Iceland Monitor
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:54:00 +0000Bomb threat in Keflavík last night
Just before midnight a cargo airplaine landed in Keflavík Airport after a threat about a bomb being on board the airplane was received. This was confirmed by the Chief of Police in Reykjanes peninsula, Úlfar Lúðvíksson, to mbl.is
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000Two thousand people got vaccinated
Around two thousand people went to Laugardalshöllin yesterday to get the fourth booster shot for Covid-19 or an Influenza shot. All residents in the capital region 60 years or older got an invite to come.
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:07:00 +0000Do you know this man?
The police in the capital region is looking for a man they need to talk to in regard to a case they are working.
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000Millions worth of damages in Urrðaholt due to an eletrical failure
Residents in a few dozen apartments in Urriðaholt in Garðabær suffered millions worth of damages last Friday when a malfunction in an electric box run by HS Veitur caused the voltage to soar from 220V to almost 400V in some of the apartments th...
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000Iceland in 5th place on the SPI Index 2022
Iceland drops down one place and is now in the 5th place of 169 nations in the Social Progress Index (SPI) which is conducted by the independent US non-profit company Social Progress Imperative. Every year a lot of variables are measured to reach ...
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000Iceland prominent in the first trailer of Heart of Stone
The thriller and action movie Heart of Stone was partially filmed in Iceland and at one point the downtown area near Harpa Concert Hall was closed. The film premieres on Netflix next year.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:30:00 +0000Denies planning terror attacks
"I think the arrest was not aggressive. It was a big operation, but the man was not thrown on the ground or anything like that," says Ómar Örn Bjarnþórsson, the defense attorney for one of the the men in police custody who was apprehen...
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 05:00:00 +0000Reyðarfjörður is like a warzone
A lot of buildings and vehicles were badly damaged in the storm on Sunday. Damages are visible all over the town, broken windshields, roof damages all over, mostly in the industrial buildings.
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:05:00 +0000Over 200 calls to the Rescue teams
The weather has been very bad, with gale winds and very high sea in the North of Iceland and in the East. The last 24 hours the ICE-SAR Landsbjörg Rescue teams have had over 200 emergency calls which 350 people have been involved in taking care o...
Sat, 24 Sep 2022 11:34:00 +0000Icelandic journalist on the way to Donbas for the referendum
The journalist, Erna Ýr Öldudóttir, has landed in Turkey and is going to Ukraine to witness the referendum in Donbas this weekend, where the vote is about whether these Russian occupied areas will be a part of Russia.
Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:00:00 +0000Looking to Anders Breivik as a rolemodel
The men who were arrested by the Special Forces yesterday have a role model in extreme nationalists in Scandinavia, such as the notorious Anders Breivik, who killed 77 young people on the 22nd of July in 2011, which to this day remains the biggest...
Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:34:00 +0000Terrorist attack averted in Iceland
Icelanders have been in shock since yesterday when the police arrested four Icelandic men in their twenties under the suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on the public and state institutions. Two of the men have remained in police custody.
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000Discussed the bilateral agreement and the backlash in equal rights
Iceland's Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, met with Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Government in Capitol Hill in Washington. This is reported on the website of the Icelandic Government.
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:15:00 +0000Cancelled the flight and decided to stay and help fighting for human rights
Iranians are now fighting a historical fight for human rights in the wake of the murder of the Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the notorious “morality police” on September 13th, for not wearing her hijab correctly and showi...
Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:47:00 +0000Inviting Icelandic journalists to go to the occupied areas in Ukraine
“This is a fund that is sponsored by the Russian state. That is all I know about it, but I am in good contact with the fund manager, a woman I have known for years, but she is one of the ministers of the self-governing area of Vasilkiv,” says ...
Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:01:00 +0000The second wind turbine in Þykkvabær was taken down yesterday
The latter wind turbine in Þykkvabær is now down after the staff of Hringrás first cut the foundation with a welding equipment and then jacked up one side of the turbine until it toppled over.
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:11:00 +0000The real estate market is cooling
"This means that the real estate market is cooling down," says Una Jónsdóttir, the Head of Landsbankinn Economical Research, about the 0.4 decrease in the housing price index in the capital region. She says that the decrease will probabl...
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:49:00 +0000A commercial building in Grandi caught fire last night
A commercial building in Fiskislóð in Grandi in the western part of Reykjavík caught fire last night. The Fire Department was contacted at 3:22 AM and the building in question houses The Lava Show, but according to Jónas Árnason, warden of th...
Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:19:00 +0000"An honour to be a part of this historical moment on Iceland's behalf"
"This was an impressive and a historical moment to experience the funeral of Elizabeth II. She was a monarch who has done her duties concientiously, dutifully and diligently for over 70 years," says Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the President o...
Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:46:00 +0000Knitting warm socks for the soldiers in Ukraine
Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, encourages Icelanders to take up the knitting needles and knit warm socks from the warm Icelandic wool for people in Ukraine and document in the website Sendum hl...