Tag: Ohrid
Culture 02.07.20 | 12:46

Ohrid Summer Festival will go ahead in August but Ohrid Calling is cancelled

Despite the crisis situation with the coronavirus, the Ohrid Summer Festival will go ahead, starting on August 4 and last through the month. The confirmed artists will be announced in 10 days. Live performances remain on schedule, including in the ancient theater of Ohrid, in Dolni Saraj and the St....
Macedonia 01.07.20 | 11:07

Skopje and Ohrid airports open for international flights

The Skopje and Ohrid international airports open today. Macedonian citizens remain banned from visiting most of Europe, but none the less long lines were reported since morning at the Skopje airport, a number of mainly Wizz Air flights are scheduled to and from Germany, northern Italy, Sweden, Switzerland,...
Macedonia 30.06.20 | 12:47

Fishing boat transporting 200 kilograms of marijuana seized on lake Ohrid

Ohrid lake patrols have seized a major shipment of 200 kilograms of marijuana that was being transported on a fishing boat. A single smuggler was operating the boat that was intercepted around midnight, near the Sateska river, east of Struga. The smuggler abandoned the drugs and fled. It is believed...
Macedonia 25.06.20 | 22:15

Zaev insists that the name change was worth it because NATO now protects Macedonia from its neighbors’ designs

SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev insisted that NATO will protect Macedonia from external threats and this makes the humiliating name change worth it. We never knew who has designs on us, who wants to partition us. Now Article 5 says that if one NATO member state is attacked, all 30 member states are attacked....
Macedonia 25.06.20 | 09:46

Durlovski: The election is a referendum on the future of Macedonia

Igor Durlovski, the head of VMRO-DPMNE’s MP candidate list in the fifth electoral district, addressed the citizens of Ohrid, announcing that the fight against apathy, the campaign to restore values, started in Ohrid. The election is a referendum on the future of Macedonia. It is a chance to tell...
Macedonia 24.06.20 | 22:56

Mickoski: Macedonia is a humiliated country and the Macedonians feel like second class citizens

Macedonia is a humiliated country, where the Macedonians feel like second class citizens. A country with no values, where injustice and lies rule, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski at his first event of the election campaign, held in Ohrid. Of all the promises they made, the one thing SDSM...
Macedonia 24.06.20 | 20:16

VMRO begins its election campaign in Ohrid, Mickoski promises a positive campaign

As is the party’s VMRO-DPMNE is beginning its official election campaign in Ohrid. Party leader Hristijan Mickoski, accompanied by Igor Durlovski, the opera singer and political dissident who leads the VMRO list in the 5th district, promised that the campaign will be positive, based on principles...
Economy 21.06.20 | 10:09

Ohrid hotels set to reopen, but the outlook is bleak

Hotels along lake Ohrid, Macedonia’s main tourism draw, are preparing to reopen on Monday, after four months of coronavirus lockdown. It’s unclear how much interest will there be from the public that is seriously concerned about the Second Wave of the coronavirus. On the other hand, Macedonians...
Macedonia 07.06.20 | 14:23

Workers ordered to disinfect Ohrid after thousands of guests from Skopje descended during the lockdown weekend

Ohrid city authorities said they will thoroughly scrub and disinfect the city after the Pentecost weekend during which thousands of people from Skopje and other locked down cities flocked to Macedonia’s main tourist resort. The weekend lockdown strategy failed spectacularly, as tens of thousands...
Macedonia 21.05.20 | 16:54

Officers and soldiers ordered into self-isolation after an outbreak in Ohrid

Dozens of officers and employees at the police resort in Ohrid are ordered into self-isolation after several policemen were found to be Covid-19 positive. The resort is used by the Interior Ministry and a unit of the riot police brigade was sent there. Seven of them were found positive to the coronavirus,...
Macedonia 08.05.20 | 15:50

Dr. Pecakov: Zaev with the help of Kiceec’s paramilitary rigged the local elections in Ohrid

The “Racket” case revealed scandalous information related to Ohrid, Dr. a from VMRO-DPMNE said on Friday, adding that the testimony of the first defendant Bojan Jovanovski reveals that Zoran Zaev rigged the elections in Ohrid and that there were election irregularities. Bojan Jovanovski says...
Macedonia 15.04.20 | 18:24

Family of a victim from Labunista shares video of the moment they were turned back at the Ohrid hospital

The family of a 59 year old man from Labunista near Struga who died of the coronavirus shared a video of the tense moment when he was denied admittance to the Ohrid general hospital. The family sought assistance a week ago, but were turned back as the hospital is not equipped to deal with coronavirus...
Macedonia 10.04.20 | 14:54

Ohrid Mayor calls on the Government to close his city for outsiders

The city of Ohrid called on the Government to post checkpoints and to ban people from other cities from entry. Ohrid border Struga and the rural Labunista region which, due to their emigrant links to Italy, saw a major rise in coronavirus cases. Ohrid is also an important Orthodox Christian religious...
Macedonia 07.04.20 | 22:14

Ohrid police stops citizens from going toward coronavirus hit Struga

Local outlets in Ohrid are reporting that police is stopping citizens from heading west, toward Struga. A check-point is set on the main exit from the city. Only those who work in Struga or have urgent business there are allowed to go. Struga had a flare-up of the coronavirus epidemic. Some of the emigrant...
Economy 04.04.20 | 21:39

PE Vodovod Ohrid with over 250 employees in times of economic crisis spends 5 million denars for temporary employments

The President of the VMRO-DPMNE branch in Ohrid posted on his Facebook profile a document which shows that PE “Vodovod” from Ohrid signed an agreement with the Private Employment Agency “AKSIOS-VARDAR” from Gostivar in the amount of 5,000,000.00 denars. The public enterprise “Vodovod”...
Macedonia 01.04.20 | 20:15

The mother from Ohrid was not infected with coronavirus

The coronavirus test of the mother from Ohrid, who died along with her baby after giving birth late last night at the Skopje Gynecology Clinic, came back negative, the Ministry of Health informed. The mother from Ohrid likely died from sepsis, Covid-19 test is being performed According to the clinic’s...
Macedonia 01.04.20 | 13:32

Doctors from Ohrid say instructions from Minister Filipce prevented them from admitting the Covid-19 patient who later died

Doctors from the Ohrid general hospital are defending their call not to admit a patient with the coronavirus, who later died at home. In a press release, they informed the public that the hospital is not equipped to handle such cases, and that instructions from Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce were...
Macedonia 01.04.20 | 11:28

Tragedy: Coronavirus infected mother died along with her baby

A 34 year old woman from Ohrid, believed to be positive on the coronavrus, died yesterday evening in the Gynecology Clinic in Skopje. Her baby also dies. The woman was sent to Skopje after suffering from fever and complications in her pregnancy. An Ohrid news site reports that she had a severe case of...
Macedonia 29.03.20 | 20:59

Struga doctor describes the ordeal of her patient who was denied treatment in Ohrid and died of the coronavirus

A doctor who treated 66 year old Nemljune Ibraimi gave a shocking testimony of how doctors at the Ohrid general hospital refused to admit the woman, despite having serious difficulties breathing. The patient was in my van and I had her receiving oxygen. I had to heat up the van because it as cold outside...
Macedonia 29.03.20 | 14:14

Ohrid hospital director removed after a coronavirus patient died untreated

The head of the Ohrid general hospital was dismissed after a patient that was refused hospitalization there has died from the coronavirus. The 66 year old woman contracted the virus during visit to the family of a doctor from Debar, a city that was subsequently placed under quarantine. Nemljune Ibraimi’s...
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