yesterday, 17:00 GMTThe municipality Ölfus and Icelandic Real Estate Ltd. have signed a letter of intent regarding planned developments at the hotel and recreation center in Hafnarvík at Leirur in Þorlákshöfn. The company has allotted land for construction for up to 180 rooms for a hotel and recreation center as well as small houses.
yesterdayAn underwater craft was searching all night and until ten o’clock yesterday morning for Ekasit Thasaphong, which fell off the liner Sighvati GK-57 off the Garðskagi peninsula on Saturday.
yesterdayIceland, along with Norway, the European Union, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the UK, has agreed that the maximum catch in mackerel next year will be 782,066 tonnes and it was signed yesterday. The maximum catch is 13 thousand tonnes fewer than this year and in accordance with the recommendations of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) on maximum catches.
two days agoA member of staff at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade who was responsible for a pornographic video filmed at Skógarhlíð, the headquarters of the Fire Department, has been suspended.
7 DecA very strange case was all over the news yesterday regarding a pornographic video footage of Icelandic people that seemed to be shot inside of an ambulance, and a screenshot was sent to the Fire Department.
6 DecA pump truck and an ambulance had to be called out after several boys had waded into lake Elliðavatn yesterday and were stranded there and couldn’t get back.
5 DecThe search for the man who fell into the sea off Garðskagi on the tip of the Reykjanes peninsula just before five o’clock Saturday has not yet been successful. Fifteen ships and boats, along with two helicopters, were participating in search operations in the area on Saturday.
3 DecHilmar Oddsson’s film, ‘Driving Mum’, received the Grand Prix, the PÖFF’s main-prize, at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, last weekend. The film stars Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson and Kristbjörg Kjeld, with important roles played by Hera Hilmarsdóttir and Tómas Lemarquis. Hilmar Oddsson is the director and he also wrote the script and Hlín Jóhannesdóttir is the producer.
3 DecA seven year old child is among those critically injured after a severe crash on Hnífsdalsvegur last night. The child and two other people were taken to hospital in Reykjavík in an air ambulance.
1 Dec“The HIV pandemic is sadly not over, and it is still stigmatized,” says Einar Þór Jónsson, the director of the HIV Association in an interview with Morgunblaðið today, but today is the International AIDS Day of the World. There are now four decades since the first person in Iceland was diagnosed with HIV.
30 NovA man attacked his ex-wife with an axe in front of Dalskóli in Úlfarsárdalur valley this afternoon. This is confirmed by Margeir Sveinsson the assistant chief police officer to mbl.is.
30 NovThe musician Salka Sól Eyfeld knitted an Icelandic sweater for the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with the help of her friends. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir took the sweater to Ukraine, but she is visiting the country in the company of other ministers from Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries and they have already met Zelensky and some other members of the Ukranian Cabinet.
29 Nov“It’s unbelievable,” says Sigurður Ó Lárusson, who is a computer programmer and lives in Burstabrekka in Hagi in the southern part of the country.
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