Новости за 24.02.2019

Manchester City won the English League Cup for the second successive season as the beat Chelsea 4-3 in a penalty shootout after the Wembley showpiece had ended 0-0 after extra time. City had been largely frustrated throughout the 90 minutes and the extra period as Chelsea grew into the game. But it was Pep Guardiola’s City who proved more clinical […]

By Elias Hazou EARLIER this month foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides sent a letter to his UK counterpart Jeremy Hunt, assuring him that the rights of British expats in Cyprus would be honoured in the event of an ‘orderly’, or agreed Brexit. At the same time, however, the British parliament has rejected the withdrawal agreement brokered […]

Liverpool took over at the top of the Premier League table despite being held to a 0-0 draw against Manchester United in a scrappy match on Sunday. Juergen Klopp’s side have now drawn three of their last four Premier League games and have 66 points from 27 games while second placed Manchester City, who play […]

Paphos is to be dressed in a German atmosphere under the sounds of Bach as it welcomes the 3rd Bach Birthday Festival. Organised by the Paphos Music Lovers Association, the whole month of March will fill up with concerts, a film screening and a lunch, dedicated to the German composer and musician’s birth on March […]

By Gwynne Dyer Donald Trump is a man of his word, and he promised his ‘base’ to build a wall on the US border with Mexico to stop an “invasion of gangs, invasion of drugs, invasion of people.” It turns out that Mexico isn’t willing to pay for it after all, but a promise is […]

Police announced on Sunday they would be launching a week-long campaign at traffic lights, to clamp down on drivers speeding through red lights and creeping over stop lines. The campaign will be part of efforts for the prevention and reduction of road accidents, but also raise road safety awareness among drivers and cyclists, police said. The campaign will […]

Each one of us produces a massive amount of waste, but even with recycling programme widely available will the island be able to cope once two landfill sites are closed by the end of the month asks Annette Chrysostomou We all throw things away every day – some make an attempt at recycling while others […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touched off rare criticism from AIPAC, the largest U.S. pro-Israel lobby, over an election alliance with a far-right party loyal to the policies of the late anti-Arab rabbi, Meir Kahane. Faced with a new merger of centrist parties that opinion polls show might defeat him, Netanyahu engineered the deal between […]

By Christos P Panayiotides Please follow my reasoning. The argument of the President of the Republic in favour of a ‘decentralised’ federation is straight forward: the more decisions that will need to be taken jointly by the two federated states, the higher the risk of the Turkish Cypriot community misusing its ‘at least one-positive-vote’ prerogative […]

More than a thousand foreign jihadists could still be sheltering among civilians in Islamic State’s final stronghold in east Syria, a shred of land riddled with defensive tunnels, an official with the U.S.-backed force trying to defeat them said on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia has surrounded the militants at the village of […]

Blood banks are in urgent need of donations of all blood types, the health ministry announced on Sunday. Due to the increased demand for transfusions since January 1, stocks at blood banks are extremely low, the ministry said, noting that over 12,000 blood derivatives were transfused since the beginning of the year – a number […]

By Demetris Theodorou A LATE-NIGHT announcement by Bank of Cyprus last Tuesday threw a good deal of light on the goings on in the bank’s progress in 2019. The announcement covered three issues: Capital Requirements, Helix progress and the infamous Deferred Tax Asset that was passed on the bank in 2013, during the Laiki takeover. […]

Dr Charles Ellinas The biggest and most important hydrocarbons conference and exhibition in Egypt and the East Med region, EGYPS 2019, took place in Cairo earlier this month, and Cyprus took part with a country pavilion showing the Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company (CHC) and natural gas public company (DEFA) among others. In a wide-ranging interview about […]

Prime Minister Theresa May is making progress on winning Brexit concessions from the European Union, a senior minister said on Sunday, as British lawmakers plotted to delay Britain’s March 29 exit or even push for another referendum. As the United Kingdom’s labyrinthine Brexit crisis goes down to the line, May is making a last-ditch effort […]

Travellers to the island over the centuries who were expecting Cypriot women to resemble the goddess of love were in many instances sorely disappointed By Lizzy Ioannidou THROUGHOUT the ages, the island’s fertile land, easy living, and ideas proclaiming its women as descendants of Aphrodite, drew travellers to Cyprus like a siren’s song, searching for […]

A motorcyclist aged 38, was killed in Paphos on Sunday when he lost control of the vehicle and hit an electricity pole, police said. The father of two from Yersokipou was riding along Europa Avenue in Paphos when, under conditions not yet clear, he lost control and hit the metal pole and was thrown from […]

A policeman was run over and injured on Sunday morning in Lakatamia by a reckless driver, who was arrested along with a passenger in the same car. According to police, at 10.20am the car was spotted by officers speeding through Lakatamia roads, mounting pavements and crashing into other vehicles. A police car chased the culprits […]

Pope Francis, ending a landmark conference on sexual abuse of minors by clergy, called on Sunday for an “all-out battle” against a crime he called abominable and that should be “erased from the face of the earth”. At the end of a Mass in the frescoed Sala Regia of Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, he promised that […]

By Dimis Michaelides Technology is the know-how of making valuable things happen. Innovation is the way humans derive value from new technology. Some humans, acting alone or in packs, will accelerate the potential of new technology and others will hold back. It is thus with digital transformation, a very broad set of game-changing technologies available […]

President Nicos Anastasiades arrived this morning at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh to participate in the first EU-Arab Leauge Summit. The President, who is accompanied by Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou, was welcomed at the airport by Minister of Environment Yiasmine Fouad and was received by the President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The EU-League of Arab […]

At least 150 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in a northeastern state of India, the second such tragedy in the country this month, with many more hospitalised as authorities try to pinpoint the source and round up perpetrators. The figure is based on reports from three hospitals in the eastern part of […]

The vast majority of medical societies explicitly dismissed claims of manipulation by the leadership of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), and declared that they will not be making any agreements with the state for their participation in the National Health Scheme (Gesy) if all demands of the association are not met. In an extraordinary meeting […]

By Yiannis Misirlis The success of capitalism derives from its decentralised nature, as consumers themselves are free to make decisions independently. In a free market environment, such as the current real estate market of Cyprus, the forces of supply and demand interact. In Limassol in particular, the big picture is clear: on the one hand […]

Musicians Sorin Alexandru Horlea and Anita Tomasevich will hold a concert next Sunday to present two monumental works by the two composers known as the true titans of Russian music, Dimitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. Hosted in Technopolis 20’s venue, Horlea on the violin and Tomasevich on the piano will play two of the greatest […]

Moldovans voted in an election on Sunday that is likely to produce a hung parliament, splitting the eastern European country between pro-Western and pro-Russian forces at a time when its relations with the European Union have soured. The current government wants closer EU integration and warns of catastrophe if the country falls back into Russia’s […]