Новости за 28.05.2019

The auditor-general has called ‘scandalous’ a prior government decision to swap state land with a parcel of private land, pointing out that the state got a raw deal. In 2005 a developer purchased private land in Ayios Athanasios, Limassol, for the purpose of building seven building blocks with 78 apartments....

The lifting of the restrictions imposed by Turkey on Cypriot-flagged ships would result in a win-win situation, Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Esben Poulsson said on Tuesday. Poulsson is on the island to attend the annual meeting of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) which will mark its...

President Nicos Anastasiades is expected to appoint lawyer Giorgos Savvides as the new Justice Minister, reports said on Tuesday. According to the daily Politis, Savvides, a lawyer from Famagusta who now lives in Limassol, is to replace outgoing Ionas Nicolaou who resigned following mounting pressure over the way the police...

A Turkish Cypriot politician on Tuesday said Akel was more dangerous than far-right Elam since it applies the same policies as Makarios and Tassos Papadopoulos. ‘Deputy House speaker’ Zorlu Tore said that Akel, which got a Turkish Cypriot elected in the European Parliament is targeting Turkish Cypriots through osmosis. According...

The US naval ship Yuma has been docked at Limassol port since Saturday waiting to participate in the international search and rescue exercise Argonaut 2019. The vessel is to participate in the exercise on Wednesday and Thursday. Lieutenant Greg Jonic told reporters that the Yuma is permanently manned by 26...

Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic became the first man in his 40s to compete in a Grand Slam singles match for 27 years when he beat fellow veteran Feliciano Lopez at Roland Garros on Tuesday. Karlovic, who turned 40 in February, won 7-6(4) 7-5 6-7(7) 7-5 against the 37-year-old Spaniard in the...

Naomi Osaka survived a major scare to beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova and continue her winning grand slam run in the opening round of the French Open. The 21-year-old from Japan won both the US Open and Australian Open titles to climb to the top of the world rankings and had...

A 39-year-old mother of four young children was fined €10,000 by a court in Larnaca on Tuesday after she apparently got drunk and left her newborn child unattended for hours and exposed to the cold. The court censured the mother who in different circumstances would have faced a custodial sentence....

By Megan Rowling Subsidies that promote the use of fossil fuels are helping “to destroy the world”, and are a bad way to deploy taxpayers’ money, the head of the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a gathering of politicians and business people in Austria that...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced she is quitting, triggering a contest that will bring a new leader to power, with most of the frontrunners expected to push for a cleaner break with the European Union. Below are some of the Conservatives who have said they are running and...

A preliminary list of over 1,000 pharmaceutical products that will stock Gesy pharmacies was released on Tuesday. With just a few more days to go until the launch of the first phase of the national health scheme on Saturday, a preliminary list has been issued detailing the 1,009 pharmaceutical products...

By Elena Rodriguez Madrid will deploy a record number of police and security personnel for Saturday’s all-English Champions League final, barring trucks and using drones to counter a high threat of terror and prevent any fan trouble, officials said on Tuesday. Madrid authorities expect around 67,800 fans to attend the...

The met office has issued a yellow warning for extremely high temperatures on Wednesday, when it is expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius inland. The yellow warning covers the period between 11am and 4pm. The met office called on members of the public to keep themselves informed of the expected...

Authorities are working to repair damage to the sewerage system in Lakatamia, Nicosia, while the seepage of human waste into the Pedieos river has made life unbearable for local residents. Locals have complained of the foul smell and proliferation of mosquitoes since last Friday, when sewage was spotted in the...

The island’s largest and most important contemporary dance event returns to the Rialto Theatre this June, where contemporary dance aficionados will have the opportunity to discover and admire exceptional dance performances from eight different countries, reflecting contemporary dance trends, schools and movements, thus building bridges between the local and the...

I would rather have no consideration of the gender of the politician and have him/her have a progressive perspective, rather than have female MPs who are nationalists, racists, populist, religious minded and conservative. The assumption that an increased ratio of women in politics is necessarily a good thing for women...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Indiana’s Republican-backed requirement that fetal remains be buried or cremated, dealing a setback to abortion provider Planned Parenthood, which had challenged the provision. The unsigned ruling, with two of the court’s liberals dissenting, said an appeals court was wrong to conclude that the...

Alexander Zverev was made to work hard to reach the second round of the French Open with a 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 2-6 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 win over Australian John Millman on Tuesday. The German fifth seed, looking for a major breakthrough on the Grand Slam stage, needed more than four...

A police officer investigating a fatal hit and run in Paphos last year was told by a passenger in the suspect’s car that he had run over two British men deliberately, the Paphos criminal court heard on Tuesday. The authorities have a charged a 35-year-old Georgian man with manslaughter in...

President Nicos Anastasiadis on Tuesday debriefed European Council President Donald Tusk on the recent drilling activities by Turkey within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus, during a scheduled meeting ahead of the EU28 leaders meeting in Brussels. According to Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou, Anastasiades “informed Donald Tusk about Turkey’s ongoing...

In one of the leading DJs on the island playing foreign tunes, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man interested in what is ‘hot, fresh and trendy’ but also with a love of structure and a sound business mind I live alone, but it sometimes feels like I live with Alex James....

Many Arsenal and Chelsea fans have been put off making the long and expensive trip to Azerbaijan to follow their teams in the Europa League final, but one father and his son have just completed an adventurous seven-day voyage to make it to Baku. Jake Ralph and his father Kevin...

North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country where corruption is “endemic” and repression rife, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday in a report that Pyongyang dismissed as politically motivated. The report said officials extorted money from a population struggling to make...

Peace loving Cypriots welcome the election of professor Niyazi Kizilyurek and regard his election as a positive contribution for our two communities to build further cooperation. Cyprus is the only country of the EU whose citizens have to show travel documents to cross roadblocks in order to cast their vote....

Human remains were unearthed on Tuesday by the committee on missing persons (CMP) in the village of Engomi in north Famagusta, raising the number of missing persons found this year to 19. The remains, which were retrieved by the CMP’s bi-communal excavation team, belong to one person, the committee said....