Новости за 09.09.2018

Serena Williams has been fined $17,000 for the code violations she received during the U.S. Open final, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) said on Sunday. During Saturday’s match, which she lost 6-2 6-4 to Japan’s Naomi Osaka, Williams, was handed a coaching violation and a point penalty for breaking her racquet before a heated […]

Seven fires broke out on Sunday in the Paphos region and most of them have been brought under control. According to the police, a fire broke out in the agricultural region of Nata at 1pm. The fire was put out by 4pm after fire engines from Paphos went to the scene. It destroyed four hectares […]

Seven fires broke out on Sunday in the Paphos region and most of them have been brought under control. According to the police, a fire broke out in the agricultural region of Nata at 1pm. The fire was put out by 4pm after fire engines from Paphos went to the scene. It destroyed four hectares […]

Around 300 people on Sunday attended a service at the occupied Kanakaria church in Lythangomi. The three hour service was led by the Karpasia bishop Christoforos. Those at the service included the vice president of Disy George Hadigeorgiou and Disy Famagusta MPs George Karoullas, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannia and Onoufrios Koullas. The Byzantine church was twice destroyed […]

  By George Georgiopoulos Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, seeking re-election next year, said on Sunday that Greece would not need to cut pensions or raise taxes as planned because it was beating the budget targets agreed with its lenders. Tsipras, a leftist elected in 2015 but trailing badly in opinion polls, also pledged not to […]

By Gavin Jones There’s a four-minute clip entitled ‘Jews vs. Arabs’ currently doing the rounds made by a Palestinian who was in the process of making a video in Jerusalem. While he was setting up his equipment, an Orthodox Jew happened to be passing by and when the Palestinian revealed his ethnicity, the Jew told […]

Teaching unions Poed, Oelmek and Oeltek held a meeting on Sunday to decide their way forward as the crisis in education hands over the start of the new school year on Monday. The three unions decided they would continue to present a united front until a solution is found to their problems. According to Poed, […]

There are enough bomb shelters for just 30 per cent of the population By Annette Chrysostomou There are more than 2,000 bomb shelters in Cyprus, but how many people are aware of where they are and whether they are enough for the island’s population? I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I had never […]

The success of our efforts to modernise the education system rely to a large extent to the close co-operation between all sides involved in schooling, Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris said on Sunday in his message for the start of the school year on Monday. “With unlimited respect for the uniqueness, the specialities and the needs […]

My neighbour’s trees were planted almost touching our southern boundary and are about 7 metres tall. He reluctantly agrees to have them trimmed a little on condition that we pay the whole cost and that includes the overhanging branches on our side and where his trees extend across the bottom of our cul-de-sac and a […]

A 22-year-old was remanded in custody on Sunday by Limassol district court in connection with a case of burglary of a shop, theft and conspiracy to commit a crime. He was arrested on Saturday after the shop was broken into on August 20. At around 3.40 in the morning of August 20, police received information […]

President Nicos Anastasiades is to travel to New York later in September to attend the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations, which he will address. Anastasiades is also expected to have a meeting with the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres. The general assembly will be held from September 22 to 29, while Anastasiades is […]

I ADMIT that I have difficulty following through newspapers and TV, the public inquiry into the collapse of the cooperative credit institutions.  I had similar difficulties in following the public inquiry into the collapse of the Cyprus economy in 2013. Given that, in both cases, the subject matter of the investigation is within the realm […]

The primary school in Episkopi, Limassol will remain closed on Monday after a decision was taken by the parents and village authority. Building works continue at the school for the third year and parents say the place is dangerous for the children. The parents have branded the school a ‘minefield’ as in addition to it […]

Heavy rainfall in the mountainous regions of Limassol and Morphou has swept rocks and soil onto roads, while vision in the rainfall is reduced, prompting police to issue a warning to drivers to take care. Mud and rocks have been swept onto the Troodos-Platres and Troodos-Prodromos roads, while roads higher up have reduced visibility. Heavy […]

By Andonis Vassiliades It is hard to believe that in less than seven months the UK will be leaving the EU. With the British government’s publication of a series of notes advising people and businesses of the potential risks of not reaching an exit agreement with the EU and offering advice on how to protect […]

The upward trend in the registration of new companies continued in August, data released by the Registrar of Companies shows. The number of applications for the registration of a new company rose by 9.8 per cent, reaching 1,003 this August compared to 913 in August last year. In the first eight months of 2018 applications […]

The relation between a bank and its customer is of such a nature that it gives the right to the bank to set-off the customer’s debit and credit balances irrespective of the type of his accounts. The bank in this respect has the right to ascertain how an account of a customer stands through a […]

The latest developments in Cyprus negotiations, boosting bilateral ties, EU-Turkey relations, immigration and other regional issues will be discussed on Monday in Berlin between Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides and his German counterpart Heiko Maas. Christodoulides will leave Cyprus on Sunday afternoon following an invitation from the German minister. The two ministers will have a meeting […]

By Lizzy Ioannidou In a coffeeshop in Gerakies, encircled by half a dozen elderly local farmers, the community leader of the nearby village of Kalopanayiotis in the Nicosia district, Yiannis Papadouris bemoans the fact that “at some point, Gerakies had 600 residents and 60 mouflons. Today they have 600 mouflons and 60 residents.” “There’s not […]

Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson has said Prime Minister Theresa May “wrapped a suicide vest around the British constitution and handed the detonator” to the European Union with her Brexit plans, in comments that drew strong criticism. In a column in the Mail on Sunday newspaper, Johnson described May’s so-called Chequers plan to leave […]

The fire in the Alassa area near Kourris dam reignited at around 11.15 on Sunday morning, the fire service announced. Strong winds are blowing in the area, making the job of containing the flams more difficult. According to the fire service, seven fire engines from the service have been joined in the area by two […]

A total of seven hectares of dry plants, weeds and pine trees were destroyed in a fire that broke out shortly after midnight on Sunday morning in the area of Kourris dam, which was brought under control in the early hours. The fire service received a call at 00.50 about a fire in Alassa, near […]

By Charles Ellinas While Cyprus is rushing into renegotiating the Aphrodite gasfield production sharing agreement – unwisely as I demonstrated in my August 26 article in the Sunday Mail – there appears to be paralysis on three major energy fronts: the national energy plan to 2030, liberalisation of the energy sector and the plans to […]

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Cyprus in November for talks with President Nicos Anastasiades, with whom he is set to announce a number of bilateral agreements. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Macron’s visit is also related to an invitation extended to him six months ago by the Rector of the University […]