Day: June 13, 2005

The privatization of state banks Landsbanki and Búnaðarbanki continues to come under criticism.

The Nobel laureates and Columbia professors Robert Mundell and Joseph Stiglitz will speak at an economics conference in Iceland later this week.

The Canadian Ethnic Journalists’ and Writers’ Club has selected Steinþór Guðbjartsson, the editor and president of Lögberg-Heimskringla in Winnipeg in Canada, to receive its highest award for ethnic writing in Canada.

Real Madrid footballer David Beckham and wife Victoria were nowhere to be seen at Friday’s fashion show held by fashion company Mosaic in Reykjavík.