Gomel ice cream factory has finished installing a modern production line for manufacturing multilayer ice cream, company representatives told BelTA. The equipment is of Dutch origin and can produce up to 18 kinds of multilayer multicoloured ice cream with portions varying from 40 grams to 100 grams. The line can turn out 3,000-9,000 portions an hour and costs EUR700,000. So far the company has mastered the production of 11 kinds of new products. The first batch was shipped to study...

Today Gomel regional council of people’s deputies approved a regional programme Pure Water for 2006-2010. The programme will centre efforts on developing pure water supply systems and water disposal system, sewage treatment, and improving the management in the water supply and water disposal services field. The programme will be financed by the national and local budgets as well as proprietary money of companies. Some Br100 billion will be spent on the programme implementation, including...

Three new schools are supposed to open in Gomel region by September 1. Representatives of Gomel region education board told BelTA, before the new academic year starts, the education authority plans to commission a secondary school in the village of Domanovichi (Kalinkovichi district) as well as start-up complexes of Krupetskaya kindergarten-school (Dobrush district) and Bolshevik secondary school (Gomel district). The source noted, the new schools will alleviate the burden of other schools...

More than 2,5 thousand young residents of Gomel oblast are expected to take part in tourist rallies, second secretary of the oblast committee of Belarusian republican youth union Vitaliy Derevianko told BelTA. A tourist camp has opened today in the urochische Rogachevka in the Oktyabrskiy region. More than 100 students for the region are taking part in. Tomorrow, June 16, they will be joined by about 120 working young people. During four days they will compete in various sports events, a...

In January-May 2006 the retail trade in Gomel oblast amounted to Br882 billion, a 17.3 per cent increase over the same period last year, BelTA has been told in the trade and services department of the oblast executive committee. The department took note of another important fact: over the recent years the structure of trade turnover has been steadily altering, with the share of nonfood products getting bigger. In particular, over the five months this year the share of nonfood sales accounted...

Today Gomel opened a two-day seminar for representatives of institutions of local governing. Partaking in the seminar are heads of regional, town and rural executive committees. Chairman of the Gomel oblast council of deputies Valeriy Selitskiy noted that the implementation of targets of the socio-economic development for 2006-2010 will greatly depend on performance of institutions of local governing. According to him, it is necessary to improve the situation with personnel in rural...

Gomel will utilize a total of Br3.6 billion for implementation of ecological projects this year. Today during a regular session of the town council Gomel deputies considered issues on improving the ecological situation in the town as well as priority areas of environmental protection for 2006-2010. According to the information given to BelTA by deputy chairman of the Gomel town executive committee Nikolai Usov, in 2005 Gomel saw a major improvement in its ecological situation. The projects...

National unitary enterprise Gomelavia Airport is getting accreditation for performing flights in line with the China-Europe programme. The enterprise’s director general Sergei Tabatadze told BelTA, the enterprise had forwarded the necessary package of documents to the Chinese aviation authority. According to the source, to get a permission to transport cargo using its own aircraft the enterprise will have to boost export operations. The source specified, foreign customers agreed to sign...

Gomel will host a two-day seminar for top executives of the local government’s basic and primary levels. The press service of Gomel region administration told BelTA, heads of district, town, and village executive committees of the region will take part in the seminar. According to the source, today participants of the seminar will partake in a roundtable sitting “Improving performance of primary level local government bodies for resolution of people’s everyday problems” as well as...

Milk production in Gomel oblast in January-May 2006 totaled 233,800 tons which is 23,000 tons or 11 per cent more than on the same time last year, BelTA was informed in the committee for agriculture and foodstuffs of the Gomel oblast executive committee. All the regions of the oblast reported the increase in milk yield. The greatest figures were provided by the Dobrush region – 27 per cent, Svetlogorsk region – 21 per cent, Vetka region – 18 per cent, Gomel and Petrikov regions –16...