Новости за 04.03.2019

  By Deisy Buitrago, Angus Berwick and Carlos Jasso Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido returned to his country on Monday after flouting a court-imposed travel ban by touring Latin American countries to boost support for his campaign to tighten regional pressure on President Nicolas Maduro. A crowd of cheering supporters greeted Guaido and his wife […]

A committee at the European Parliament on Monday gave the thumbs up to scrapping the twice-yearly clock change in the European Union but with a two-year delay to 2021. Last year, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker kicked off the debate with his proposal to halt the decades-old practice of daylight savings time in 2019, garnering […]

  Actor Luke Perry, who rose to superstardom on the teen-oriented 1990s U.S. television drama “Beverly Hills 90210” and then aged into a fatherly role on comic-based “Riverdale,” died on Monday at the age of 52 after suffering a “massive” stroke last week, his publicist said. Publicist Arnold Robinson said Perry died in a Los […]

Cyprus’ new museum is expected to be ready by June 2024 at a cost of €83m, it was announced on Monday, as pen to paper was put on the contracts. The competition for the construction of the museum, which will be located at the vacant site of the old Nicosia general hospital, will be announced […]

  The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Monday said it is opposed to the planned reinstatement of the dividends policy by which the state-run entity will again be required to divert part of its surpluses to the treasury. Speaking in parliament, EAC head Emily Yioliti said bringing back the dividends would deprive the state-run […]

Well-known works by Greek Cypriot artists Yiorgos Paul Georgiou, Stelios Votsis, and Christophoros Savva are among the 219  which the north will return to their owners as part of a confidence-building measure agreed between the two leaders last week. The measure will also see the return of audio-visual material by Turkish Cypriot artists stored by […]

-Inside the Touchdown Tavern in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin, voter Aric Nowicki worries over how the impending release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation could affect the 2020 election for president. Nowicki is not concerned about potential harm to President Donald Trump if Mueller accuses the Republican’s campaign of working with Russia […]

A museum in Britain has agreed to return a ruler’s locks of hair cut from his corpse by a British soldier more than 150 years ago, Ethiopia said on Monday. Emperor Tewodros II took his own life after his defeat by British troops at the Battle of Magdala in northern Ethiopia in 1868. His son, […]

Following a motion by state prosecutors, Nicosia criminal court on Monday again adjourned the proceedings in the third case against Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and senior executives. The court postponed the trial until April 18, granting a request by attorney-general Costas Clerides – who appeared personally – for an adjournment pending the outcome of an […]

The Larnaca municipality called on the public to avoid flying kites in areas in the vicinity of the airport on Green Monday, as this may pose dangers to flights. The areas where kite flying – a traditional Green Monday event – should be avoided are those of the Hala Sultan Tekke, the Larnaca Salt Lake, […]

Water levels in the reservoirs are at their highest level this decade, with the Asprokremmos dam in the Paphos region the latest to be poised to overflow. The latest reports say it is now 98.9 per cent filled to capacity, while island wide nearly 80 per cent of reservoirs, 77.1 to be precise, were filled […]

MPs are calling for the national beach safety plan, Salamis, which was launched last summer, to be enacted into law. Speaking at the House interior committee on Monday, MPs discussed the government’s failure to form a legislative framework to safeguard lifeguards, though noted that a bill is expected to be tabled before the House before […]

Crowds of mourning fans joined luminaries of English football for a final farewell on Monday to Gordon Banks, a steelworker’s son who became one of the world’s greatest goalkeepers and will be remembered for his miraculous save against Pele. Team mates from England’s 1966 World Cup win and members of former clubs Stoke City and […]

Keith Flint, the British musician who sang lead vocals for The Prodigy’s hits such as “Firestarter” and “Breathe”, has died aged 49, his bandmates said on Monday, saying the singer had taken his own life. Flint became one of the best known faces of 1990s British electronic music, performing apparently random dance moves often with […]

A team of British legal experts is on the island to take stock of an ongoing programme for reform in the justice system. Led by Lord John Dyson, the team met on Monday with the institutions committee of the supreme court. During their stay in Cyprus, the foreign experts will also be meeting with the […]

Britain’s royals unveiled a new protocol on Monday for users of their social media channels, asking for kindness and warning of possible police action following a rise in abusive comments, often aimed at Prince Harry’s pregnant wife Meghan. Abusive and even threatening remarks have become commonplace on the comment sections and Twitter feeds of the […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners have agreed a plan to strip some Germans who fight for the Islamic State militant group of their citizenship, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday. More than 1,000 Germans have left their country for war zones in the Middle East since 2013 and […]

Netflix’s black and white drama Roma has received a lot of buzz since first coming out. A foreign language film told through the eyes of a family maid Cleo and spoken in Spanish and in the indigenous language of Mixtec, it picked up three Oscars at the latest Academy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles. It […]

Primed for a life as a suit and tie man, Yiorgos Bellapaisiotis has worked with Alexander McQueen and seen his art presented at MoMa. THEO PANAYIDES meets a man who dived into the unknown to follow his passion to create The house is “pure 60s” as Yiorgos Bellapaisiotis puts it, a zig-zaggy concrete pancake set […]

The Limassol children’s carnival parade that was postponed due to heavy rainfall on Sunday will take place together with the grand carnival parade this coming Sunday instead, the municipality announced on Monday. The two parades will jointly set off from Archbishop Makarios Avenue in Limassol at 1pm. Floats and groups from the children’s parade which […]

The UAE embassy in Nicosia hosted a reception to honour the Cypriot special Olympics delegation, who will heading soon to Abu Dhabi to participate in the Special Olympics world games. The athletes will represent Cyprus in different sports like basketball, bowling, cycling, Artistic Gymnastic, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Athletics and swimming. The event will take place from […]

State medical staff who are members of the civil servants’ union Pasydy are taking measures as of Monday to protest against the state health service (Okypy)’s handling of the transition into the National Health Scheme (Gesy). They are dissatisfied with the way Okypy is handling important procedures such as the autonomisation of hospitals and the […]

Turkey’s intransigence is the reason there has been no solution to the Cyprus problem, President Anastasiades said in a speech to the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK in London on Sunday evening. “Sadly, Turkey’s intransigence did not allow the success of a solution that would show the Greek Cypriots it would be viable, […]

Any number of self-righteous people, from Spike “ref made a bad call” Lee to the edgier type of film critic, are treating Green Book’s Best Picture Oscar win with a disdain usually reserved for scraping something nasty off one’s shoe. There’s a strong temptation to fall into line, or (even stronger) to be a dissenting […]

Preliminary results for 2018, published by the Bank of Cyprus on Monday, showed a loss after tax of €104 million, which was a significant improvement on the previous year’s losses of €551.9 million. On the plus side, its capital position has been strengthened thanks to the agreement for the sale of €2.7bn of non-performing loans […]