Новости за 20.01.2019

By Annette Chrysostomou A new book sheds light on how Cyprus’ most famous fee-paying school, the English School, developed from its establishment in 1900 to the end of British rule in 1960. Aptly, it was researched and written by a man who was not only an ‘old boy’ but lived at the school’s boarding house […]

Former Attorney-general Alecos Markides believes Supreme Court President Myron Nicolatos should not resign but he conceded the judicial system needed an overhaul given some outdated attitudes that are seen from a different perspective today. Markides, in an interview with Politis, published on Sunday, was commenting on the furore surrounding Nicolatos, whose critics have focused on […]

By Desmond Smith IN THE harrowing opening scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood masterpiece, Saving Private Ryan, sea-sick US troops nervously approach the shores of occupied France, vomiting over the sides of their landing boats. They come under a hail of enemy fire and see their fellow men get blown to smithereens. Upon the release of […]

Facebook has launched German initiatives to defend election integrity and examine the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), its operations chief said on Sunday, seeking to convince sceptics it is serious about privacy and democracy. The world’s largest social network had a tough 2018 as it was buffeted by revelations that UK consultancy Cambridge Analytica had […]

If you didn’t partake of much wine over the holiday period fear not as another excuse to fill up glasses is coming. The Society of Wine Producers of Peloponisos vineyards are holding their second wine tasting event in Cyprus. The event invites wine professionals and aficionados to Carob Mill Restaurant in Limassol next Sunday, where […]

Unconventional Paphos-born composer has won awards for his monumental compositions By Bejay Browne The tak, tak of water dripping into a bucket from a leaking roof, the whoosh of steam from a coffee machine in a busy cafe should hardly count as music to the ear. But for Marios Joannou Elia, such sounds can become […]

By Les Manison A former finance ministry advisor writes an open letter to Finance Minister Harris Georgiades on the need to reform tax collection and payments so that public services can be improved Dear Minister of Finance, Harris Georgiades, The need to provide high quality public services, a characteristic of an advanced European state, and […]

A 56-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia on Sunday in connection with a suspected murder attempt in Aglandjia. According to police, at around 6:15am information was received that a young woman had fallen from the first floor of a block of flats. The young woman was found on the ground unconscious and was rushed to […]

Eight U.N. peacekeepers were killed and several were wounded while repelling an attack by armed assailants near a village in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African nation’s U.N. mission said. The identity of the attackers was not immediately clear. U.N. peacekeeping and French forces are stationed in northern Mali to combat well-armed jihadist groups […]

Tens of thousands of Greeks rallied in Athens on Sunday to protest against a deal with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia that settles a row between the two countries and is set for a vote in Greece’s parliament next week. Soon after the rally started at 1200 GMT, police fired tear gas to disperse […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci hit out at his ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay on Sunday through his Facebook page over the latter’s view on the Cyprus negotiations. A translation from Turkish provided by Unite Cyprus Now, gave Akinci’s response to Ozersay who the Turkish Cypriot leader said “felt the need to announce through media that he […]

Turkey will soon begin drilling in the maritime region of Cyprus and possibly areas “licensed by the Turkish Cypriots”, its energy minister Fatih Donmez was reported as saying on Sunday as he issued “a new warning” to Greek Cypriots. He also said that by late February or mid-March Ankara expected first results from drilling off […]

Pope Francis swiped a tablet on Sunday to launch a new app allowing the faithful to pray with him, and expressed his pain over the car bomb blast in Colombia and the latest Mediterranean migrant tragedy. He presented the Vatican’s latest digital platform, known as the Worldwide Network of Prayer with the Pope, during his […]

Paphos bus company Osypa employees were meeting at 3.30pm to decide whether to accept a deal agreed between the transport ministry and the company that would see them return to work. The deal – no details were made public – was reached on Saturday after long negotiations. At 11am Sunday the employees were briefed on […]

The fine levied on the unnamed woman for calling people who adopted Asian children Idiots is an incredibly dangerous precedent. Free speech is the voicing of one’s opinions and if the PC brigade get away with this, we are even further down Orwell’s road to 1984. The American constitution enshrines freedom of speech, thus Americans […]

By Erol Riza The early members of the Eurozone celebrated the establishment of the euro as the single currency for the eligible EU members states, but little did they know that two decades later there would be serious concern about the euro. Despite the serious misgivings of the Germans to give up their Deutsch mark, […]

Parliament cannot be allowed to hijack Brexit, Trade Minister Liam Fox said on Sunday, in a warning to lawmakers who want to take more control over Britain’s departure from the European Union. With just weeks to go before Britain is due to leave the EU, Prime Minister Theresa May will return to parliament on Monday […]

MELBOURNE, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Roger Federer’s bid for a hat-trick of Australian Open titles was crushed on Sunday as Greek wunderkind Stefanos Tsitsipas rose up to floor the Swiss master and become his nation’s first Grand Slam quarter-finalist. In a match pitting the oldest and youngest players left in the men’s draw, the 20-year-old […]

On a recent visit to Kritou Terra to see the wonderful waterfalls we were saddened to see rubbish thrown in the river which feeds the waterfalls. This and all the leftovers from picnics and bottles littered the small waterfall pool area. Why do thoughtless people do this? It serves only to ruin the beautiful surroundings […]

By Theodoros Mantis The social insurance plan and the imminent implementation of the national health scheme (Gesy) are among the most crucial chapters of the state’s social policy. From January 1, there will be changes to the contributions by employees, the self-employed and the optionally insured to the Social Insurance Scheme (SIS). The contribution by […]

By Lizzy Ioannidou It’s been the rainiest January in 30 years with water pouring into the island’s reservoirs, yet rather than this being an opportunity to decrease dependence on costly and environmentally unsustainable desalination plants, by Friday we were raising their operation to full capacity. As the torrential rainfall that marked the first half of […]

Water supply to the municipalities and communities in the peripheral area of ​​Paphos was fully restored and has continued uninterrupted from 4.30am Sunday, the Water Development Department (WDD) announced The announcement noted that “the intense rainfall of the three-day period from 14 to 16 January caused serious problems in the water supply sources of the […]

A bomb in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded nine on a public bus, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday. The blast came on the anniversary of Operation Olive Branch, an air and ground assault launched by Turkey in 2018 on the mainly-Kurdish Afrin to drive out the Syrian Kurdish […]

As we enter 2019, world leaders are faced with a political and economic landscape increasingly characterised by uncertainty and turbulence. It is in this environment, that they will come together next week in Davos to discuss the world’s shifting architecture. From Brexit, to de-globalisation, to disruptive technologies, no issue will go overlooked, making it the […]

By Katerina Andreou For all you Job seekers, restless professionals or simply curious people, 2019 is here and let’s take a look at what the local job market is doing. 2018 saw the Cyprus job market rather sluggishly get going, then subtly pick up pace around summer and then spike dramatically in the second half […]