Новости за 22.12.2017

Paphos police has requested from police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou to be given two more bicycles to improve policing in areas that are hard to navigate by car, it was announced on Fri-day. The Paphos police force has already two bicycles, used on rotation by eight officers, and would like two more to increase daily patrols.

Cyprus’ cooperative bank will have reimbursed a total of €112m to customers by Christmas that were wrongly overcharged, its communications director Yiannos Stavrinides said on Friday. Speaking to Cybc’s lunchtime news programme Apo Mera se Mera, he said so far €70m had been reimbursed to 9,000 accounts and “as we speak, €42m is being credited […]

A traditional Boxing Day swim will get underway in Paphos next week which sees tens of fundraisers plunge into the sea to raise money for charity. For the tenth year, the sponsored swimmers will enter the water at Vardas Beach in Kissonerga at 11am and will have to stay in the water for 15 minutes. […]

  The United Nations began bringing African refugees to Italy from Libya on Friday, evacuating them from detention centres whose conditions have been condemned by humanitarian groups as inhumane. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have fled conflict or poverty at home and are now trapped in Libya, where they had hoped to pay people smugglers […]

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime-minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun, who has been under fire recently over the origins of his fortune, will be obliged to declare his assets in the case he is elected to the new ‘assembly’ following January’s elections, it was reported on Friday. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika, ‘speaker’ of the Turkish Cypriot ‘assembly’ Sibel […]

The last week of the year has lots of shows to entertain. Here are just a few out of the box performances that will make sure 2017 is a cultural year we will remember. Starting off on Boxing Day, the band Naughty Claudia will perform at Sarah’s Jazz Club in Nicosia at 9.30pm. The band, […]

A marble sculpture created by two Ukrainian artists that is 2.8m tall, gained a prime place in Ayia Napa on Friday. Approved by the municipal council, the artwork titled Fish was created by Yuri and Lyudmyla Mysko during the first phase of Ayia Napa’s fifth sculpture symposium. The theme of the 2.8m tall sculpture, created […]

THE oldest animal shelter in Cyprus may be forced to close as there are not enough funds to cover the huge running expenses to provide care for the unwanted animals of the Paphos district, the facility’s staff have said. Oana Bodnaras of Paphiakos and CCP Animal Welfare told the Cyprus Mail that help is urgently […]

Two Greek companies have submitted proposals to acquire CytaHellas, the loss-making subsidiary of state-owned telecom Cyta, put on sale to stop the blood-letting, although no decision has yet been made to proceed with either of them so far. Still, a successful completion of the deal is unlikely to reverse the downward trend of Cyta’s market […]

Cyprus and Egypt conducted a joint search and rescue exercise on Friday south of the island, the defence ministry announced. Titled CYPEGYP – 02/17, the exercise involved Cyprus’ aeronautical forces and the Egyptian Navy’s training ship Shalatin. The scenario involved a maritime accident in the open sea which saw the implementation of the NEARCHOS national […]

Limassol will get its first bitcoin embassy in early 2018, fintech company Hello Group announced on Friday. The announcement followed the launch of the first bitcoin ATM in Limassol in November. “The venue will serve as an open community centre where people can talk about the cryptocurrency, participate in free discussions and attend regular meet-ups […]

As the traditional British Christmas lunch goes international, its potatoes are likely to have come from Cyprus, the Daily Mail reported. According to the paper, potatoes from Cyprus are likely part of the Christmas roast, as well as Polish sprouts, Romanian turkey and cranberries from the USA. “As Britons tuck into their Christmas roasts there […]

A 49-year-old driver who was speeding and nearly five times over the legal alcohol limit was caught at 10am in the Famagusta area on Friday. Police officers stopped him driving at 108 km/h on a road where the speed limit is 65 km/h. Because he smelled strongly of alcohol they administered a breathalyser test which […]

Road tax for 2018 can be paid as of Monday January 8, the transport ministry announced on Friday. The tax is payable at any bank, citizens’ service centre, district post office, district office of the road transport department, or online at rtd.mcw.gov.cy. The latest date for the renewal without paying a fine is Sunday, March […]

Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians on Friday, a Gaza health official said, as protests intensified against Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem asIsrael‘s capital. A UN General Assembly resolution passed on Thursday, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s Dec 6 Jerusalem declaration, did little to calm Palestinian anger over his reversal of decades-old US policy […]

Palestinians launched more anti-US protests on Friday, and at least one demonstrator was killed in the Gaza Strip, a health official said, after the UN General Assembly rejected Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel‘s capital. Smoke billowed from burning tyres at a demonstration in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, two days before Christmas celebrations in […]

Britain‘s classic blue passport, for many a key symbol of national sovereignty, will be reintroduced after the country leaves the European Union, the government said on Friday. Bringing back the old passport, just as Britain is negotiating the terms on which it leaves the EU in March 2019, will please both those who voted to leave the […]

Manchester United great Ryan Giggs said he advised the club to sign forwards Kylian Mbappe and Gabriel Jesus years ago when they were worth just £5 million. The former Wales international, who made a record 963 appearances in a trophy-laden career at United, retired in 2014 to become assistant manager to Louis Van Gaal, who […]

The state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank said it has agreed with security service firm G4S to provide bank services to remote rural areas with the use of armoured vehicles early next year. “The vehicles will visit the most remote areas of the country and will also be present at events attracting large crowds,” such as sport […]

Separatists looked set on Friday to regain power in Catalonia after voters rejected Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s attempt to neuter its independence movement, instead re-igniting the country’s biggest political crisis in decades. Spanish markets recoiled at a surprise result that is also a setback for the European Union, which must now brace for more […]

Separatists looked set on Friday to regain power in Catalonia after voters rejected Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s attempt to neuter the independence movement to defuse Spain‘s biggest political crisis in decades. Spanish markets recoiled at a surprise result that is also a setback for the European Union, which must now brace for more secessionist noise as […]

The Mall of Cyprus, supported by Coca-Cola, is about to welcome -for the fourth consecutive time- the most beloved persona of the holiday season, as the real Santa Claus will be arriving from faraway Lapland to meet his young Cypriot friends and take some great holiday photos with them. Santa Claus will be at The […]

Cypriots drivers are bad, stubborn and dangerous, according to a survey carried out on behalf of the justice ministry in a bid to draft a new communications strategy on traffic safety. Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday the aim was to change the way messages about driv-ing are made to the public so they […]

Iran‘s justice ministry confirmed on Friday that authorities have opened a new case against British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been sentenced to five years in jail, and denied she might soon be released. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she […]

World Trade Center Cyprus, organisers of the second annual “All You Need for Christmas” exhibition, is celebrating the success of this year’s exhibition as local and regional businesses reflect on the positive response from the community. This year’s exhibition which took place on Sunday December 10th from 11:00 – 21:00 at Trakasol Cultural Center provided […]