Tag: Tetovo
Macedonia 14.10.21 | 19:45

Kasami: My priority for Tetovo will be urbanism

Presenting the election offer, we debated with the guests Muharem Muharemi, Adnan Beadini, Fehri Hetemi, Hamdi Saiti, Vigan Rustemi and Drilon Vejseli, with whom we concluded that I, as the future mayor of Tetovo, should have urban planning as our top priority, said Besa’s candidate for mayor of...

Macedonia 06.10.21 | 15:52

“Zaev compromised the investigation into the Tetovo hospital disaster”

Experienced former judge Vladimir Tufegcic sternly criticized the move by the Zaev regime to seize on the preliminary report by state prosecutors about the Tetovo Covid hospital disaster that killed 14 patients and family members. Zaev used the report that ignores failures in the construction of the...

Macedonia 05.10.21 | 20:26

Mickoski: We can’t blame some cable or a charger for the Tetovo hospital fire when the Minister and the Deputy Minister are directly responsible

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski rejected the finding of the forensics team that blamed the deadly Tetovo hospital fire on a faulty power extension cord, and carefully avoided laying blame on the structural and organizational defects in the hospital. The fire on September 8th killed 14 patients...

Macedonia 05.10.21 | 18:18

Nikoloski: The forensics report is preposterous

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski dismissed the forensics report into the deadly Tetovo hospital fire as preposterous. Nikoloski made the statement shortly after Zoran Zaev used the report to protect his favorite, Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, from his share of responsibility for the...

Macedonia 05.10.21 | 17:54

Grubi supports Zaev’s decision that no Government official will assume responsibility for the deadly Tetovo hospital fire

Zaev’s first Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi followed quickly after Zaev’s press conference today and voiced his position that the Deputy Healthcare Minister Ilir Hasani will not be removed for the Tetovo hospital disaster that killed 14 patients and family members, who were burnt alive...

Macedonia 04.10.21 | 13:41

Fireworks and musicians: Zaev parties through Tetovo less than a month after the deadly hospital fire

Zoran Zaev partied through Tetovo during his election campaign event yesterday, even as the city struggles in the aftermath of the deadly hospital fire less than a month ago, in which 14 patients and family members were burnt alive. The investigation into the fire in the hospital, which was built under...

Macedonia 02.10.21 | 21:05

Mickoski promises the citizens of Tetovo that Minister Filipce and other culprits will be held responsible for the deadly hospital fire

During the large pre-election VMRO-DPMNE rally in Tetovo, party leader Hristijan Mickoski promised that he will ensure criminal accountability for the devastating fire in the Covid hospital in this city that killed 14 people. The Zaev regime is trying hard to shift blame for the disaster and to buy time...

Macedonia 01.10.21 | 18:03

Zaev makes a callous comment about the Tetovo hospital fire

Zoran Zaev made a callous comment when asked about the investigation into the deadly fire at the Tetovo hospital three weeks ago. Life goes on, politicians are campaigning and every day activities continue, Zaev said, echoing a similar earlier statement that “tragedies happen”. His Government...

Macedonia 01.10.21 | 17:08

Tetovo covered in smoke from a burning dump site

The city of Tetovo was covered in dark smoke this afternoon, after a major fire in an unregulated dump site east of the city. Tires and other plastic waste is among the garbage that caught fire. Firefighters worked for an hour and half to put out the fire.

Macedonia 28.09.21 | 10:14

Tetovo modular hospital fire raised the alarm, inspections show that there is no fire fighting system in other clinics as well

After the modular hospital in Tetovo burned down on September 8, no details of the investigation could be heard or seen, so the fire raised the alarm of the authorities of other public health institutions. At the beginning of the corona crisis last March, the renovation of surgical clinics began. Although...

Macedonia 24.09.21 | 15:41

In face of obstructions from the Government, VMRO will submit a new proposal for a parliamentary committee that will review the disaster in Tetovo

VMRO-DPMNE will initiate the creation of a parliamentary committee to review the catastrophic fire in Tetovo that killed 14 patients and family members on September 8th, party leader Hristijan Mickoski said. The initial proposal was rejected by the Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi citing a technicality...

Macedonia 24.09.21 | 14:42

SDSM enlists the World Bank in its attempts to focus the blame for the Tetovo fire on the DUI party

Deutsche Welle today carried a statement from unnamed World Bank representatives in Macedonia, claiming that the management of the Covid hospital in Tetovo was under the mandate of the local municipal authorities. This is the second such report in the SDSM aligned news outlet alleging that SDSM’s...

Macedonia 23.09.21 | 11:43

VMRO demands a Parliament committee to investigate the deadly fire in Tetovo

The SDSM group in Parliament is trying to revive its mundane proposal to have shops closed on Sunday as the opposition demands an urgent debate on the catastrophic fire in the Tetovo Covid ward that killed 15 people. SDSM refused to have the debate opened at a Parliament Committee a few days ago, and...

Macedonia 23.09.21 | 11:26

“Zaev and Filipce claimed credit when they were building the modular Covid hospitals, but now try to blame DUI for the fire”

What we know so far about the deadly fire in the Tetovo Covid hospital shows there were serious failures in its construction and management, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party said in a statement. The fire, late on September 8th, while Macedonia was celebrating its 30th independence day anniversary, killed...

Macedonia 22.09.21 | 10:55

SDSM and DUI are using media leaks to accuse each other over the deadly Tetovo hospital fire

Starting yesterday, the SDSM and DUI parties are openly accusing each other over the deadly hospital fire in Tetovo that killed 15 patients and visiting family members. SDSM initiated the exchange when, using a friendly media outlet, accused the local municipal authorities in Tetovo of errors during...

Macedonia 21.09.21 | 13:57

Documents published by DW shift blame for the deadly Tetovo fire on the local municipal authorities

The Macedonian edition of Deutsche Welle published documents from the contracts signed to build and oversee the work of the 19 improvised Covid hospitals. ACcording to the documents, prepared in October 2020, the responsibility for overseeing the construction falls on the local municipal authorities...

Macedonia 21.09.21 | 10:51

Parliament Committee asked to review the crony Covid hospitals contract

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament proposed that the Committee on labour and welfare reviews the project for construction of 19 improvised Covid hospitals. The project was led by the Healthcare and Transportation ministries, but according to VMRO representative Antonio Milososki, the role of the Labour...

Macedonia 20.09.21 | 17:38

Aziri: According to a protector of crime like Zaev, the Tetovo fire victims are a banal thing

Fourteen citizens of Tetovo were burned alive, and Zoran Zaev says this is a banal thing! Why does he not accept the resignations? This confirms that his and Venko Filipce’s positions are more important than any other kind of motive!, Elmi Aziri, MP of the opposition Alliance for Albanians reacted...

Macedonia 20.09.21 | 13:54

“Do you want me to set myself on fire?” – Zaev makes a series of bizzare comments about the Tetovo hospital disaster

Zoran Zaev had a number of bizarre exchanges with the press today, when journalists pushed him on his own responsibility for the catastrophic hospital fire in Tetovo that killed 15 people. What do you want me to do? Cover myself with ashes? Pour gasoline on myself and set myself on fire? You must notice...

Macedonia 18.09.21 | 21:21

VMRO-DPMNE alleges that Minister Filipce was warned that the modular hospitals are flammable, but ignored the warning

Experts warned Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce that using flammable insulation in the modular Covid hospitals is very dangerous, VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki said during a press conference today. According to Kovacki, Filipce ignored direct warnings about the safety of the 19 improvised hospitals...

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