Новости за 01.03.2018

Workers at the Cyprus Cooperative Bank (formerly the Cooperative Central Bank) on Thursday gave their union the green light to take all necessary action, including strikes, as a reaction to the bank’s recent sacking of a number of employees. In ballots taken across the districts, 99.08 per cent of CCB employees authorised bank workers’ union […]

A 66-year-old man died on Wednesday after the car he was driving crashed into an electricity pole on the Psematismenos-Zygi road, Larnaca district. The accident happened around 6pm. Charalambos Georgiou, from Limassol, apparently lost control of his vehicle, smashing into an electricity pole. The fire service was summoned to extract Georgiou from the mangled car. […]

Peace talks aimed at reunifying the island cannot start under the current circumstances, new foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Thursday. During the course of his first interview since being appointed to the post of top diplomat, Christodoulides said Turkey’s actions in the eastern Mediterranean – using force to stop Cyprus from drilling for gas […]

The stage can be a lonely place, so pianists Galina Dimova, Nina Ioannidou, Ivelina Ruseva and Natalia Lezedova will keep each other company on Sunday for a piano recital in Paphos with works by Mozart, Saint-Saens, Liszt, Debussy, Chopin, Shostakovich, Babadjanyan and Piazzolla. The four pianists, who will help us understand (or just remind us) […]

Police on Thursday arrested two men, aged 54 and 27, in connection with the death of a Bulgarian woman last week. The two, father and son, are the owners of premises in Paphos where a number of dogs were being kept. They have denied any involvement, stating they know nothing of the incident. The 27-year-old […]

A mistake made by police officers in a search warrant has thrown into doubt the trial of a couple suspected of stealing over €300,000 in cash and valuables from bank safety deposit boxes in Larnaca. Unemployed sign maker Marios Loizou, 37, and his 33-year-old wife Sotira Georgiou are accused of money laundering in connection with […]

The new Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou pledged on Thursday to continue major reform of the health sector and oversee the introduction of hospital autonomy and the implementation of the National Health Scheme (Gesy). After the swearing in ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Thursday, Ioannou received the portfolio of the health ministry from outgoing minister, […]

Environmentalists vowed to stop the construction of residences at the sea caves in Peyia, despite reassurances by the Paphos town planning department that everything was done by the book. Following two protests on Wednesday – one in Nicosia the other in Paphos – over the construction of six villas in the Peyia sea caves area, […]

Sixty-six convicts are to be released through a presidential pardon, on the occasion of Nicos Anastasiades’ re-confirmation as president this week. Of the 66 individuals, 38 are Cypriots and the rest foreign nationals. In addition, the jail sentences of 342 inmates are to be reduced by a quarter. People convicted of the abuse of minors […]

New Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris pledged on Thursday to continue the education reform started by his predecessor Costas Kadis Speaking at the hand-over ceremony, Hambiaouris, who served under Kadis as a civil servant at the ministry, said only with everyone’s co-operation can the island achieve quality upgrade of the education system. “I think I know […]

German security officials allowed hackers “controlled” access to government networks in order to track possible culprits and their methods, a top interior ministry official said Thursday, as outraged lawmakers complained about being kept in the dark. Deputy Interior Minister Ole Schroeder told the RND newspaper group security officials were able to “isolate and bring under […]

Efforts are underway in the north to move the focus of tourism in the breakaway regime from gambling to its Ottoman past, it was reported on Thursday. According to Turkish Cypriot media, efforts are underway to change the image of the breakaway regime, which is known as the ‘gambling island’ due its large number of […]

Barcelona players have paid tribute to a wounded victim of last month’s Florida high school shooting by sending him a signed shirt while the Spanish football club has invited him to meet the team and publicised a crowdfunding campaign to aid his recovery. Anthony Borges, who spent time at Barca’s youth academy in Fort Lauderdale […]

New website, Invest Career (www.invest.career), will help people find jobs in Cyprus through its pool of listed professionals and companies

The Hope For Children CRC Policy Centre was awarded the National Energy Globe Award 2017 at an event on Thursday evening. Joseph Varughese, chief executive officer of the organisation and inaugurator of the project received the prize for creating a sustainable living environment for children. The aim of the project is to promote the institution […]

A Russian plan for a five-hour pause in fighting in Syria’s eastern Ghouta needs to be expanded to allow aid deliveries to enter and civilians and medical cases to leave, United Nations officials said on Thursday. Hundreds of people have died in 11 days of bombing of eastern Ghouta, a swathe of towns and farms outside Damascus that […]

The new council of ministers was sworn in at the presidential palace on Thursday morning, along with other officials appointed by President Nicos Anastasiades after his re-election last month.

A memorandum of cooperation was signed between Invest Cyprus and the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Russia’s science tech business hub

Nicosia District Court is expected to decide by April 16 at the latest whether it will accept Bill Browder’s request to file a supplementary affidavit that aims to prove the Cypriot government is cooperating with that of Russia, his lawyer said. Christos Pourgourides, Browder’s lawyer, told the court on Wednesday that ‘the Minister of Justice […]

The European Union reached a tentative agreement on Thursday to tighten employment rules for workers who move to richer member states in order to earn more money but also risk undercutting wages in their adopted country. French President Emmanuel Macron has spearheaded the initiative to reform the system known as “posted workers” to quell discontent among his voters, […]

Cyprus’s unemployment rate fell to 9.8 per cent in January, from 10.3 per cent in December, hitting a single digit for the first time in six years, the European Commission’s statistical office said. The number of unemployed in January was 42,000, down from 44,000 the previous month, Eurostat said in a statement on its website […]

Paris St Germain forward Neymar faces a race against time to be fit for this year’s World Cup finals after the Brazil team doctor was quoted on Thursday saying that he would be out for up to three months with a foot injury. The 26-year-old, who became the world’s most expensive player last August when […]

The first successful craftsmen and artisans to be allocated available units at the historic Ibrahim’s Khan in Paphos, will be proposed at the local council meeting on Thursday night. Municipal officer Doxa Economidou-Barda, speaking to the Cyprus Mail on Thursday afternoon, said that procedure for the two tenders has been concluded and that applicants in […]

After the display of photographs within the collection Homo Urbanus Europeanus as part of the European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 events, the photos taken by the French photographer Jean-Marc Caracci will be back on the island tomorrow in Limassol. This time the collection will be hosted at 6X6 Centre for Photography until March 17. Caracci, […]

President Vladimir Putin unveiled an array of new nuclear weapons on Thursday, in one of his most bellicose speeches in years, saying they could hit almost any point in the world and not be intercepted. Speaking weeks before an election he is expected to win, Putin also said that a nuclear attack on any of […]