The grants for women’s employment were awarded on 19 May last year in Harpa and 30 projects received grants totalling ISK 35,000,000.

The Directorate of Fisheries reminds that vessels that engage in net fishing, other than lumpfish fishing, must release all live lumpfish from the nets when they are towed.

The annual seed harvest of red fescue and lyme grass has been concluded by Land and Forest Iceland. While the red fescue harvest met expectations, the lyme grass yields were limited. Ongoing experiments with fertiliser and seed density in the red fescue fields in Gunnarsholt, initiated last year, aim to ensure biennial harvesting, which is currently not a consistent outcome.

Psychologist Líney Úlfarsdóttir specializes in mental health for the elderly at HSN. She says awareness is needed about the need for social isolation of the elderly, which is growing in the western world and is a serious public health issue on the pair with smoking and alcohol abuse.

Information and counselling services are available for individuals with dementia and their relatives.

The annual International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Traffic Accidents will be held on Sunday 17 November. The focus of the day will be on the risk of falling asleep or getting behind the wheel due to driver fatigue. The investigations of the Investigative Commission for Transport Accidents have shown that sleep and fatigue are among the leading causes of fatal traffic accidents.

Yesterday, a fourth individual was diagnosed with monkeypox in Iceland.

On 24-26 August, the first part of the basic course for the Director of Public Prosecutions took place.

On February 3rd, the first case of measles was diagnosed in our country since 2019. Several groups of people were potentially exposed in the two days prior. Those who were unvaccinated and may have been in close contact with the infected person were offered vaccinations on Monday, February 5th.

On the occasion of the Icelandic Sign Language Day, the Centre for Communication publishes a lecture by Hólmfríður Þóroddsdóttir on the influence of preparation on the quality of sign language interpretation.