Export of companies-residents of Gomel-Raton free economic zone /FEZ/ in January-April 2006 amounted to USD 22,2 million having grown by 52.7 per cent as against same time last year, BelTA was informed in the marketing department of the FEZ administration. Over the four months CIS member-states imported USD 16,9 million worth of goods or 76.2 per cent of the total. Among them Russia was the main consumer. It bought USD 14,2 million worth of goods. Machines and equipment, plastic goods and...

This summer over 2,500 preschool children will have a rest in Gomel region sanatoriums. Sergei Bondarenko, head of Gomel region department of the national recreation and sanatorium treatment centre, told BelTA, this summer the number of preschool children, who live in Chernobyl-affected areas and will enjoy summer recreation, will be 20 per cent larger. There four new special departments at sanatoriums in Gomel, Mozyr, Zhlobin, and Svetlogorsk districts. Along with the rest the children will...

Today the first regional professionalism contest among police patrolmen will start in Gomel. Law enforcement agency head of the regional police department Yuri Selivanov told BelTA, the main goal of the contest is improving the skills of the patrolmen and increasing the level of co-operation between units involved in the protection of public order. The contest gathered 18 teams, which represent patrol units of the patrol and inspection service regiment of Gomel region police department and...

Gomel-based open joint-stock company Elektroapparatura has started producing household gas stoves. Company director Viktor Zhikhar told BelTA, today the company will produce a pilot batch of 50 stoves. The stoves will undergo certification tests for the next fortnight. After that the company will start serial production. According to the director, the main parts of the gas stove model were designed by the company engineers. The stove has four various capacity burners, an electric oven with...

Business suits will be compulsory for coach drivers, deputy director general of national automobile transportation enterprise Gomeloblavtotrans Alexander Knyazev informed BelTA. Up till now the regulation was effective to drivers on international routes only. However, the enterprise administration decided to expand the rule by including bus routes, which connect regional and district towns. By the end of the year drivers on 106 intertown routes will have to put on business suits. Such suits...

Gomel rescue workers will start using human instruments while trapping wild animals. The regional natural resources and environmental protection committee will help equip the emergency units with modern instruments. A representative of the regional emergency response agency told BelTA, they are planning to reequip units, which save wild birds and animals. Emergency units often have to respond to calls to save the wild life. Over the last two years they saved racoons, beavers, swans, cranes,...

Rescuers of Gomel oblast have been buying fire alarms for low income families as an act of charity. According to the information given to BelTA in the center of propaganda and education of the Gomel oblast emergencies department, employees of town and regional emergencies agencies purchase fire alarms for their own money to install them in households of large or monoparental families, lone elderly people or the disabled. The charity will last till June 15. Owing to it, several thousands of...

The republican unitary enterprise Gomeloblavtotrans extends its intercity service network in Ukraine. According to the information given to BelTA by company’s deputy director general Alexander Knyazev, in June two new services will be introduced to/from Chernigov and Zhitomir oblasts. Thus, in next few days Mozyr/Olevsk service will be running on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. By the end of June a new service Rchitsa/Chernigorv via Bradin will be introduced. According to...

For the five months of the current years Diamond Tools Plant (a branch of the Gomel Production Association Kristal) intensified supplies of diamond tools for metal working by 35 per cent, for stone working – two times and for glass working – three times, a BelTA correspondent was informed by deputy head of the sales department of the company Igor Panfilov. According to him, this year the plant has won several tenders for the supply of diamond tools for Production Association MTZ,...

Today Rumiantsev-Paskevich Palace hosted celebrations in honour of the best graduates of Gomel. Some 108 winners of republican Olympiads, their teachers and parents as well as the town administration gathered for this solemn event. In his speech Gomel mayor Alexander Belyev noted that the state will continue rendering assistance to talented and gifted young people. “We have educated a nice new generation who will continue glorifying the country,” he added. Honorary diplomas, medals,...