Новости за 31.05.2020

Police on Sunday were investigating what appeared to be a murder after two dead bodies were found in an apartment at old town Nicosia. According to Demetris Demetriou, deputy chief of operations, police received a call at 6pm that there were loud shouts from a flat in Pericleous street. Upon...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab defended on Sunday the government’s “careful” loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, saying it was the “right step to be taking at this moment in time”. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire from some scientists for easing a lockdown put in place 10 weeks...

Images of the area are widely used to promote Paphos but this creates a false impression locals claim   The mayor of Polis Chrysochous district aims to create a separate tourist board to look after the interests of the area, claiming that the government has sidelined them for too long....

The government needs to ensure enough vaccinations are available for children as it aims to move into the second phase of the national health system (Gesy), the paediatric society of Cyprus (Pek) said on Sunday. In an open letter to Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou, Pek outlined there are shortages where...

Cypriot Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides says ‘never again’ to lack of preparedness   THE European Commission, building on the lessons learned from the Covid-19 crisis, has proposed “an ambitious and dedicated” funding programme of  €9.4bn for the next seven years that is 23 times larger than the current one...

The health ministry on Sunday announced one new case of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 944. The confirmed case is a high school student and was found through 819 sample tests at schools. A total of 1,717 tests were carried out across the country. As the case concerns a...

An elderly woman aged 87 has been reported as missing from her Nicosia home since Sunday morning, police said. Elli Michaelidou has been described as very slim, about 1.50m tall, with short, dirty blonde hair. She has been missing from her home in Lykavitos, Nicosia since Sunday 8:30am. Anyone with...

Pope Francis said on Sunday that people are more important than the economy, as countries decide how quickly to reopen their countries from coronavirus lockdowns. Francis made his comments, departing from a prepared script, at the first noon address from his window overlooking St. Peter’s Square in three months as...

By Nicholas Karides On Friday July 12, 1985 President Ronald Reagan was due to have a polyp removed at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. That afternoon First Lady Nancy Reagan called the president’s Chief of Staff Don Regan to inform him that the operation might be delayed for a day...

Spain’s prime minister said on Sunday he will ask parliament to agree to a last two-week extension of the state of emergency lockdown until 21st June, after which the government will no longer restrict citizens’ movements, newspaper El Pais reported. Pedro Sanchez told regional government leaders during a video-conference meeting...

A 45-year-old woman was remanded for five days on Sunday at Limassol district court in connection to an investigation into 72 kilos of cannabis which were found in a Zakaki warehouse. The woman was arrested on Saturday after a witness statement was secured against her. She is the fourth person...

It is readily apparent that the strategy followed on the Cyprus problem has turned the issue into a headache for the international community   The need to revise our national strategy on the Cyprus Problem is pressing, due to the following reasons: Seventy years of continuous efforts to settle the...

Gradually reopening the checkpoints would be a logical step forward from a scientific viewpoint, one of the health ministry’s advisors on the coronavirus said on Sunday. On Monday, five members of the team are set to have a teleconference with the bicommunal technical committee on health. They are set to...

The onslaught of lockdown and a pandemic led many people to catastrophise. Gina Agapiou speaks to those who supported their mental health   Despo persuaded her husband to do the grocery shopping and remained at home herself throughout the whole two months of lockdown with their two kids. Before the...

A shark seen in a video off the coast of Limassol is likely to be a shortfin mako shark, the fisheries department said. A video circulating social media on Saturday showed a shark attacking a turtle in the waters. The video was posted by an amateur fisherman who said he...

Looking at data in hindsight could offer an insight into what to do next time FROM Naples to New York, and from Greece to Iceland, there’s mounting evidence that sheltering in place may not have done much to slow the spread of Covid-19 after all. Now, a Cypriot epidemiologist tracking...

Parliament is gradually returning to a sense of normalcy this week, as a series of house committees are set to convene, maintaining social distancing. Sessions however will not be carried out in the parliament building but at the Filoxenia conference centre as it is larger and can accommodate deputies while...

Ten premises were booked for not adhering to coronavirus measures, police said on Sunday, as inspections continue to be carried out across Cyprus. According to a police announcement, 1,787 checks were carried out in all cities and found 10 businesses were violating measures decreed by the government aimed at curbing...

Human beings respond well to a crisis that is familiar, especially if it is also imminent. They don’t do nearly as well when the threat is unfamiliar and still apparently quite distant. Consider our response to the current coronavirus threat. Countries in East Asia with recent experience of similar viruses...

A 26-year-old man was remanded for four days at Paphos district court on Sunday in connection to a series of break-ins and thefts. According to police, the man was arrested on Saturday after a witness statement was secured against him pointing to an ongoing investigation over three break-ins between May...

Athletes belonging to the Cyprus Olympic Committee have been returning to training since the first week of May. This ends a two-month period of downtime resulting from the lockdown rules enacted by the government following the coronavirus outbreak. Cyprus Olympic Committee athletes, as well as athletes that fall under the...

Without the lifeline offered by tourists and Greek Cypriots traders in the centre of north Nicosia say they can hardly scrape by as they preside over empty streets   With zero new cases of Covid-19 for just over a month in the north and a steady and reassuring decline in...

THE SECOND phase of the national health scheme Gesy is set to begin, as scheduled, on June 1, health minister Constantinou Ioannou’s calculation that the majority of private hospitals and clinics would join before the deadline proving correct. What was more surprising was that 42 private healthcare providers that were...

IT WAS BACK briefly on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, but, sadly it did not last. I refer to our dear Kypriako (Cyprob), which had been consigned to oblivion by the coronavirus, since early February and had not been heard of again until Tuesday night, when the state broadcaster attempted...

Under English law there is one law for rulers and another law for subjects. The ‘comings and goings’ of Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s alter ego, are fading fast but the issue they raise remains of great concern to many people. It is whether there is one law for rulers and...