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Teachers ready for June protests
Teachers ready for June protests
Valdis Dombrovskis says Ministry’s offer is reasonable....
RIGA - Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (Unity) hopes that the situation with teachers, who have threatened to strike, will be solved, reports LETA. “At the moment, the Education and Science Ministry is in talks with the teachers’ labor union, and I myself will also be involved in the discussion. I hope we will be able to solve this situation,” the prime minister said on May 10. Dombrovskis also confirmed that the Education and Science Ministry’s proposals in regard to teacher salaries are “reasonable, from a budget perspective.” Finance Minister A...  Full story...
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 May 10, 2012 - Lenders return to review budgetary compliance...
Lenders return to review budgetary compliance
RIGA - A post-monitoring mission from the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission will be visiting Latvia from May 7 through May 16, reports LETA. On May 15, the mission will meet with Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (Unity). During the visit, the mission will lay emphasis on the implementation of the convergence program and other agreements reached with the international le...
 May 10, 2012 - Aboltina praises freedom fighters in independence ...
Aboltina praises freedom fighters in independence struggle
RIGA - In her special address to parliament on May 4, marking the 22nd anniversary of the Declaration of the Renewal of Independence of the Republic of Latvia, Saeima Speaker Solvita Aboltina emphasized the role Latvia’s minorities had in helping to regain independence, who stood side-by-side with Latvians during the Barricades, as well as fought side-by-side with Latvians during the figh...
 May 02, 2012 - Hospital cleanup underway...
Hospital cleanup underway
RIGA - Over 100 persons, mainly personnel, gathered at Stradins University Clinical Hospital Ward #15 on April 25 to protest a rumored Health Ministry plan to overhaul management at the hospital, reports LETA. The staff members stopped their work for 15 minutes, but there were no banners or placards, no shouts or chants. They did express their viewpoint on why the current management should be r...
 Apr 25, 2012 - Zatlers is here to stay...
Zatlers is here to stay
RIGA - The Zatlers Reform Party (ZRP) is justifying itself as a ‘party of action,’ the party’s leader, Valdis Zatlers, believes, reports LETA. In an interview with the newspaper Neatkariga, Zatlers said that the list of the party’s accomplishments over the past five months is large enough. “Many of those things we promised, we have fulfilled. But this was the e...
 Apr 18, 2012 - Former ZRP member blasts Zatlers...
Former ZRP member blasts Zatlers
RIGA - The fact that Zatlers Reform Party’s (ZRP) rating has dropped from 20.8 percent on the 11th Saeima election day to 3.6 percent now proves that the party’s leader, Valdis Zatlers, is a thing of the past, independent Saeima member Klavs Olsteins said in an interview with LETA. Ministers that ZRP has delegated to work in the government have dissociated themselves from the pa...
 Apr 11, 2012 - Ministries in the dark on Spanish deal...
Ministries in the dark on Spanish deal
RIGA - The Finance Ministry is concerned about the recently signed train procurement contract between Latvia’s Pasazieru Vilciens (PV) and Spain’s Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) and its terms, reports LETA. The Ministry says that even though previously requested, PV has not acquainted it with the new contract, only increasing concerns and various speculation that t...
 Apr 04, 2012 - Assaulted journalist puts little faith in police...
Assaulted journalist puts little faith in police
RIGA - Internet portal kompromat.lv journalist Leonids Jakobsons, who was assaulted and appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds in the evening of March 29, is currently recovering in Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, reports LETA. Jakobsons, shot at and badly beaten, says that he lost a lot of blood and that he barely survived the attack. His life is not in danger. State Police ...
 Mar 28, 2012 - Free Democrats fight debt slavery...
Free Democrats fight debt slavery
RIGA - The association Free Democrats, recently established by the group of six independent Saeima members led by MP Klavs Olsteins, does not intend to become a political party by the next Saeima elections, said the association’s chairwoman MP Elina Silina in an interview with Latvian State Television on March 26, reports LETA. Silina was evasive regarding the possibility, explaining that...

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 May 16, 2012 - Austerity effects evaluated...
RIGA - From May 14 to May 18, UN Independent Expert Cephas Lumina will be on a visit to Latvia to evaluate the impact of the external debt burden a...
 May 16, 2012 - Kraslava quits LGA...
DAUGAVPILS - The Kraslava Region Council on May 10 unanimously decided to pull out of the Latvian Local Governments’ Association (LGA), repor...
 May 16, 2012 - Jaunzeme - Grende ready to lis...
RIGA - Culture Minister Zaneta Jaunzeme-Grende (All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK), reacting to the strained relations and criticism ...
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