Новости за 02.01.2018

Ayia Napa municipality on Tuesday said it had reaped over €3.5m from its beaches in 2017, Mayor Yiannis Karousos said. This marks a 12 per cent increase since 2016 when income from beach beds, umbrellas and water sports amounted to €3.1m, he told the Cyprus News Agency. “Year after year, it proves that the decision […]

Bank employees’ union Etyk will hold a demonstration on February 1, because the government has failed to keep its promises, it announced on Tuesday. Etyk said it would hold an extraordinary session on January 31 to discuss “ongoing developments with particular focus on the well-known problem of provident funds,” which were affected by the deposit […]

Personal Data Commissioner Irene Loizidou-Nicolaidou in an interim decision issued on Tuesday called on the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) to temporarily cease being the sole seller of football away tickets and to destroy any personal data it may have collected by doing so. Her interim decision, circulated to the head of the CFA, the attorney-general […]

Results from the Cyprus football championship on Tuesday: Alki Oroklinis 0-3 Omonia Ethnicos Achnas 0-0 Ermis Doxa 0-0 Anorthosis

The trilateral summit slated to take place on January 8 between Cyprus, Greece and Israel was postponed on Tuesday to a date set to be later announced. The reason stems from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attendance in parliament (Knesset) which is set to vote on a crucial bill which will see convenience stores closed […]

President Nicos Anastasiades pledged on Tuesday that if re-elected he would continue with sound fiscal policies at home and building strategic alliances abroad. Presenting his five-year governance programme for 2018-2023, the incumbent said a second term in office would see his administration pushing through unfinished business, such as legislation reforming local administration, creating under-ministries for […]

Well-known personalities in Cyprus envision a country brimming with success in 20 years time with a solution to the Cyprus problem, while others fear an island with stifled media, no freedom of expression and frightening levels of crime. Daily Politis on Tuesday featured a series of articles by prominent members of public life such as […]

A €17,000 vehicle was stolen from outside a car rental shop in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a report filed to police. Between 1:30am and 7:20am, the car rental store in Paphos was broken into and a car key was stolen, police said in a statement. According to the shop owner, the […]

A 31-year-old man has been charged by police in London for the murder of Juliana Tudos, a 22-year-old adopted by a Cypriot, whose body was found in Finsbury Park. Metropolitan police named him as Kasim Lewis of Friern Barnet. He was arrested on New Year’s Day in east London and is set to appear in […]

Police in London have arrested a 31-year-old man, in connection with the murder of Juliana Tudos, a 22-year-old adopted by a Cypriot, whose body was found in Finsbury Park. The suspect was arrested on New Year’s Day in east London, according to Scotland Yard. Tudos, a Moldovan citizen born in Russia and adopted by her […]

Police are investigating the firing of shots on New Year’s Eve in Kato Polemidia in Limassol that almost hit a woman and damaged two cars. A 21-year-old woman reported that her mobile phone, which she was holding, was destroyed after it was hit by a shot fired in the air at around 15 minutes past […]

South Korea on Tuesday offered talks with North Korea amid a standoff over its weapons programmes, a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was open to negotiations but that his country would push ahead with “mass producing” nuclear warheads. The offer for high-level talks next Tuesday had been discussed with the United States, the South’s unification […]

By Stelios Orphanides The average monthly earnings of employees fell an annual 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 to €1,747 and to a seasonally adjusted €1,878, the statistical service said. The overall drop in average earnings affected male workers who saw their monthly earnings fall in July to September 0.6 per cent […]

German police have asked prosecutors to investigate a far-right lawmaker for possible incitement to hatred after she criticised a police force for tweeting in Arabic “to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hoards of men”. Police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) posted a New Year’s Eve greeting in Arabic as well as German, English […]

A record-shattering Arctic freeze kept its grip on much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday but temperatures everywhere except the north-east were expected to warm within 24 hours. Many school districts shut their classrooms due to the cold snap, which claimed four lives over the long New Year’s weekend. The National Weather […]

Egypt has hanged four men convicted by a military court of killing three military students in a bombing in 2015, security sources said on Tuesday. It was the second reported multiple execution of convicted Islamist militants in a week. A week ago Egypt hanged 15 men accused of deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula, believed to be the […]

Iran‘s Supreme Leader on Tuesday accused enemies of the Islamic Republic of stirring unrest across the country as the death toll from anti-government demonstrations that began last week rose to 21. Nine Iranians were killed in Isfahan province during protests on Monday night, including two members of the security forces, state television said. Six protesters were […]

A 57-year-old man was caught driving in Nicosia seven times over the alcohol limit police said on Tuesday. According to the police, the initial breathalyser test given to the 57-year-old, who was stopped on Monday evening in an area near Pera Horio in the Nicosia district, found an alcohol level of 158 microgrammes in his system. […]

By Stelios Orphanides Confidence is returning to the Cyprus banking system as the gap separating deposits from loans reached €2.9bn in November, its narrowest value since March 2013, the month in which the banking crisis culminated in a bail-in, official data shows. In November, total deposits fell by €96.4m to €49.2bn compared to the month […]

Former world number one Andy Murray’s lingering hip issues forced him to withdraw from the Brisbane International on Tuesday with the Briton admitting he was unsure whether he could recover in time for the Australian Open later this month. Murray has not played a competitive match since a Wimbledon quarter-final loss last July due to […]

The body found early on Saturday floating in the sea at the old Limassol harbour has been identified as that of a 50-year-old woman from Iran, police said on Tuesday. The woman, Anoush Ahmadi, was identified by a friend of hers, police said. The body of Ahmadi was reportedly spotted at around 6.50am on Saturday […]

By Preston Wilder Humans pride ourselves on being able to speak, the thing that separates us from the animals (sorry parrots), but we don’t give ourselves enough credit for being able to sing. “The noblest art is that of making others happy,” goes the final caption in The Greatest Showman – a quote by Phineas […]

The Audit Office on Tuesday revealed that the former president that owes the state €48,000 is George Vassiliou and not Demetris Christofias. Following much speculation after the release last week of the Audit Office’s 2016 report on the foreign ministry that said a former president received €48,087 outside his term of office in advance for […]

Christmas is over. Personally, I’m rather looking forward to January: we are due a little downtime a spot of relaxation after the recent festivities. And what better place to catch some much-needed zen than the warmth and quiet of an art gallery? So take yourself off to one of these three exhibitions this week, enjoy […]

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