Новости за 13.01.2017

THERE are no taboos in negotiations over security, but a proposed solution without rotating presidency will not even make it to a referendum, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci told reporters at a press conference in Geneva on Friday. Speaking for about an hour, Akinci said proposals for territorial adjustments from the two sides – Greek […]

FOR the first time, promotions in the police force are fully compliant with Supreme Court rulings, Justice minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday. He was responding to accusations by main opposition party Akel that recent promotions were the result of party politicking. “Instead of focusing on the need to cleanse the force of corruption, the […]

MEMBERS of parliament have called for more state support to the Higher Hotel Institute (HHIC) and criticised the government for trying to move the school from its current location in Nicosia to serve private interests. Zacharias Koulias, the head of the House watchdog committee that visited the premises of the HHIC on Thursday, said that should the government […]

Future Worlds Center and CARDET are organising a conference, entitled Time for Change: Responsible Supply Chains in the Cyprus Context on Thursday at Classic Hotel in Nicosia. The conference will serve as a forum for discussion about the existing information and proposing new policies for controlling and reducing the environmental and social impact of international […]

The Council of Europe has a crucial role to play in protecting cultural heritage and the Convention on Offences Related to Cultural Property, which is currently being drafted, will be an important legal tool towards this end, according to foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides who chairs the CoE Committee of Ministers. Speaking at a conference in […]

Mexico must be ready to respond immediately with its own tax measures if the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump imposes a border tax, the country’s economy minister said on Friday. Trump, who takes office on Jan 20, on Wednesday promised a “major border tax” on companies that shift jobs outside the United States, and […]

Chicago’s police routinely used excessive force, tolerated racially discriminatory conduct and often maintained a “code of silence” among officers to thwart investigations into misconduct, according to a blistering report released by the federal government on Friday. The 161-page document from the US Department of Justice details a 13-month civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police […]

International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, according to a document seen by Reuters. A joint inquiry for the United Nations and global watchdog the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) […]

Corporate social responsibility can go a long way to addressing the many challenges facing the world today. To that end, we will need to replace the linear industrial model that sees businesses and consumers take, make, use and waste – often to the detriment of natural resources and human capital ¬– with a new ‘syndustrial’ […]

DESPITE President Nicos Anastasiades’ repeated denials of discord with the Greek government, a United Nations source told the Cyprus Mail that Greek foreign minister Nikos Kotzias gave off the impression that he is the more unpredictable of the protagonists involved at Thursday’s conference on Cyprus in Geneva. Ahead of the afternoon session of the international […]

THE stepfather and mother of a 14-year-old girl were remanded in custody for eight days on Friday in connection with her sexual harassment. The stepfather, 48, was arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing the girl during the past four years. Her 36-year-old mother was detained after police were told that she knew about the abuse […]

  A draft bill on the immediate disclosure of public sector information is currently at the House ethics committee for discussion before being submitted to the plenum for a vote. The bill, that had been approved by the cabinet in October, provides for immediate access to public sector documents. To-date, government documents are made public […]

Lord Snowdon, the photographer former husband of Queen Elizabeth’s late younger sister Princess Margaret has died aged 86, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday. “The queen has been informed,” a palace spokeswoman said. A family spokesman said Snowdon, who was born Antony Armstrong-Jones, had died peacefully at home. Snowdon had a long and successful career as […]

AN Akel delegation found a number of problems at Kofinou refugee reception centre on Friday, among them a shortage of staff and problems with the drainage system. The delegation consisted of three persons – Marina Koukou, Akel’s Head of the Office on Migration Policy and MPs Skevi Koukouma and Evanthia Savva. “It is not a […]

Donald Trump responded with derision on Friday to news of an investigation into the FBI decision to make public an inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails days before the Nov 8 presidential election, a decision that Clinton said was a factor in her defeat. The Justice Department said on Thursday it would investigate the FBI actions. […]

THREE new licenses have been issued by the government, doubling the number of petrol stations that provide liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to gas-fuelled vehicles, it emerged on Friday. According to a report in daily Alithia, one of the new licenses is for a station in Strovolos and the other two in Aglandjia. This, according to […]

Everton manager Ronald Koeman says new signing Morgan Schneiderlin will go straight into Everton’s squad for Sunday’s Premier League home game against Manchester City, and he would like to sign one or two more players in January. France international Schneiderlin, 27, played under Koeman at Southampton before moving to Manchester United in 2015, and was […]

The Central Bank of Cyprus said that the amount of non-performing loans dropped in October by €37.6m to €24.1bn, the lowest since the introduction of its current methodology in December 2014. The October drop in bad loans in the Cypriot banking system, considered the number one risk for the country’s economic and financial stability, resulted […]

Relatives of Rwanda‘s late king, gathered in Kigali for his funeral on Sunday, have rejected a move by his chief courtier to hand his crown to a father-of-two living in a council house in England. Clan elder courtier Boniface Benzinge posted a message on Facebook this week saying the title would pass to the monarch’s nephew, […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has played down the link between his own future at Arsenal and that of Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil. Wenger, who is out of contract at the end of the season, said Ozil was “misinterpreted” in an interview in Germany this week, in which the playmaker said he would wait to see […]

Outstanding issues in other chapters of the reunification negotiations could not be closed before there was a conclusion on security and guarantees, UN Special Advisor Espen Barth Eide said on Friday. Speaking at a news conference a day after talks in Geneva broke up, Eide said certain matters were close to conclusion but they remained […]

By Stelios Orphanides The Central Bank of Cyprus said that a weaker sterling caused by the UK’s exit from the European Union is likely to have a limited effect on the Cypriot banking system and, via tourism, the economy. The Cypriot banks’ exposure to the UK, which seven months ago, voted in a referendum in […]

French prosecutors are investigating Renault over suspected cheating on vehicle exhaust emissions, a source at the Paris prosecutor’s office told Reuters on Friday, sending shares in the automaker lower. The probe follows the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal, which emerged in September 2015. VW this week agreed to pay $4.3 billion in a settlement with US […]

Morfi gallery in Limassol will present the solo exhibition entitled Kaleidoscope by Harris Papadima on Wednesday at 7.30pm. In her second solo exhibition, Papadima presents 29 paintings. These works were created by a technique called dripping, in which paint is left to drip on the canvas. The technique was used to bring to life each […]

Refugees and migrants are dying in Europe’s cold snap and governments must do more to help them rather than pushing them back from borders and subjecting them to violence, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. “Children are particularly prone to respiratory illnesses at a time like this. It’s about saving lives, not about […]