Новости за 01.12.2017

Paphos public bus drivers held a three-hour strike on Friday to protest the delay in receiving their salaries. The 11am to 2pm strike action was accompanied by warnings that they will go on an indefinite strike if they were not paid by Monday. The strike mainly affected pupils but also foreigners and locals using the […]

Cyprus’ official authority for certified translations, the Press and Information Office (Pio) cannot validate translations carried out in 25 languages out of the 31 it offers, according to a report by the audit service published on Friday. The department has staff that can speak six languages – Greek, English, French, German, Arabic and Russian – […]

Calls for the president to intervene over lengthy delays to the construction of a much-anticipated marina at Potima in Paphos are being made by the Kissonerga community council. George Stylianou, muktahr of Kissonerga, told the Cyprus Mail that the local authority is calling on the president to personally intervene to ensure that the construction of […]

Rozita Pavlidou, the primary suspect in the case concerning the alleged misappropriation of around €5 million in EU-funds for research programmes at the technical university (Tepak) and the Oceanography Centre of the University of Cyprus (UCy) claimed that the brains behind the plot is not her but the person who reported the case to the […]

Experts on Friday made safe a device filled with nails that was delivered to a pharmacy near an outdoor Christmas market in the German city of Potsdam near Berlin, local police and security officials said. Germany is on high alert for potential militant attacks nearly a year after a Tunisian Islamist hijacked a truck, killed […]

Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia’s ambassador, and prosecutors said he consulted with a senior official in Donald Trump’s presidential transition team before speaking to the envoy. In an appearance at a courtroom in downtown Washington, Flynn became the first member […]

Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, is prepared to testify that Trump directed him to make contact with Russians when he was a presidential candidate, ABC News reported on Friday. Reuters has not verified the ABC News report, which cited a Flynn confidant.

Hosts Russia will kick-off next year’s World Cup finals versus Saudi Arabia in Moscow and defending champions Germany will start against Mexico after Friday’s draw threw up some mouthwatering clashes. Five-time winners Brazil will face Switzerland in their first Group E match with Costa Rica and Serbia making up one of the tougher-looking of the […]

The contract for the reconstruction of Kallipoleos avenue in Nicosia was signed on Friday between the government and Kedris Construction Ltd, with work scheduled to start immediately after the Christmas season and expected to last 18 months. According to Transport Minister Marios Demetriades, the project was awarded for €3.25 million. Reconstruction work will be conducted […]

IT looks as though the music scene in Paphos will end 2017 with much more variety and volume than ever before. Next week will start the ball rolling with a Christmas Concert performed by pianist Ivelina Rouseva and soprano Tina Chester. Together the two musicians, who are no strangers to the Paphos stage, will perform […]

The Central Bank of Cyprus said it fined RCB Bank €800,000 citing the Russian-owned lender’s failure to comply with provisions of anti-money laundering legislation. “The decision is based on the procedures and principles of administrative law, therefore the Central Bank of Cyprus, inter-alia, provides the person concerned the opportunity to be heard before taking a […]

A British man wanted in the UK after he absconded while on trial in connection with stealing 100,000 pounds (€113,000) of charity donations for ill children has been arrested in Paphos and extradited to England after more than three years on the run, it was reported on Friday. According to Sheffield-based daily newspaper The Star, […]

Only around 3,400 of 40,000 eligible new voters have registered for next year’s presidential elections, making a new low in election apathy, an official said on Friday. In a bid to encourage young people to register to vote, the interior ministry and the press and information office launched a campaign on social media two weeks […]

Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a former officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over suspected links to last year’s failed coup, the Hurriyet daily said on Friday, in a further blow to troubled US-Turkey ties. The Istanbul prosecutor’s office is seeking the detention of Graham Fuller, former vice chairman of […]

A delegation from the audit service arrived at the tax department on Friday morning, requesting information on, among other things, whether politically-exposed people (PEPs) have filed their tax returns on time since 2008. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the team has already started drafting a record with the names of such individuals. Auditor-General Odysseas […]

Cyprus and the UK signed an agreement on Friday for the sale of coastal land at Zygi belonging to the former colonial ruler for €8.6 million. The 350,000-square metre area had been retained by Britain following the island’s independence in 1960 to host short-wave transmitters for the British East Mediterranean Relay Station. The land will […]

A Kurdish family from Syria has ended its second hunger strike of the year after 24 days after being given reassurance that the Cyprus government will do something about their stateless status. The Hasan family have been living in tents outside the Presidential Palace and the Ministry of Interior in Nicosia since March, protesting peacefully […]

Syria’s top government negotiator said on Friday his team was quitting UN-led peace talks in Geneva and might not return next week, blaming the opposition’s rejection of any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a transition. Opposition groups met in Riyadh last month to hammer out a unified position ahead of the Geneva talks after […]

Bank of Cyprus said on Friday it will outsource the management of up to €800 million in non-performing loans to Australia’s Pepper Europe (UK) Ltd as part of a ‘strategically important’ agreement after it got the go-ahead from its board of directors and its workers’ union, Etyk. The lender, which pioneered in the fight against […]

Bitcoin rebounded on Friday to hit the day’s highs above $10,500, recovering from an earlier dip below $9,500, after the US derivatives regulator said it would allow CME Group and CBOE Global Markets to list bitcoin futures. The announcement by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) paves the way for CME and CBOE to become […]

England captain Joe Root’s impatience to resume hostilities with Australia at Adelaide Oval after a week of off-field distractions was palpable on the eve of the first day-night Ashes Test on Friday. While his Australian counterpart Steve Smith basked in the confidence that comes from scoring an unbeaten 141 to lead your side to a […]

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday he hoped a gold trader cooperating with US prosecutors in the trial of a Turkish banker will “turn back from his mistake”, saying the Iran sanctions-related case targeted Turkey and its economy. Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab told jurors in New York on Thursday that President Tayyip […]

The media should continue to investigate state attorney Eleni Loizidou’s leaked emails while taking care not to unnecessarily expose the personal data of any of the people referenced in them, personal data commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Friday. Speaking on state radio, the commissioner went further than the cautious statement she had issued on […]

The leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) said on Friday he ruled out no option in helping to form a new government but stressed that a re-run of the outgoing “grand coalition” with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives was not a done deal. Germany, Europe’s political and economic powerhouse, has been without a government since a […]

Cyprus hopes Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Greece later this month would yield positive results regarding the island’s reunification process, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Friday. The spokesman briefed reporters after a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and US State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Jonathan Cohen, who was also scheduled to meet Turkish […]