Новости за 02.11.2017

Over the past 12 years taxpayers paid €1.7 million in rent for storage space on state land in Nicosia leased to a private company for €6,660 per year, the House watchdog committee heard on Thursday. The case concerns land in the Strovolos industrial estate leased to a company by the energy ministry for €6,660 per […]

The University of Nicosia (UNIC) will become the first university in the world to record all of its academic degrees in the blockchain – a list of records linked and secured using cryptography that cannot be modified. The announcement was made on Thursday by UNIC’s CEO Antonis Polemitis. Speaking at the Decentralised 2017 conference, organised […]

Two local bands are getting ready to rock our music scene once again, making sure we have yet another reason to remember November. First up will be the jazz trio TriCoolOre in Nicosia on Saturday, followed by The Low Spark in Larnaca next Friday. TriCoolOre, who are Angelos Doukas on keyboards, Vasilis Vasiliou on drums […]

President Nicos Anastasiades stepped in to try to avert the escalating strike measures announced for next week by the unions at the state power company EAC, it was reported on Thursday, while union leaders said they are to inform their members in all districts of the situation. According to daily newspaper Politis, Anastasiades presided over […]

A 58-year-old homeless man was found dead on a bench in the Limassol coastal area early on Thursday, police said. The man – Grigore Vasile from Romania – was found lying unconscious on a bench at around 1am by passers-by. He was transferred to the Limassol general hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. […]

Over the past 21 months, police have issued more than 21,000 tickets for illegal parking across the country. So far this year – up until September 30 – the number of parking violations reached 9,812. During 2016, police issued 11,924 parking tickets. Cypriot motorists were also incorrigible when it came to respecting parking spaces reserved […]

Police on Thursday nabbed two persons suspected of robbing an elderly couple in the village of Polemi, Paphos district. The incident occurred around 1.30pm. According to the police, the two suspects -aged 50 and 56- took €200 in cash from the couple, a 90-year-old man and his 88-year-old wife. The two suspects fled the scene […]

The reason doctors are leaving Nicosia General Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) is not the salary, incentives, workload, political views or trade-union issues, but their inability to effectively serve the severely ill in a work environment that has seen years of misadministration, three intensive care doctors who have resigned in the last 18 months said […]

By Stelios Orphanides The head of anti-money laundering unit Mokas said on Thursday that press reports about Cyprus’s alleged reluctance to investigate complaints about the laundering of stolen tax funds from Russia, which have been made by Hermitage Capital Founder Bill Browder were irritating. Browder’s allegations “that the Republic of Cyprus did not show interest […]

Cristiano Ronaldo says the current Real Madrid team is less experienced than the all-conquering side of last season after the Spanish champions suffered a resounding 3-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday. Real’s first Champions League group game loss in five years came just three days after a shock 2-1 La Liga reverse at minnows […]

Cyprus-based airline Cobalt added three new routes to its winter schedule, and flights to London, Frankfurt and Moscow are now available. In an announcement, the airline said there are now six flights a week from Larnaca to Gatwick and back, two connections between Larnaca and Frankfurt and twice-weekly flights between Paphos and Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. […]

Paphos police are looking for a thief who stole jewellery worth €5,650 from a house in Chlorakas. A Cypriot resident reported the theft in the evening, saying the objects had been taken in the afternoon. Police officers at the scene found the aluminium door of the residence had been forced open with a sharp object. […]

Despite the rejection of his appeal by the Supreme Court on Thursday, all ongoing legal proceedings relating to the extradition of Egyptian hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa have been halted following the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Justice Ministry announced. Prior to the ministry’s announcement, the Supreme Court announced the rejection […]

The Supreme court on Thursday rejected an appeal filed by Egyptian hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa against a court order for his extradition to Egypt, so that he can stand trial for the hijacking of an Egyptian Airlines plane on March 29, 2016. The full bench of the Surpeme Court unanimously adopted the ruling of the […]

Scientists using an imaging method based on cosmic rays have detected a large and enigmatic internal structure in the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, the massive Great Pyramid of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo. Researchers announced the discovery on Thursday but said they did not know the purpose, […]

A rescue team freed the grounded freighter Glory Amsterdam from a sandbar near the North Sea island of Langeoog and ruled out an oil leak, German authorities said on Thursday. Two large towing ships pulled the freighter to deep water and 16,000 tons of ballast water were pumped out of it, said Simone Starke, spokeswoman […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to appoint a new defence minister on Thursday after her loyal ally Michael Fallon quit in a sexual harassment scandal that has prompted calls for an end to the “locker room” culture in parliament. Just hours after Fallon resigned over past behaviour he said had fallen “below the […]

British street artist Banksy has offered a royal ‘apology’ engraved on Israel’s barrier in the occupied West Bank for Britain’s endorsement a century ago of the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The work was unveiled on the eve of Thursday’s centenary of the Balfour Declaration at a mock tea party for Palestinian children […]

Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that five years after Cyprus experienced its worst banking and fiscal crisis since 1974, “the glass is more than half-full”. At the same time, there is need to continue the effort to recover lost ground, he said at an event in Nicosia on Thursday according to the transcript of his […]

The United States is Iran‘s “number one enemy” and Tehran will never succumb to Washington’s pressure over a multinational nuclear deal, Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Thursday. US President Donald Trump broke ranks with other major powers last month by refusing to formally certify Iran‘s compliance with the nuclear deal. Under […]

Wearing black clothing and skeletal face paint, dozens of women marched in downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to commemorate the growing number of women murdered and pressure the government to put an end to what they say is the rampant impunity fueling it. About 200 protesters held photos of murdered sisters, daughters and friends while […]

Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides should investigate the matter of any involvement by President Nicos Anastasiades in the planned development of a luxury accommodation complex in Pera Pedi so that all suspicions can be addressed, the president said on Thursday. In a statement, the presidency said it sent a letter on Thursday to the auditor-general in […]

Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides should investigate the matter of any involvement by President Nicos Anastasiades in the planned development of a luxury accommodation complex in Pera Pedi so that all suspicions can be addressed, the president said on Thursday. In a statement, the presidency said it sent a letter on Thursday to the auditor-general in […]

Two pianists and one soprano will take to the Rialto stage in Limasssol on Saturday to perform Russian masterpieces. Renowned Cypriot soprano Zoe Nicolaidou will be joined by pianists Elina Linchevskaya and Zbynek Maruska to perform a programme featuring Russian romantic music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and Valery Gavrilin. These emotionally charged melodies […]

Consumer prices rose in October 0.1 per cent compared to the respective month of 2016 as cheaper manufactured products offset the impact of less affordable energy products, agricultural produce and services, the statistical service said. Fuel prices rose last month an annual 3.8 per cent while electricity prices rose 1.8 per cent, Cystat said on […]