Icelandic telecommunications company Síminn and Greenland Connect signed an agreement on running a marine cable between Iceland and Canada this week. It was established in March but traffic through it is currently limited.
A hawk that was covered in oil and therefore incapable of flying was rescued by the staff of the Akureyri division of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History (NÍ) at Sléttuhlíd in Skagafjördur, north Iceland, on Monday.
Island wurde gebeten, eine Hauptrolle in der Arbeitsgruppe der Internationalen Walfangkommission IWC zu spielen, die vor dem nächsten IWC-Jahrestreffen zwischen den gegensätzlichen Parteien vermitteln soll. Island hat dies akzeptiert.
Zwei der drei Aluminiumgesellschaften in Island handeln mit der Isländischen Krone auf ausländischen Märkten, um am Unterschied zwischen dem offiziellen Wechselkurs der Zentralbank von Island und dem Wechselkurs im Ausland zu profitieren.
The website, iceslave.is, opened this week, which features a so-called Icesave debt clock, estimating the status of Iceland’s Icesave obligations. The clock bases its amount on the exchange rate of the Icelandic króna and the interest on the loans granted to Iceland to honor these obligations.
Reykjavík District Court rejected yesterday the a petition from Hannes Smárason, former CEO of investment company FL Group, that a search of two of his homes and LOGOS law firm be deemed illegal. Smárason is suspected of extensive fraud.
Iceland was asked to play a key part in an International Whaling Commission (IWC) task force yesterday to seek reconciliation between opposing factions before the IWC’s next annual meeting. The request was accepted.
The stability pact between Iceland’s government and representatives of the employment market is still being discussed, although it was hoped that it could be signed yesterday. Eiríkur Jónsson, chairman of the Icelandic Teachers’ Union, said there is still a long way to go.
