Tag: Tetovo
Macedonia 28.06.21 | 12:44

A woman from Tetovo can’t get monolingual documents because “Macedonians are below 20% in Tetovo” she was told

The Registry Office in Tetovo persistently refused to issue a woman from Tetovo documents only in Macedonian language. She received bilingual documents in Tetovo, in Macedonian and Albanian. In the regional department, her complaint was rejected, after which she was forced to go to Skopje, where she...

Macedonia Sport 18.05.21 | 13:51

Albanian nationalist fans loudly celebrate Shkendija’s title in Tetovo

The Shkendija football club fans staged a major celebration in Tetovo yesterday after their team won the league title. Shkendija is supported by the nationalist Albanian Ballisti group, which styles itself after the World War Two Nazi aligned Albanian movement. The victory was hijacked by the DUI...

Macedonia 10.05.21 | 21:50

VMRO representatives meet with villagers from Tetovo and Prilep

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament began their announced series of meetings with citizens from smaller towns and villages across the country. Aleksandar Veljanovski was in the villages of Jegunovce, Preljubista and Podbregje, near Tetovo, where the citizens cited problems with unregulated dumping sites...

Macedonia 25.04.21 | 08:19

Police has been putting pressure on football fans from Tetovo not to come to the protest

The Vojvodi fan group from Tetovo informed that its members are under police pressure not to attend the protest planned for Sunday in Skopje. Protestes are demanding the release of the political prisoners kept by the Zaev regime. All forms of pressure, warnings and interrogations by the police carried...

Macedonia 22.04.21 | 12:27

Corona field hospital in Tetovo has not been put in service due to lack of water in the city

An improvised field hospital set up in Tetovo to help treat coronavirus patients still has not been put in service because of the lack of water in the city. Tetovo is undergoing water cuts for parts of the day after a reservoir built on Mount Shara was damaged. This has prevented the necessary tests...

Macedonia 13.04.21 | 23:26

Tetovo authorities will impose water cuts again

Local authorities in Tetovo announced that the major city will again need to go through water restrictions. The plan is to introduce two time slots when supply will be cut so that savings will be made. The city struggles with providing enough potable water, even in springtime, and recently it saw a reduction...

Macedonia 28.03.21 | 12:22

A few days after the commemoration, memorial of the Tetovo Kale battle was destroyed

The flowers and memorials laid at the Tetovo Kale fortress, to commemorate its capture during the 2001 civil war, were destroyed and strewn across the site just a few days after the event. The battle was marked by Macedonian police and army veterans. The Kale, which overlooks the city, was taken by guerrillas...

Macedonia 23.03.21 | 09:43

Inspectors investigating the Tetovo Medical Faculty after plagiarism scandal

Inspectors are investigating the State University in Tetovo after reports that seven of its professors had plagiarized their work. Considered as one of the lowest quality public universities in Macedonia, the Tetovo university was recently hit by the scandal centered on its medical faculty. Students...

Macedonia 11.03.21 | 13:42

Hospitals reach breaking point – another incident reported in Tetovo

Tetovo police detained two persons, a man and a woman, who were threatening an employee of the Tetovo general hospital. The incident broke out over the treatment she was giving to a relative of the two attackers. Assaults on medical staff are common in Macedonia, especially in Tetovo. The situation has...

Macedonia 09.03.21 | 13:46

Man from Tetovo tried to run another man over after an argument

A man from Tetovo tried to run over another man over a traffic dispute. The two men in their 40-ies were arguing after one of them left his broken down car on the main boulevards in the badly congested city yesterday evening. This obstructed the movement of another motorist, who, after a verbal dispute,...

Macedonia 25.02.21 | 13:10

Parts of Tetovo left without water for over three days

Parts of Tetovo, especially the higher elevation areas, have been without water for three days now. The overconstructed city suffers from chronic lack of water in summer, but now is the period of the year when melting snow should ensure ample water. The areas of Koltuk and Dva Bresta are being supplied...

Macedonia 19.02.21 | 18:02

Alternative party calls on Healthcare Minister Filipce to investigate the incident in the Tetovo hospital

The Alternative party called on Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce to investigate the incident that occurred in the Tetovo hospital two weeks ago. The incident reportedly erupted between rival officials from the DUI and BESA parties, who are nominally coalition partners, but also bitter rivals. After...

Macedonia 16.02.21 | 18:26

Elderly woman died in a fire near Tetovo

An elderly woman from the village of Zilce near Tetovo died in a fire this morning. Macedonia is hit by a cold wave and it’s possible this contributed to the tragic accident. The fire was reported by the son of the victim. Tetovo firefighters put it out but were too late to save the 80 year old...

Macedonia 14.02.21 | 18:49

City of Tetovo goes viral with its comedic inability to respond to the snow

The Tetovo municipal worker filmed casually throwing fistfulls of salt on a completely snowed in street went viral across Macedonia, and today, set to classical music, it was carried by the Swiss Blick daily newspaper. Tetovo is notoriously congested even during the best of times, and this weekend it...

Macedonia 08.02.21 | 23:05

Tetovo has three times more municipal employees than Gostivar, and only 2,000 residents more

The Mayor of Gostivar, Arber Taravari, spoke on TV Telma’s “Top tema” show, among other things, about the number of employees in the municipalities. He said that Tetovo has only two thousand residents more than Gostivar, but the municipal administration has 580 employees, compared to...

Macedonia 05.02.21 | 17:21

DUI and BESA officials got into a fight in the Tetovo hospital

Rival administrators in the Tetovo hospital, appointed by the DUI and BESA parties, started a fight on Wednesday over the use of a car owned by the hospital. BESA had its official Artan Etemi appointed as financial manager of the hospital, which is dominated by DUI appointees. The position was created...

Macedonia 31.01.21 | 22:26

Forgery for money was operating in Tetovo

Alsat-M TV is reporting that a group of money forgers was uncovered in the area of Tetovo. According to initial reports, the fake bills were seized in a casino in Kumnaovo, and the investigation into their origin led to Tetovo. More details are expected tomorrow.

Macedonia 14.01.21 | 12:18

Child killed in a traffic accident in Tetovo

A six year old child was killed in a traffic accident in Tetovo yesterday afternoon. A 30 year old driver in a Volkswagen Golf hit the child on the major Video Smilevski – Bato boulevard. The child was rushed to the Tetovo hospital, but doctors could only pronounce death.

Macedonia 11.01.21 | 16:29

The water in Tetovo is not safe to drink due to strong rains

Citizens of Tetovo are being warned not to drink the water supplied by the municipal water company. The reason is that the pouring rains have affected the springs on Shara mountain and have pulled impurities in the reservoirs. Tetovo has a long standing problem with potable water, but that is usually...

Macedonia 11.01.21 | 10:22

Police raids strip-tease bar near Tetovo

The police raided a night club near Tetovo which served as a front for prostitution and strip-tease. The club was also in violation of the coronavirus restrictions, and was open after the mandatory 18h closing time. During the raid, 18 women were detained – 15 of them were foreigners, from Russia,...

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