Новости за 10.01.2019

PORT workers and tallymen working at Limassol harbour gave their unions the green light on Thursday to initiate strike action, which if implemented could bring the island’s main cargo port to a grind. Workers belonging to the PEO, SEK and Deok unions voted unanimously to authorise their respective syndicates to strike unless the government meets […]

Private doctors belonging to the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) were on Thursday evening meeting to discuss whether they would be joining the national health scheme, with their final decision seen as critical to the scheme’s future. Their gathering began at 7.30pm and was expected to last beyond midnight. The association represents some 40 societies of […]

General Claudio Graziano, the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee (Eumc) is currently on a visit to Cyprus, where he will be meeting with various officials. On Friday, Graziano will be received by the head of the National Guard, Lieutenant-General Elias Leontaris. The two will later make statements to the press. Graziano will also be meeting […]

The tender documents for the four contracts – worth a combined €3.5bn – for the design and construction of the EuroAsia Interconnector were on Thursday published in the official journal of the EU. The EuroAsia Interconnector is a European Project of Common Interest, also labelled as an ‘electricity highway’ by the European Commission, connecting the […]

Mexican authorities are investigating a battle between two suspected gangs that left at least 20 bodies, 17 of them burned, in a border town near where U.S President Donald Trump will visit on Thursday to win support for his plan to build a wall. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his daily morning […]

By Emilia Christofi Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday joined forces to protect and preserve the Monastery of St Panteleimonas in the north of the island, which was vandalised only two years after it was restored. Α community clean-up event was organised at the monastery, in Myrtou, where representatives from the Technical Committee on […]

Two Brexit-supporting former British defence chiefs have said that Prime Minister Theresa May’s European Union withdrawal agreement will threaten national security if it is passed by lawmakers next week, Sky News reported on Thursday. Former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service Richard Dearlove and the former Chief of Defence Staff Charles Guthrie warned the agreement […]

Motor vehicles sales in Cyprus rose by 13.3 per cent in 2018 marking the fifth consecutive annual increase since 2014. According to data released by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), total new registration of motor vehicles reached 49,450 in 2018 compared with 43,640 the year before, reaching the highest point in the last ten years. […]

Russia’s state communications regulator said on Thursday the BBC had published material that propagated the ideas of a terrorist group and that it was investigating whether the British public broadcaster had broken Russian law. Russia said last month it was launching an investigation into the BBC in response to pressure it said London was applying […]

The UN Secretary-General`s report on the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is expected to be handed over to the UN Security Council members on Thursday or Friday at the latest. The report will also be posted on the UN website. According to the revised provisional programme of the work of the Security Council for […]

EU member states spent a total of almost €320 billion on Research & Development (R&D) in 2017, according to Eurostat, but Cyprus scored fourth lowest in the rankings. The R&D intensity, which is expenditure as a percentage of GDP, stood at 2.07 per cent in the EU in 2017, compared with 2.04 per cent in […]

Natural gas discovered off Cyprus should be marketed through Turkey or else it would not be a viable project, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. In an interview with Turkey’s NTV, Cavusoglu suggested that all parties shared the same view. “They are discussing other things to muddy the water,” he said. “If it doesn’t […]

In the National Museum of Damascus, archaeologist Muntajab Youssef works on an ancient stone bust from Palmyra, one of hundreds of artefacts his team is painstakingly restoring after they were damaged by Islamic State. Centuries-old statues and sculptures were wrecked by the jihadists when they twice seized control of the old city in central Syria […]

A woman and her two sons suffocated to death in Nepal after she was forced to sleep in a windowless shed during her period, police said on Thursday, the latest victims of an age-old Hindu practice that was banned more than a decade ago. Amba Bohara, 35, and her sons, aged 12 and nine, had […]

Wrap up, brave the cold that’s (finally) taken over the island and head to Technopolis 20 for yet another night of music galore. Tuneful events don’t seem to end at this west coast music hub and its upcoming concert promises romance with the tittle Walking Under the Stars. Cellist Robertas Grod together with pianist Eugenijus […]

  Potato crops in the ‘red soil’ villages of Famagusta were severely damaged by frost on Wednesday night as temperatures fell below zero. “The frost affected several potato crops in areas spanning from Sotira until Xylofagou and significant damage was caused,” Giannakis Gabriel, the regional secretary of the Union of Cyprus Farmers (UCF) said on […]

A 40-year-old Greek Cypriot fugitive detained in the north was on Thursday remanded in custody for 24 hours. Iosif Iosif, aka Sifis, was detained by Turkish Cypriot police on Wednesday afternoon in a flat in Famagusta. He was found in possession of two 9mm pistols and ammunition. He was remanded in custody in connection with […]

With winter in full swing and the temperature dropping, when going out for a drink it’s nice to feel as though you are in a welcoming, warm, cosy environment. This is exactly the feeling you get when walking in to Finnigans Irish bar. Finnigans Irish Bar has light wooden furnishings with luxurious looking upholstery, and […]

A car chase by Limassol police on Wednesday night led to the arrest of a 20-year-old woman who was a passenger in the vehicle in which police found burglary tools and traces of drugs. Police are still searching for the driver, whom the woman identified as a 37-year-old man. An arrest warrant has also been […]

The auditor-general is asking the cabinet to examine, as a matter of urgency, the possibility of a conflict of interest in the employment of a senior health official overseeing the implementation of the national health system (Gesy), it emerged on Thursday. In an urgent letter, Odysseas Michaelides is asking the cabinet to review the appointment […]

When you hear of nicotine, the first thing that comes to mind is tobacco whether it be smoking or vaping but there are also other plants such as potatoes, capsicum, tomatoes, and chili pepper among many that contain traces of nicotine. However, tobacco is used due to higher concentration amounts of 8% to 14%. What […]

The Chelyabinsk Drama Youth Theatre is taking to the stage and presenting the fairytale play Let’s not fly anywhere, Hedgehog…” based on the interaction between three unlikely animal friends later in January in theatres in Larnaca, Nicosia and Limassol. Similar to the messages that Christmas stands for, the play is a fairytale about kindness, friendship […]

ANKARA, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Turkey may buy U.S. Patriot missile systems if conditions are right, but a deal will be impossible if Washington forces Ankara not to purchase the S-400 systems which it agreed to buy from Russia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. In an interview with broadcaster NTV, Cavusoglu said Turkey […]

The Aglantzia municipality is organising English lessons for third country nationals, it was announced on Thursday. The lessons are part of the training, capacity building and orientation programmes offered under the project “Colourful Societies”. “Colourful Societies” is co-funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (90 per cent) and the Cyprus government (10 per cent) […]

  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS, Jan 8 (Reuters) – The European Union is looking at how Brexit might be postponed and is open to the idea, with EU officials talking of delays from a few weeks to a full year, but it questions whether any such move can prevent a divided nation crashing out in […]