TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 100 farmers demand to be paid for grapes they delivered to the wine maker Shildi.
Two days ago, the farmers rallied outside the plant demanding their payment immediately. They told journalists that many of them should be paid thousands
TBILISI, DFWatch–Rescue workers have recovered two tourists from Israel who were lost for two days in a mountainous part of Georgia.
According to the Interior Ministry, the tourists were discovered in Mestia, Svaneti. They left from the village Janbeshi toward the village
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four a fourth day, the port in Poti on the Black Sea has been closed for ships due to a storm.
According to local media, the unloading of ships has been in progress for the last few days, but fifteen ships which should have arrived have been turned
TBILISI, DFWatch–15.1 percent more visitors came to Georgia in September 2013 compared to same period last year.
According to Interior Ministry, 507 082 persons visited the country in September, while 4 075 600 visitors came to Georgia in the first nine months of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Saakashvili has pardoned about 18 000 people on probation or already finished serving their sentence.
The president signed a decree which has been sent to the appropriate bodies in order to be enforced.
Andro Barnovi, head of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Lawmakers in Georgia have retracted a bill to make it possible for authorities to bar Georgians from leaving the country without specifying the reason.
MPs Irine Imerlishvili and Zurab Abashidze said they were revoking the bill in order to improve it,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s estimated real GDP growth rate amounted to 1.1 percent in August 2013. For the first eight months of 2013, the same figure was 1.6 percent, according to Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
GeoStat’s monthly rapid estimates
TBILISI, DFWatch–53 election precincts will be open at locations abroad for Georgians there who want to vote in the presidential election on October 27.
According to the Central Election Commission, the highest number of precincts will be in Greece
TBILISI, DFWatch–The organization Droa protested outside Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s business center Monday evening, installing barbed wires at the entrance.
Police prohibited them from blocking the road with wires, so they placed them on the side walk.
TBILISI, DFWatch–67 prisoners were released on Saturday on recommendation of the commission for early release, according to the Prison Ministry. 14 of the released prisoners are women.
The ministry says the commission has reviewed about 300 cases and