Новости за 17.10.2018

Theresa May has told EU leaders that “courage, trust and leadership” will be needed on both sides to achieve a Brexit deal. Speaking to leaders of the 27 remaining EU states in Brussels, May said she remains “confident” that a good outcome can be reached to negotiations which stalled last weekend over the intractable issue […]

Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has undergone surgery for a hand injury sustained on international duty with Senegal, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Mane missed Senegal’s 1-0 win over Sudan on Tuesday in African Nations Cup qualifying and joined a growing list of injured players at Liverpool ahead of Saturday’s league trip to Huddersfield […]

Captain Eoin Morgan smashed his second half-century in two games and Adil Rashid took four wickets to help England crush Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the rain-marred third one-day international on Wednesday. Chasing 151 in 21 overs after persistent rain had shortened the match, the visitors rode on Morgan’s unbeaten 58, including seven fours, […]

Transport Minister Vasiliki Anastasiadou has pledged state support for all those stranded either in Cyprus or overseas by the collapse of Cobalt Air, as the airline expressed great regret for the suspension of its operations, saying it was a “sad day” for employees and passengers alike. Anastasiadou said telephone numbers would be announced soon to help […]

Cobalt airlines, the largest Cyprus-based airline, grounded all its flights as of midnight on Wednesday, after reports said that the company failed to reach a deal with a potential European investor. All flights were cancelled after the last one which arrived at Larnaca airport from Heathrow at 12.20 on Thursday morning. The Cobalt website instructed […]

  State doctors – members of civil servants’ union Pasydy – called on the government on Wednesday to keep its promise and solve existing problems in public hospitals such as understaffing, long patient waiting lists and infrastructure. In a statement, the union’s branch of doctors and state hospital clinic directors, called on the health ministry […]

British charities have systematically failed to flag up cases of sexual harassment and abuse, with less than one per cent reporting a safeguarding incident in the last four years, a watchdog said on Wednesday. The aid industry came under scrutiny earlier this year, when revelations that Oxfam staff used prostitutes in Haiti during an earthquake […]

Pep Guardiola will provide the “reference” for Thierry Henry as he begins his managerial career at Monaco. The Manchester City manager worked with Henry while both were at Barcelona from 2008-2010, and although he was phased out under him, the Frenchman remains an avid admirer. As with Guardiola at Barca, Henry’s first job in management […]

Limassol port workers went on an impromptu two-hour strike on Wednesday, with unions citing that there has been no change in working conditions despite four-month long efforts to reach an agreement. The strike lasted from 3pm until 5pm, when workers from P&O Maritime Cyprus stopped working, saying that their working conditions are difficult, and that […]

The Co-Op Bank did not close naturally, it was ‘murdered’ by the actions of the Christofias government, former central bank (CBC) governor Athanasios Orphanides told an inquiry on Wednesday. Orphanides told the three-member panel via teleconference from the US that when the 2013 Pimco report was filed on the capital needs of the banking system […]

The Strovolos Co-operative Bank, the largest co-op, ran the biggest risk of closing and losing people’s deposits, former central bank governor Athanasios Orphanides told an inquiry on Wednesday, but only the government could have intervened since the sector was ruled by a “closed circuit”. “If you asked, which bank would it be, if a lender […]

The commissioner for the EU budget, Guenther Oettinger, on Wednesday denied a media report saying the EU Commission had already decided to reject Italy’s draft budget for next year. “I did not say there is a Commission decision on Italy,” he wrote on Twitter after German magazine Der Spiegel published an interview with him on […]

Two men, 37 and 52, were sentenced to jail by the Limassol criminal court on Wednesday for importing, possessing and intending to sell drugs. One man, 37, was sentenced to seven and half years in prison, while the 52-year-old was sentenced to nine years in prison. Police said that the two men were discovered on […]

Tourist arrivals in Cyprus recorded a historic high in September 2018 and in the first nine months of the year, figures released on Wednesday by the Statistical Service show. Cystat reported that arrivals of tourists reached 520,138 in September 2018 compared to 483,716 in September 2017, an increase of 7.5 per cent. “September 2018 had the highest […]

  Documents leaked to the media, calling on the private health sector to boycott the National Health Scheme (Gesy) to force the government to satisfy their demands, seem to confirm that some doctors are trying to scupper the scheme, the health minister said on Wednesday. The minister, Constantinos Ioannou, said that it was a “common […]

Britain’s opposition Labour Party could win power from Theresa May’s ruling Conservatives in the coming months and quickly tie up a new and different Brexit deal with the European Union, the party’s finance policy chief John McDonnell said on Wednesday. With less than six months to go until Britain leaves the EU, May is locked […]

England’s Football Association says their plan to sell Wembley Stadium will not go ahead after potential purchaser, American Shahid Khan, withdrew his offer. “At a recent meeting with Mr Khan he expressed to us that, without stronger support from within the game, his offer is being seen as more divisive than it was anticipated to […]

A court in Guernsey has appointed two administrators to oversee the winding up of construction company J&P Overseas Limited, which went into administration last week after its lenders rejected its restructuring proposal. The court appointed Ben Cairns, a managing director at consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal, and Carl Bowles, a senior director at the same […]

Repurposing ordinary materials, Dimitris Ntokos’ ongoing exhibition Artist’s Diaries at Isnotgallery centres on the beetle, which is presented in repeating patterns within elaborate symbols. The artist himself characterises this work as a diary of his thoughts. The beetle, a symbol linked to Egyptian mythology, is at times used as a frame around and within which […]

Film-making has taken the island’s creative industry by the storm in the last couple of years, with new works and festivals popping up. With the increase of independent films there’s a whole new focus on filming and the European Union wants to encourage youth to get involved. A new competition, #EUandME, gives the chance to […]

Four former executives of the now defunct Laiki Bank who were found guilty last week of market manipulation will be sentenced on November 2, the criminal court announced on Wednesday. Managing director Efthimios Bouloutas, deputy managing director Panayiotis Kounnis, vice-president Neoclis Lysandrou, and executive board member Marcos Foros, were found guilty on two charges of […]

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Cyprus has arranged for the screening of ‘Human Flow’ a documentary by renowned artist Ai Weiwei, on refugees. Human Flow has been screened in select theatres around the world, and UNHCR’s Office in Cyprus brings the film to Cypriot audiences for its premiere one-night-only screening in […]

Students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) in the United Kingdom are travelling to Cyprus to explore new ways of helping refugees and migrants. DMU has been asked by the United Nations to take the lead in engaging the higher education sector worldwide to be part of the #JoinTogether campaign and will visit a partner […]

Canada became the first industrialised nation to legalise recreational cannabis on Wednesday, but a lawful buzz will be hard to come by in its biggest cities like Toronto and Vancouver, which will have no stores open. Weed enthusiasts in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s easternmost province, kicked off the first permissible sales at midnight. Over 100 […]

The Turkish Cypriot side does not accept a ‘loose federation’ as a way of reunifying the island, Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay has said, adding that the Greek Cypriots’ refusal to share power and natural resources was the reason the talks collapsed last year and not the guarantees. In an interview with CNN Turk, […]