Nearly a quarter of residents in Latvia at risk of poverty
439 thousand persons or 23.4 % of the population of Latvia were at risk of poverty in 2020 – 1.8 percentage points more…
Category: Social
Latvian police come across 168 kg of suspicious white powder substance in banana crates
A day before Christmas Latvian State Police received a call from a security service of an undisclosed retail network. Security reported having found…
Pope Francis: World losing compassion, looks silently at war, tragedies
Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church has evaluated that the world shows less compassion to immense human tragedies in wars and different…
Lithuanians searched Google in 2021 to ask about sports, Eurovision and Covid documents
The keywords used by Lithuanians the most in the Google search engine in 2021 show interest in European football, pop song contest and…
Latest Covid-19 cases in Baltics. 335 in Latvia, 639 in Lithuania, 535 in Estonia
A total of 335 new Covid-19 infection cases were found in Latvia in the last 24 hours. 179 of the patients were either…
Estonia sees sharp rise in omicron variant infections, not many hospitalisations
Estonia’s caseload of persons confirmed to have been infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 reached 1,500 over the Christmas weekend…
Latvian State Roads warns snowy roads make driving conditions difficult
This morning, 27 December, driving conditions on national and regional roads in Latvia were made difficult due to snow. Roads are being cleared…
Weather forecast for the last week of 2021 in Latvia
Colder masses of air and snow flowed to Latvia last week, bringing white Christmas to almost the entire country. Weather will remain cold…
BNN summary of the week: Electricity price. Holidays in Latvia. Changes in the police
The Christmas week in Latvia has started relatively calmly. Of course, the large volume of snow in Riga has brought certain concerns, as…
