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Katrín Jakobsdóttir the Prime Minister of Iceland.

Not happy with CEOs' pay increases that far exceed the demands of regular workers

2 Mar 2023 Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir strongly criticizes the high salary increases of CEOs of listed companies in the last year, saying that industry leaders need to go ahead with good examples if workers are asked to take responsibility for maintaining stability by putting forth moderate demands in wage increases.

Losses due to strikes extend outside the capital area

1 Mar 2023 The impact of the ongoing strike by hotel staff in Efling Union extends beyond the capital area. Cancellations at entertainment companies are causing losses, according to Elías Bj. Gíslason, the acting tourism manager.

Bomb threats sent to several locations

24 Feb 2023 Several bomb threats were received by email in several institutions and workplaces in Reykjanesbær this morning, including the Reykjanesbær City Hall and the preschool, Völlur.

Dr. Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, assistant professor in sociology at the University of Iceland. Composite image.

"Does this mean that we mere mortals are in an unsafe and dangerous zone?"

22 Feb 2023 Yesterday Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new subscription channel for Facebook and Instagram users that serves to ensure that users are who they say they are.

Halldór Benjamín Þorbergsson the CEO of the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA).

Propose a "work ban" on Efling Union

20 Feb 2023 The Board of Directors of the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA) has unanimously agreed to propose to its member companies to impose a total workban on Efling Union, and a vote on the proposal will begin today.

Ingólfur Björn Sigurðsson said it was a godsend to get to participate in the Dance project Ball with a great group of people of all ages.

"Now I can choose and that's exciting!"

19 Feb 2023 Ingólfur Björn Sigurðsson started attending dance classes after he stopped working. Afterwards, he was quite unexpectedly invited to participate in a performance with the Icelandic Dance Company. He says the project and the company came to his life like a gift from above.

Ástráður Haraldsson, acting state mediator, talked to journalists before the meeting this morning.

Still ways to go to reach a concensus

17 Feb 2023 Ástráður Haraldsson, the state mediator in the dispute between Efling and the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise, says that there are still ways to go between the parties. Yesterday, however, they found a basis for starting negotiations, but the whole negotiation dispute remains.

Here you can see where the bridge has been pushed aside by the ice flood taking the road apart.

“I heard some really horrific rumblings"

15 Feb 2023 Víðir Már Gíslason and his partner Linda Carlsson are trapped in the town of Barkarstaðir in Svartárdalur valley with four primary school-age children, but the couple runs a sheep farm.

Ásgeir Jónsson governor of the Central Bank of Iceland.

Nominal interest rate system might suffer while indexed loans gain ground

10 Feb 2023 Ásgeir Jónsson governor of the Central Bank says that a nominal interest rate system based on non-indexed loans with variable interest rates will not work if the instability of the Icelandic economy continues.

Søren Sørensson to the left and Erlendur Birgisson are prepared for the trip to Turkey tomorrow and have the high energy chocolate Prins Polo as part of their emergency food packages.

Leave for Turkey tonight

7 Feb 2023 “It’s super frustrating that the weather is treating us like this, but there’s nothing to do. We’re just going to use the time to prepare better,” says Sólveig Þorvaldsdóttir, who leads the Icelandic group headed to the disaster earthquake area in Turkey. As has been reported, at least five thousand people have lost their lives in that country and in Syria after a series of very strong earthquakes. The group of experts in question is headed by the ICE-SAR Association, Landsbjörg and will help in the search.

All the more reason to exercise when you are in your 70s.

Upped her physical game in her 70s

5 Feb 2023 “Everything is possible. People should not see closed doors, it is up to us to open the door,” says Bessí Jóhannsdóttir, who decided to start exercising vigorously when she left her job as a regular history teacher at the Commercial College of Iceland four years ago.

The Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen is very fond of Icelandic nature and says he will be back even though his last trip was very different than planned due to the severe snowstorm in December.

Iceland on the list of favourite destinations

29 Jan 2023 Iain Glen is in a hotel room somewhere in South Africa where he is currently shooting. We found a time in the busy day to chat in a video call over half the world, discussing worlds and spaces; the long career, the Game of Thrones and his acting in the Icelandic film Napoleonic Documentary, which premieres here next Friday. Glen is very easy going and it is like talking to an old friend, not a famous celebrity. He leaned back in his seat, dressed in a red t-shirt and started talking. And the African sun shone through the window.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir the Prime Minister of Iceland thinks she is very unlucky when it comes to canceled flights and perhaps she should warn others when she plans on flying - just in case.

Thinks it is only right to warn people

28 Jan 2023 Iceland's Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir put forth an idea in an Instagram posting today, to always post information about when she has a flight booked, so people can choose other dates to travel, “because it’s quite clear that if I’m on the flight, it will be canceled,” the minister says in the entry.

Rarely sees people under 30 in his store and is closing shop in Höfðabakki

26 Jan 2023 “It was the best-selling fish shop in the country for eleven years,” says Kristján Berg Ásgeirsson, who many people immediately associate with the fish stores Fiskikóngurinn or the Fishing King. He is closing his fish store in Höfðabakki 1 today. He says he is almost flabbergasted when people under thirty appear in the store and says that pizzas have taken over seafood when it comes to the young generation.

Right decision based on the forecast

23 Jan 2023 It was the right decision not to postpone or cancel flights from North America yesterday morning based on the knowledge of the weather at the time, according to Icelandair’s CEO Nils Bogason. He says the weather forecast did not indicate that the weather would be as bad as it actually was.