Tag: Tetovo
Macedonia 14.08.23 | 20:03

State prosecutors deny allegations that they deliberately sabotaged their investigation in the Tetovo hospital disaster

The office of state prosecutors (OJO) issued a statement responding to the investigative TV report about the devastating 2021 fire in the Tetovo Covid hospital that killed 14 patients and their relatives. The IRL media outlet published a report that heaped scorn on the Healthcare Ministry and the politically...

Economy 12.08.23 | 21:29

A year later, still no sign of the e-car plant in Tetovo

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski called out the Government for the obviously false promises that a plant for assembly of electric vehicles will be built near Tetovo. The opening of the plant was announced by DUI and SDSM party officials, and it was supposed to be built by a company linked to powerful...

Macedonia 12.08.23 | 20:27

Tetovo police will investigate who waved the Greater Albania flag during Albin Kurti’s visit

Tetovo police announced that they are investigating the way in which the visit of Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti was organized, especially the use of a flag representing Greater Albania. Tetovo Mayor Bilal Kasami distanced himself from the use of the flag, insisting that he didn’t arrange it....

Macedonia 12.08.23 | 12:55

Albin Kurti welcomed like royalty in Tetovo, greeted with maps of Greater Albania

Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti visited Tetovo and Skopje’ Cair district, in a semi-official visit meant to show his support for the Albanian opposition parties in Macedonia, while the DUI – SDSM Government remains close to his rival, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Kurti was welcomed...

Economy 11.08.23 | 21:46

German founder kicked out of the company that was supposed to assemble electric cars in Tetovo

German professor Gunther Schuh, who set up the Next e.GO electric car company, told A1on that he is no longer associated with the company. According to Schuh, he was removed from the company by the new investor. The news outlet turned to the professor to ask about the plans of the company to open a factory...

Macedonia 06.08.23 | 11:23

Kurti comes to Macedonia to support the Albanian opposition against DUI

Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti will visit Tetovo and Cair next week, as he expresses his open support for the opposition Albanian parties in Macedonia. Kurti will meet Tetovo Mayor Bilal Kasami and Cair Mayor Visar Ganiu – both key figures in the growing political movement which is in opposition...

Macedonia 12.07.23 | 19:23

Tetovo citizens report an ugly smell that appears every evening

Citizens of Tetovo report an unbearable stench in the evenings. The smell resembles burning plastic and trash, and it is coming back every evening since late June, but the source has not been found yet. Mayor Bilal Kasami announced that he will conduct an investigation. “Wherever the safety of...

Macedonia 16.04.23 | 16:36

Doctor who filmed Tiktok with patients in the Tetovo hospital gynecology ward may lose his license

Healthcare Minister Fatmir Mexhiti acknowledged that an anesthesiologist in the Tetovo hospital was the person who made a Tiktok video, filming female patients in the ward. The doctor was detained for the crude video in which he is seen laughing. Mexhiti said that he is urging the hospital to fire the...

Macedonia 16.04.23 | 11:40

Tetovo Mayor Kasami again refers to Tetovo as the Albanian capital of Macedonia

Tetovo Mayor Bilal Kasami again referred to his city as the “main Albanian center in Macedonia”. Kasami did this during a meeting with Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti, despite the fact that he was loudly criticized by Macedonians after he used the term during an earlier event.

Macedonia 15.04.23 | 10:14

Man arrested after posting Tiktok showing gynecology patients in the Tetovo hospital

A person, apparently an anesthesiologist in he Tetovo hospital, filmed a Tiktok video in the gynecological ward, where he is showing off the patients and laughs while doing so. The video continues into an operating hall. The person was arrested yesterday evening. Hospital director Pelumb Vela said that...

Economy 07.04.23 | 14:17

Despite delays, Kovacevski says that the construction of an e-vehicle plant in Tetovo will go ahead

Even though the E-Go company failed to begin construction of the electric cars plant in Tetovo that was announced, Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski insisted that the investment will go ahead. He told the press that the company hasn’t drawn any of the millions in state subsidies that are pledged...

Macedonia 03.04.23 | 13:07

Tetovo’s Ballisti group comes out in support for the UCK guerrilla movement

The Albanian nationalist football group Ballisti from Tetovo issued statements of support for the Albanian UCK guerrilla group during yesterday’s gathering in Pristina. Albanians from Kosovo came together in support of the organization which is facing some scrutiny from the war crimes tribunal...

Macedonia 01.04.23 | 15:32

Man died in the Tetovo hospital after receiving no treatment

A family of Tetovo told the media that their 60 years old family member died in the Tetovo hospital without receiving any treatment. The family from the village of Pirok brought the man to the hospital seeking help after he fell into a coma, but after half an hour no doctor came to see him. Hospital...

Macedonia 02.03.23 | 20:23

Tetovo hospital disaster hearing reveals that the wiring was an improvised job

Builders of the improvised Covid hospital in Tetovo, that burnt to the ground in 2021 with the loss of 15 lives, did not prepare a plan for the electric wiring. This was revealed at the trial in Tetovo today, during which the court heard from an electric engineer. The Brako company, owned by Zaev’s...

Macedonia 10.11.22 | 09:18

Mickoski in Tetovo: The problem is the same for everyone, so we must ensure changes that will bring the future

Tonight in victorious Tetovo. More and more people are moving out, leaving because of the difficult life, and dissatisfied with the government. The problem is the same for everyone, so we must ensure changes that will bring the future. The common future is what we believe in and what the people deserve!,...

Macedonia 23.09.22 | 17:39

Monument to Revolution in Tetovo vandalized

The monument to the Revolution in the center of Tetovo has been vandalized who knows how many times now, citizens write on social media. According to an eyewitness, members of an ethnic community (children) did what you see with large stones….for which they later received a “fee” from...

Macedonia 21.08.22 | 10:37

Besa: We defeated the regime of tyranny, thanks to the citizens of Tetovo

The chief of staff of the Besa Movement, Sadat Sulejmani, declared victory in the municipal council elections in Tetovo. Once again we kept our word, all together. We are 1,000 votes ahead of DUI. We thank the citizens of Tetovo that together we defeated the regime of tyranny. We won at every polling...

Macedonia 20.08.22 | 09:04

Voters in Mavrovo-Rostuse and Centar Zupa vote for mayor; Tetovo elects municipal councilors

The municipalities of Mavrovo-Rostuse and Centar Zupa on Saturday hold repeated mayoral elections after voter turnout was low at the 2021 elections, while Tetovo holds extraordinary elections for councilors after no agreement for majority was reached at the municipal council. A total of 101,174 voters,...

Macedonia 18.08.22 | 20:59

The head of SDSM’s list for Tetovo elections pretended to be Albanian in order to get a job

In order to get a job at the Inter-Municipal Center for Social Affairs Tetovo, the current head of SDSM’s councilor list for the local elections in Tetovo, Gligorije Stojanovski, stated in the application that he was Albanian, because the advertisement stated that it was intended for the employment...

Macedonia 12.08.22 | 13:26

Bulgaria didn’t want it either: The electric vehicle to be produced in Tetovo was declared the worst ever in Germany

The government yesterday boasted that electric vehicles will be manufactured in Tetovo. It sounds good, especially with the trend that has swept Europe for electric vehicles, especially after EU’s announcement that in ten years the production of gasoline and diesel vehicles will be banned. The...

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