Day: February 20, 2006

The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RUV, reports that Vilhjálmur Bjarnason, adjunct lecturer in business at the University of Iceland, claims that the purchasers of a controlling stake in Bunadarbanki in a controversial privatization in 2002 made false statements to the government.

Women received all the awards at last Friday’s annual Icelandic Journalist Award Ceremony, reports Morgunbladid.

Support for prime minister Halldór Ásgrímsson’s Progressive Party is at an all time low, measuring in at 7.1 per cent, reports Fréttabladid.