Новости за 18.09.2018

The government on Tuesday issued a €1.5bn European Medium Term Note with a ten-year maturity with a coupon rate of 2.375 per cent and a primary market yield of 2.4 per cent. The issue, the first after the island’s sovereign rating was upgraded by Standard and Poor’s on Friday to BBB-, the first investment grade […]

Cyprus and Egypt will sign an agreement for an underwater natural gas pipeline on Wednesday, set to be the first of its type for the region, Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis said on Tuesday. Lakkotrypis and his Egyptian counterpart Tarek el Mollahad held a meeting in the evening with President Nicos Anastasiades, where they informed him […]

Passengers and crew were evacuated from a plane that requested to land at Paphos airport on Tuesday night due to an emergency. According to the Hermes Airports spokesman Adamos Aspris, the airport was put on guard at approximately 8:50pm when a passenger plane which was in Cyprus’ airspace heading for Egypt requested to land. “All […]

The state audit service published European-wide statistics on salaries and working hours on Tuesday that showed Cypriot teachers were better paid and worked less hours than most of their colleagues in the EU. According to the 2015-2016 European Commission’s report Eurydice, the difference between the minimum and maximum salary in Cyprus was the second highest […]

Gay dating app Grindr has announced a “zero tolerance policy” towards racism, transphobia and other discrimination on the platform as it looks to crack down on abusive behaviour within the LGBT dating scene. The company said it would ban users who used hateful language and may even remove options allowing users to filter potential dates […]

Inter Milan struck twice late on to secure a stunning 2-1 victory over a crestfallen Tottenham Hotspur in their Group B opener at the San Siro on Tuesday. Mauro Icardi’s superb volley levelled the scores in the 86th minute and Matias Vecino headed a stoppage-time winner to give Inter a victory that for most of […]

Ypsonas municipality in Limassol will launch a pilot program in October to reward citizens who recycle, offering them a reduction of up to 30 per cent on their annual rubbish fee, mayor Pantelis Georgiou said on Tuesday. A mobile application has been developed, as part of the programme, allowing citizens to notify the municipality once […]

A failure in a new round of Cyprus negotiations would completely change the basis of a dialogue, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday during an interview with the Cyprus News Agency. He added that the change would not be because of the Greek Cypriot side’s wish for that to happen, but because the parties involved […]

Organisers of the Cyprus Rally on Tuesday said the maps they used for the routes and special stages of the event are those used internationally after they were put on the spot for including the unauthorised Turkish names for some areas in the north. The issue was raised by the Greens’ MP Giorgos Perdikis, who […]

One-two for TOYOTA GAZOO Racing and a hat-trick for Tänak The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team has finished first and second on a gruelling Rally Turkey with drivers Ott Tänak and Jari-Matti Latvala. It is the first such result for the team since its return to the FIA World Rally Championship at the start […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her push to fill a record number of vacancies risks angering voters who still resent her open-door refugee policy. With an ageing population and a shrinking workforce, Germany needs greater flexibility to fill more […]

The EU will send a team of experts to Cyprus to discuss with the authorities ways to prevent further pressure on the island from any future inflow of refugees, mainly from war-torn neighbouring Syria, a senior Commission official said on Tuesday. European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said the EU is […]

Legislators warned on Tuesday that Cyprus could be liable to significant fines from the EU, after learning that the timetable for opening up the energy market has past again with the transition now being pushed back from July 2019 to ‘sometime in 2020’ in the best-case scenario. The delay, MPs learned, is due to complications […]

Weekends are for family time, fun and the chance to get out and experience new things. This Saturday the Alumni Office of the University of Cyprus offers the chance to do just that with a performance by Mr Kich and the Secret Box of Sounds. The play, created by the Copernicus artistic team, is a musical […]

China will levy tariffs on about $60bn worth of US goods in retaliation for the latest round of US tariffs on Chinese products, as previously planned, but has reduced the level of tariffs that it will collect on the products. The tit-for-tat measures are the latest escalation in an increasingly protracted trade dispute between the […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday said the state and teachers shared equal responsibility for the two-day strike at schools across the island, which was the result of dispute that started in July and is not yet close to being resolved. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency, Anastasiades expressed regret over the strike, adding […]

Coffee enthusiasts will soon be able to enjoy the Starbucks experience at the brand-new Nicosia Mall. With the opening of its new store at Nicosia Mall, the Starbucks family – which operates in Cyprus from 2003, with a presence in popular retail destinations in Nicosia as well as in central urban locations – is expanding, […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened further retaliation against China if Beijing targets US agricultural or industrial workers amid a trade dispute, and accused China of trying to sway the US election by targeting farmers. Trump made the accusations in a pair of Twitter posts as the two sides launched new trade tariffs in an […]

On Wednesday 12th September 2018, Perrier bid farewell to the summer, in the most #extraordinaire way! 150 extraordinaire guests, received an invitation hidden in the most iconic bottle of all time, for the most impressive boat party of the year. Just after sun set, at the old port in Limassol, guests boarded the Perrier Catamaran […]

By Annette Chrysostomou Prices of products sold in the north are now almost 50 per cent lower than in the government-controlled areas according to a survey by the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce, following the massive fall in the Turkish lira. The survey, conducted on September 6, was published in the newspaper Halkin Sesi which listed […]

Greece said on Tuesday it would move 2,000 asylum-seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland by the end of the month as pressure mounted on the government to ease overcrowding. Human rights groups and local authorities have criticised Greece for the poor conditions at the country’s biggest migrant camp, Moria, currently operating at […]

A 49-year-old man is in hospital after allegedly being physically assaulted by a 42-year-old in Paphos. According to the victim, at around 2am on Tuesday, the younger man assaulted him, injuring him on various parts of his body. The victim was transferred to the emergency department of the Paphos general hospital where he was treated […]

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company, on Monday named its first private passenger on a voyage around the moon as Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo. A former drummer in a punk band, Maezawa is tentatively planning to make his moon flight in 2023 aboard SpaceX’s forthcoming […]

British bases police arrested two men on Tuesday morning after finding guns and explosives in their vehicle, they said. Initial reports suggest that the vehicle was under surveillance by Cypriot police, who notified their bases counterparts when the two men had entered their jurisdiction. Patrol cars belonging to the bases police stopped the vehicle. Two […]

By Evie Andreou All state schools remained closed on Tuesday as teachers went on a 48-hour strike over their disagreement with the government on measures aiming at the streamlining of public education. Education Minister, Costas Hambiaouris, expressed his hope that the 48-hour strike  would be the catalyst for change in public education.  Speaking to the […]