Новости за 25.05.2018

The government issued building permits for 25 high-rise buildings in the first three months of the year and 60 more are pending, most of them in Limassol, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday. The minister gave the figures as part of new pilot framework of “general principles and preconditions for the construction of high-rise […]

Footballers will not accept any restrictions to their freedom of movement rights in the European Union, their global union said on Friday in reply to comments by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin the day before. Ceferin said he wanted the EU to consider whether football should be given an exemption to laws allowing the free movement […]

June will start off in Paphos with a music festival that will set the mood for the summer while also financially helping the Cyprus Multiple Sclerosis Association. The Music Fest, which will take place on June 1 from 7pm until 10.30pm at the Pissouri Amphitheatre, will provide non-stop live performances by pop and rock acts. […]

The British bases have said that contrary to some reports in the local press they have not raised any objections to the Zakaki casino resort development project on environmental or any other grounds “as the Bases have no jurisdiction in areas of the Republic of Cyprus”. Reports have been rife in the Greek Cypriot press […]

Another Leptos Seafront development has been sold out due to the fact that Paphos has become again the new attraction for European and Russian buyers and investors who express their preference mainly in seafront luxury properties Leptos Kissonerga Beach Villas is a newly completed beachfront luxury project with exclusive Villas by Leptos Estates in Paphos, […]

BirdLife Cyprus said on Friday it found the opposition of the Game and Fauna Service to the temporary prohibition of hunting to be a shortsighted approach which risks the recovery of a threatened species. The game service said a week ago that it disagreed with the possible suspension of turtle-dove hunting on the instructions of […]

By Stelios Orphanides Hellas Direct, a digital-based insurance firm which was successful in “disrupting” the Greek market amid the crisis years, wants to do the same in Cyprus by snatching a share of up to one tenth of the total market by launching its home insurance product, the company said. “Hellas Direct is already one […]

The north is closely observing developments surrounding Yilmaz Gumus, a wanted Turkish national who was arrested in the Republic, reports said on Friday. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen, Turkish Cypriot co-chairman of the technical committee on crime Hakki Onen said it was too soon to begin contacts or moves on handing him over […]

The judge who tried the men who attacked Turkish Cypriot daily newspaper Afrika after it likened the Turkish invasion in Syria to Ankara’s occupation of Cyprus has resigned, it emerged on Friday. Tacan Reynar announced his resignation on Facebook. “I cannot continue to work under the current conditions, there is no point nor meaning in […]

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was threatened with no-confidence motions and demands for a snap election on Friday over a graft trial involving members of his party in which a judge cast doubt on his testimony. Rajoy said he would fight off a no-confidence vote and serve his four-year term, and ruled out calling an early election. “This […]

In 2017, a total of 64,000 UK residents were born in the Republic of Cyprus and 10,000 in the north of the Cyprus, according to the latest figures by the British National Bureau of Statistics. 56,000 Greek Cypriots live in England, 4,000 in different regions of Scotland, 3,000 in Wales and about 1,000 in Northern […]

Around 1,000 Liverpool football club fans have been left stranded following the cancellation of flights to Saturday’s Champions League final in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Chartered flights had been lined up to transport supporters to the game against Real Madrid. But operator World Choice Sports was forced to cancel them after not being able to secure landing slots […]

A magician who operated a mock casino at a Christmas event in Engomi Mall and was accused of running a betting operation was acquitted this week after a two-and-a-half-year court battle. At the final hearing the judge said the prosecution should have done better research and maintained a dialogue with the suspect’s lawyer. “It was […]

Andrew Heath Appointed Country Manager for Spain Brings 16 years’ offshore market experience to this major new initiative. Heath heads up expanded Spanish team to meet this fast-growing client base. ‘Seeing how forward-thinking Woodbrook are, I knew this was the match for me.’ Second key announcement following Mark Slevin’s appointment as Country Manager in Cyprus. […]

Rainbow flags were delivered to the municipalities of Paphos and Geroskipou today by the head of Accept Cyprus in support of the LGBT community and the fifth Cyprus Pride festival. The hashtag for the 2018 event is #makethechange and the festival will culminate in the Cyprus Pride Parade in Nicosia on June 3. Geroskipou will […]

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he was quietly confident that a strong early turnout in Ireland‘s abortion referendum on Friday would favour those seeking change in what only two decades ago was one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries. Opinion polls suggest voters in the once deeply Catholic nation are set to overturn one of the […]

A Sudanese teen sentenced to death after killing her husband as he tried to rape her has appealed the ruling amid growing support by celebrities and on social media. Lawyers defending 19-year-old Noura Hussein said they filed the appeal on Thursday, according to US rights group Equality Now, which has worked with the Khartoum-based Seema Foundation […]

US President Donald Trump said on Friday said it was possible a planned summit with North Korea‘s leader Kim Jong Un could still take place on June 12 as originally planned, just a day after he cancelled the meeting citing Pyongyang’s “tremendous anger and open hostility.” Trump welcomed the conciliatory statement from North Korea saying it remained open […]

North Korea said on Friday it was still open to talks with the United States after President Donald Trump called off a summit with leader Kim Jong Un, saying it hoped the “Trump formula” could resolve the standoff over its nuclear weapons programme. Trump on Thursday announced his withdrawal from what would have been the first-ever meeting […]

Pianist Maxime Zecchini will fill the walls of the Kastelliotissa Hall in Nicosia with melodies from Mozart, Alkan, Chopin and Schulhoff on Tuesday. Zecchini, the first French pianist to receive a degree from the prestigious Incontri col Maestro Academy in Imola, Italy, is a prize winner in a number of international music competitions, including being awarded […]

Turkey has paid the compensation and legal expenses awarded to a Greek Cypriot refugee by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in a land case in which it also ruled that a property commission in the breakaway state was ineffective. Achilleas Demetriades, the lawyer who represented Andriani Joannou, said Turkey paid through the Council […]

And now for something entirely different. When did you last eat in a brewery? In my case it was on the eve of the England-Wales game at Twickenham, 1968 for a private event. The centre piece was a huge poached Wye salmon accompanied by the finest cuts from the ovine, porcine and the bovine family. […]

By Stelios Orphanides Cypriot taxpayers may have to foot a bill of up to €600m in order to allow the government to successfully complete the sale of the state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank, Haravgi reported on Friday. The proposals submitted by Hellenic Bank, Cyprus’s third largest lender, and Apollo Capita Management, provide that in the best-case […]

A political row over Europe’s energy security is not hindering preparatory work for the subsea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, with dredging work starting off the Baltic coast last week. The new pipeline, an initiative of Russia‘s Gazprom and five European companies, will double Russia‘s export capacity of 55 billion cubic metres to Germany. However, […]

Film producer Harvey Weinstein on Friday surrendered to authorities at a New York City police station on sex crime charges, months after he was toppled from Hollywood’s most powerful ranks by scores of women accusing him of misconduct. More than 70 women have accused the co-founder of the Miramax film studio and Weinstein Co of sexual misconduct, including rape, […]