local elections, equal number of women and men both in local and parliamentary elections and a mechanism for electing parity representation of council members on the lists”, stated Popovska.
FLASH NEWS
After the textile cluster made their demands to the public and the institutions, inspired by the proposal for an increase in the minimum wage, the textile workers in organization of “Loud Textile Worker” from Stip have also made a list of demands, of which part refer to the institutions, while most of them to employers who violate workers’ rights. On that occasion, “Loud Textile Worker” together with workers of the textile industry are announcing a protest on November 10, Sunday, starting at 12 noon at the Astibo factory, more specifically, at the location where most of the textile confections in Stip are located.
Investing in young innovators is an investment in our future. It is in the country’s interest for Macedonian inventors to find their place in our scientific and educational institutions and to actively contribute to the country, said today President Stevo Pendarovski, at the opening of MAKINOVA 2019 and ECONOVA 2019.
On the sidelines of the “Strategic Dialogue on the Western Balkans” organized by the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Dimitrov today met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Josep Borell, nominated for the position of EU High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Commission, as well as with Clément Beaune, Adviser for Europe to President Emmanuel Macron.
An exceptionally high percentage of parents, which ranges from 82% to 96%, agree for young people to study topics that are part of overall sexual education, shows the research conducted by the NGO HERA.
The Parliament needs to finalize the election of the members of the Council of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and of the public service MRT as soon as possible, since as of February it will be dissolved due to early parliamentary elections, and also for the Agency for Electronic Communications to be even more transparent, among else, for the current dismissal of the management to end the practice of donations.
The international call for tender published on the 15th of last month for selection of technology for removal of HCH-waste (lindane and its isomers) from the OHIS plant site in Skopje, which was supposed to be closed on the 11th of this month, has been extended until December 16 this year.
CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES
Another dynamic seminar on transparency and responsibility to be held in Kavadarci
CIVIL is announcing the third regional seminar on transparency and responsible political processes that will be held on November 17, in Kavadarci.
These regional seminars of CIVIL are an excellent opportunity for all citizens who would like to actively be involved in social life as a corrective of the institutions and the government.
Applicants from the following municipalities of the Vardar region have the right to participate: Veles, Lozovo, Sveti Nikole, Gradsko, Demir Kapija, Kavadarci, Negotino, Rosoman and Caska.
OPINION
Macron in Trump’s and Putin’s embrace
“By the way, this ‘little Schengen’ irresistibly reminds me of a Quasimodo-Yugoslavian idea that after the fall of Yugoslavia was strongly promoted here by Srgjan Kerim, with emphasized French-Serbian support. At that time, such persistence created certain confusions even with Gligorov. I really am curious what structures are around Zaev that are now “warming” him up for a similar idea? (Is my memory not that great or didn’t Zaev have an apocryphal meeting with Kerim recently in the US…?), writes Ordanoski.
Gypsies falling out of the sky
“A day or two ago, really ugly news came out in the media. About discriminatory insults against an entire ethnic community of ours. Someone out there in those educational corridors, or someone out there has deliberately planted contents in which the Roma are called Gypsies. And if it were only that. But also that they are liars, lazybones, slackers. And that they are filthy, beggars, homeless, bums, thieves. A picturesque content noted, but literate, let’s say in a kind of an artistic creation. In “Macedonian humorous folk tales”. What nice humor, in some kind of school reading a hundred years ago. Mocking laughter for eleven, twelve-year-old children. And education selectors have really nailed the choice. Real educational hit. So discriminatory, disparaging, humiliating, traumatic”, writes Zoran Ivanov.
They themselves will sink in the decay of time
“That struggle with time and with people’s memories of what criminal minds are doing is useless. These are dark characters that we see everywhere around us and every day, people whose sole purpose is to get rich and to escape from their well-deserved punishment. No single price, no single sacrifice is high for them, not even the lives and dignity of people, not even the dignity and progress of the country, not even its survival. They work persistently on destroying the country for which they say they would die for, taking selfies with three little fingers, and whining and begging in courtrooms, making excuses that they had only carryied water…”, writes Xhabir Deralla.
Angela Petrovska in cooperation with: Biljana Jordanovska, Diana Tahiri, Маја Ivanovska, Zoran Ivanov, Saso Ordanoski and Xhabir Deralla.
Translation: Natasa Cvetkovska
