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A residential quarter worth 32 million will be built in Jugla

Real estate developer Kaamos has started construction of the Riiti residential quarter at 11 Juglas Street in Riga. The project will feature five modern, nearly zero-energy apartment buildings ranging from four to nine storeys high, located near Lake Jugla. An investment of 32 million euros will be made in the implementation of the project, and its construction will be carried out by the Kaamos Group construction company Kaamos Construction. The residential quarter is planned to be completed by […]

Latvian beef cattle breeders are worried about competition with their South American counterparts

The Beef Cattle Breeders’ Association expresses concern that in the discussions held so far on the Mercosur trade agreement, a clear answer has still not been provided to a crucial question – how effective control and monitoring mechanisms will be ensured in practice with regard to beef imports from third countries. Without such clarity, ratification of the agreement creates significant risks both for the sector and for consumers. The Member of the European Parliament involved in drafting the agreement […]

Matryoshkas may not be sold only at the Central Market; at the Town Hall Square – they may.

Matryoshkas, or nested wooden dolls that were targeted late last year by Riga’s Deputy Mayor Edvards Ratnieks, have disappeared from Riga Central Market but are freely available in souvenir shops right under the nose of Riga City Council. Inc. confirmed this on site after a market vendor drew attention to this injustice. She complained that the municipal leadership “has nothing to do and only knows how to deal with […]

Stiga RM employee simultaneously also an independent consultant in the Ministry of Agriculture’s forestry consulting program

At the end of last year, we wrote about how senior employees of LVM, who were directly involved in decision-making on the organization of procurements and the drafting of tender documents at the state-owned company “Latvijas valsts meži”, went to work for one of the industry’s entrepreneurs, including one about whom they had made decisions while at the state company. However, this is not the only situation that shows how some entrepreneurs have become intertwined with ministries […]

SIF NGO co-financing program: the green course and immigrant inclusion with state money

Once, not so long ago, when former New Unity prime minister Krišjānis Kariņš was flying around the world on private flights, the Attīstībai/Par! minister Juris Pūce had only recently resigned, the Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia was reaching ever new records, but there was more money than ever before, the government nevertheless decided to find 425,000 euros from the budget’s contingency funds so that Pūce’s wife Zaiga […]

From this year, members of election commissions will earn 30% more

Contrary to promises not to increase salaries in the public sector, the Cabinet of Ministers (MK) at the end of last year increased the remuneration of members of municipal election commissions and polling station commissions by about 30%, according to information on the MK legal acts portal. The new regulations came into force on January 1 of this year. Thus, if previously the hourly rate of the commission chairperson was 10 to 15 euros, the commission secretary earned from […]

New technology will help prevent power grid overload

To streamline the management of production and consumption capacity in the power grid, the Latvian energy technology startup Engycell, in cooperation with AS Sadales tīkls, has developed an innovation – a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) algorithm that enables dynamic management of BESS charging and discharging decisions depending on the real-time situation of the distribution transformer in the power grid. The aim of the pilot project is to find new solutions for how to use digital technologies to efficiently utilize all […]

CC: In the Construction Cartel case, the Supreme Court unjustifiably restricts cooperation between law enforcement authorities

The judgment of the Supreme Court Senate’s Department of Administrative Cases in the construction cartel case has raised significant issues regarding cooperation between law‑enforcement institutions, the transfer of lawfully obtained evidence for the detection of cartel agreements, and the effective application of competition law, the Competition Council states. Respecting the Senate’s decision, the Competition Council (CC) emphasizes that in its judgment the Senate did not assess the existence of the prohibited cartel agreement on the merits and did not analyze that without […]

Egg producer consolidates brands

The Latvian poultry and egg product manufacturing group AS APF Holdings, which includes the Alūksne poultry farm, is changing its legal name to AS Agrova Baltics and will henceforth be part of the Agrova group brand, which will also include the UK poultry company Sunrise Eggs, acquired in November 2025. The Agrova brand will henceforth unite several companies whose largest shareholder is AS Agrova […]

More NGOs will learn to acquire funding; the first 52 organizations have graduated from the NGO incubator created by the SIF

According to an announcement published on December 30 on the SIF website, 52 organizations have graduated from the “NGO incubator” created by the Society Integration Foundation (SIF), which was established in mid-2025. In half a year, the NGO incubator has become a development platform for more than 100 organizations throughout Latvia. In the first NGO incubator cycle, 52 organizations participated, while in the second cycle, which has just started – 58 organizations have been admitted through a competitive selection process. “Looking back at their experience in the incubator, participants particularly highly valued the opportunity to receive individual mentor consultations on […]”