Новости за 06.05.2016

ANY cuts in the Health Ministry’s budget in the last years are due to measures taken by both the current and previous governments, namely payroll cutbacks and savings, minister George Pamboridis said on Friday. Speaking at a press conference on the ministry’s budget, in a bid to defend the government following constant criticism by opposition […]

NUMBERS 13, 666 and 69 are now available as vehicle licence plates, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Friday. Last month, the ministry announced owners of unregistered vehicles could bid for specific licence plates. Although the letters would be set, numbers, if available could be selected. Numbers 13, 666 and 69 were not available because […]

THE municipality of Nicosia announced the opening of bids for the first phase of the redevelopment of the Makarios – Stassikratous – Evagorou avenues triangle on Friday. The date for submission of bids is June 23, and the project budget is estimated at €9m plus VAT. “It was decided to implement the project in phases,” […]

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades urged party leaders and others to refrain from engaging in scaremongering and populism as regards the visa waiver deal between the EU and Turkey. “Because I’m hearing a lot these days that the visa waiver would supposedly allow millions of Turks to come to Cyprus, I want to note that 79 million […]

THE state Audit Service called on the Transport Ministry to conduct an investigation over a call for tender last year for 84 pickup trucks, it emerged on Friday, after the specifications seemed to leave little room for many bidders. A letter by the Audit service’s technical chief Andreas Hasapopulos, to the ministry’s permanent secretary Alecos […]

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Mousa Dembele has been handed a six-match ban for violent conduct that went unseen by the referee but was caught on video, the Football Association said on Friday. Dembele, who had accepted the charge, will see his suspension extend into next season. Tottenham, second in the Premier League behind newly-crowned champions Leicester […]

CYPRUS state services are ready to deal with any fire hazard at any moment, Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos said on Friday as the high-risk summer season approaches. The Republic currently owns eight fire fighting aircraft and rents another two, he said. “We will also have help, if our own aircraft are not enough, from the […]

LARNACA airport’s police chief was attacked by a 35-year-old passenger at the security line, police said on Friday The assailant, from Nicosia, was set to depart for Athens on Thursday. However, while standing in line to get scanned he caused a disruption delaying the rest of the passengers. Upon realising people were being held up, […]

FOR the first time in 18 years, Costas Kyriakou, aka Utopos (the Utopian), will not be running in the May 22 parliamentary elections, as his candidacy was rejected by the chief elections officer , it was announced on Friday. Utopos become a household name in Cyprus when he first ran for the presidential elections in […]

THE head of the ear, nose and throat (ENT) department of the Nicosia General Hospital Yiannakis Kyamides was arrested on Friday for suspicion of taking bribes, with more arrests imminent. For the same case, police reportedly also arrested Vasken Shahbenderian, a doctor at the same ENT department. A third arrest warrant was issued against another […]

After screenings in Nicosia, the documentary The Cypriot Fiddler will be shown in Paphos on Wednesday, followed by an open discussion with the documentary’s producer Nicoletta Demetriou. Demetriou is a research fellow in Ethnomusicology and Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford and in 2005, when she was doing fieldwork for her PhD, she […]

THE Co-operative Central Bank, the state-owned lender that controls 18 local co-operative banks, expects to post a net profit of up to €30m in the first quarter of the year, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday, citing the bank’s chief executive officer. The lender, which received a €1.5bn capital injection from the government more […]

President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday,Turkey would not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a deal to curb migration, and declared: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. His fiery speech will be a blow to any hope in European capitals that it might be business as usual with Turkey […]

Spain has recorded its first case of a foetus developing the microcephaly birth defect after a pregnant woman became infected with the Zika virus, health authorities said late on Thursday. Spain has recorded 13 expectant mothers who have contracted the virus after travelling overseas, though no others are known to have developed defects. The mosquito-borne […]

By Stelios Orphanides Labour peace at Cyprus’s airports hangs in the balance as talks between ground handling companies and their staff to renew a collective agreement reached a deadlock, industry sources said. “Some eight years ago when we won the contract from Hermes Airports to do the ground handling we also inherited an antiquated collective […]

The two leaders are determined to tackle the current disagreements between the two sides without affecting their rights, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday, aiming at reaching a solution this year. Returning to the presidential palace after a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, Anastasiades it was conducted in a positive climate. The two […]

Saturday’s Greek Cup final between league champions Olympiakos Piraeus and AEK Athens has been postponed at the request of the police. The match was due to be held behind closed doors due to crowd violence that has blighted this season’s competition. However, a nationwide 48-hour strike by various trade unions that began on Friday meant […]

Building permits fell almost 20 per cent year-on-year in terms of construction area and 17 per cent in terms of volume in the first two months of 2016, suggesting a possible slow down in construction activity, the statistical service said. The total construction area and value of projects that acquired a building permit in January […]

By Stelios Orphanides Finance Μinister Harris Georgiades said Cyprus should remain on the course of economic reforms and fiscal prudence to help it regain its investment grade sovereign rating and reduce its borrowing costs, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. The drop in borrowing costs for the government would “free valuable resources,” Georgiades was […]

This Sunday all heavy metal fans should head to Exandas Music Stage in Nicosia where the American band Riot V will be playing. Riot V, known as Riot until 2012, was founded in New York in 1975 by guitarist Mark Reale. At a time when heavy metal and rock ballads were very much king – […]

A new £200m polar research ship is to be named after veteran BBC naturalist David Attenborough but the government promised on Friday that ‘Boaty McBoatface’, the name which topped a public poll, would not be ignored. The naming of the Royal Research Ship (RRS) attracted huge interest after the Natural Environment Research Council encouraged Britons […]

Challenger Amir Khan readily accepts that he is a huge underdog for his WBC middleweight title clash with Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in Las Vegas on Saturday but has promised to give his much bigger opponent “a boxing lesson”. Englishman Khan has moved up two weight divisions to take on the flame-haired Mexican, whose only […]

The British Bases (SBA) are making new efforts to return vehicles belonging to Turkish Cypriots who were relocated to the occupied areas in 1975, Forces TV reported on Friday. Hundreds of cars, motorbikes, buses, and tractors were abandoned inside Episkopi Garrison in Limassol and have been stored there ever since. The vintage vehicles make an […]

A fire at the archives of the town planning department had been blown out of proportion by the media, Interior Minister Socratis Hasicos said on Friday, stressing that no files were lost and none of those affected were linked to scandals. “You exaggerate and sometimes make a mountain out of a molehill,” the minister told […]

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