Новости за 08.05.2018

It was only a matter of time before the shoot out with police officers in Limassol over the weekend was going to happen due to the economic difficulties plaguing the country, former chairman of the police association said on Tuesday. “It was bound to eventually happen in Cyprus. Police officers are shot at in other […]

MPs on Tuesday called for the scrapping of the €350 annual fee for corporations, with the government saying it would consider the proposal and come back with its own suggestions. The Elam party has tabled a legislative proposal abolishing the fee, which it says is an additional burden on small-sized and family businesses already struggling […]

Chairwoman of a delegation from the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament Cecilia Wilkstrom on Tuesday told refugees from Famagusta that even though she could not give them hope to return home, her committee was trying to look at any small step forward to help them. The delegation was in Cyprus to conduct a […]

Approximately 12 per cent of Cypriots are carriers of Beta minus thalassaemia, while another 700 people have the disease, the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) said on Tuesday, World Thalassaemia Day. Treatment for those with the disease is provided at four clinics located within hospitals on the island. CING noted that the scientific […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pulled the United States out of an international agreement aimed at stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, and said he would reimpose economic sanctions on Tehran immediately. The decision is likely to raise the risk of conflict in the Middle East, upset America’s European allies and disrupt global oil […]

The government has leased two helicopters for the summer period to be used for fire-fighting purposes, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The helicopters have been at the disposal of the Republic since Monday, the ministry said, after receiving the green light from a special interior ministry committee tasked with overseeing their lease. Before giving […]

Cyprus, Greece and Israel on Tuesday confirmed they would be preparing and signing an inter-state agreement for the EastMed gas pipeline within 2018. Following the fourth trilateral summit, held in Nicosia, President Nicos Anastasiades, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of the pipeline project, saying in their […]

Nigerian migrants who survived a deadly sea crossing last year filed a lawsuit against Italy for violating their rights by supporting Libya’s efforts to return them to North Africa, their lawyers said on Tuesday. Seventeen plaintiffs petitioned the European Court of Human Rights last week, Violeta Moreno-Lax, a legal advisor for the Global Legal Action […]

Prime Minister Theresa May was dealt a new defeat by Britain’s upper house of parliament on Tuesday over her main Brexit legislation, this time opposing her plans to leave EU agencies. This is the 11th time in recent weeks that the government has been defeated in the House of Lords on the draft legislation that […]

The new parliament building will be sited at Pasydy hill in the centre of Nicosia, the ministry of transport said on Tuesday. The ministry appeared to be putting its foot down and ending a debate on where parliament should be relocated to after various alternative sites were proposed. “The new parliament building will be built […]

In a March speech at a Washington, D.C. law school, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions slammed “activist” federal judges for blocking some of President Donald Trump’s key initiatives, voicing again a favorite grievance of the administration and Trump himself. Pointing to courtroom losses on policies such as the travel ban, the Trump administration and its […]

Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Tuesday that police will be cracking down on organised crime following an incident in Limassol in which two officers were shot, critically injuring one. In a broad meeting with all departments involved in crime fighting, it was decided that each person involved in organised crime will have to deal […]

The Bank of Cyprus’ board of directors is set to look into how it will handle its largest shareholder Viktor Vekselberg after US authorities included his name and companies he controls in a new list of sanctions, a source said on Tuesday. “OFAC sanctions concern the individual, connected persons and companies controlled to over 50 […]

The fate of the landmark nuclear deal signed by Iran and six major powers in July 2015 hangs in the balance ahead of an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump due on Tuesday at 1800 GMT. European officials said Trump is expected to announce that he is pulling out of the agreement. Below are some […]

Police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted in connection with a shootout in Limassol at the weekend that saw an officer critically injured and a second sustaining lighter injuries. Police said Elias Mouzos, 38, was detained at around 11.30am in Kapilio village in Limassol. Mouzos had been sought in connection with a gunfight in Ypsonas […]

Bus company Osypa in Paphos will begin an indefinite strike on Wednesday, the second one this month, as they have yet to be paid their wages for April, they said on Tuesday. The strike is expected to affect 18,000 passengers of which 6,000 are students. A host of tourists, pensioners and the wider general public […]

By Stelios Orphanides The Central Bank of Cyprus is likely to issue new and stricter guidelines to supervised lenders governing anti-money laundering requirements as early as next week, a source familiar with the matter said. “There are two areas that need to be addressed more effectively,” a source familiar with the matter said in a […]

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the biggest overhaul of data privacy laws in over 20 years. The law will come into force on May 25, giving EU citizens new rights over how their personal data are used. Companies doing business in the EU will face new rules on how they handle […]

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho believes “nothing is impossible” for Portugal at this year’s World Cup in Russia with Cristiano Ronaldo in the team. The 33-year-old Real Madrid forward played a crucial role in helping his country to Euro 2016 glory in France, and has enjoyed another impressive campaign with his Spanish club, scoring 42 […]

Opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected Armenia’s prime minister on Tuesday, capping a peaceful revolution driven by weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic. Moscow, which has a military base in Armenia, is wary of an uncontrolled change of power which would pull the country out of its orbit, but […]

By Evie Andreou Mystery surrounds the fate of one of the Siberian tigers at a controversial Nicosia private zoo following reports by animal activists that one of the two tigers is believed to be dead as it has not been seen in its enclosure. A lawyer from Luxemburg, advisor to a number of animal protection […]

We have seen it time and time again, music brings people together and also cultures together and this is what the two performances by the French choir the Chorale Alliance Choir with local choirs will do this week. The first, on Friday, will be performed in Yermosoyia with the Yermasoyia Municipality choir and the second […]

Police on Tuesday informed residents in the Limassol district that destruction of ammunition was taking place at RAF Akrotiri until 4pm. The work will be completed on Thursday. The bases announced last week that routine explosive demolitions would be conducted at RAF Akrotiri between 9am and 4pm from May 8 to 10. “Please do not be concerned […]

I had a lot of misconceptions about Tinder. Some were based on news articles (it’s all married men out for a bit on the side). Many were founded on hearsay (Tinder is dead, long live Badoo). Still others were built on the premise that, regardless of anything else, Cyprus would be well behind the Tinder […]

By Preston Wilder The new Overboard is that rare thing: a remake of an 80s hit that could actually have been made in the 80s. This is not the way it usually goes. The 80s-remake racket – as well as being thoroughly unnecessary – is fraught with self-loathing; these are movies people remember fondly from […]