Новости за 02.07.2020

Police on Thursday arrested the father of a 49-year-old accountant in Limassol, who is suspected of stealing tens of thousands of euros from her company and being behind millions of euros in fraudulent money transfers through forged cheques. The father, aged 73, is the third person to be detained in...

Police are asking the public’s assistance in locating a 30-year-old man who has been missing from his Limassol home since June 23. Stavros Taliotis, aged 30, is understood to have travelled to Larnaca airport on June 23, to board a flight to a European destination. He is described as approximately...

Police are looking for Loucas Sirpas, a 14-year-old who has gone missing from his home in Aglandjia since Thursday morning. Sirpas is described as about 1.67m tall, thin, short auburn hair and green eyes. Anyone with information that can help find him should call the Citizen’s Hotline at 1460, contact...

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The European Union must be decisive over Turkish provocations in the eastern Mediterranean, President Nicos Anastasiades conveyed to European Council President Charles Michel on Thursday. According to a statement by government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos, Anastasiades held a teleconferencing meeting with Michel, where they also discussed the EU Multiannual Financial Framework...

The Tungsten Explorer drillship anchored off the port of Larnaca on Thursday. Reports said the vessel will be laid up off Cyprus for the next few months, reversing prior plans to head out to Trinidad after completing drilling offshore Lebanon. It is the same vessel which ENI and Total had...

BBC traveled to the heart of the Great Pyramid of Giza – the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World. Built over four and a half thousand years ago, the pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu. You can pass through the solid stone blocks that make up the...

The next electricity bills will be almost 15 per cent lower for the average consumer, the state power utility has said. Speaking to Economy Today, Christina Papadopoulou, spokesperson for the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, said the next invoices to households should be 14.7 per cent lower that the last. This...

Police are investigating the theft of two crosses from a cemetery in the village of Avgorou, an incident that has upset the local community. The bronze crosses were removed from the graves of Panagis Zacharia and Loukia Papageorgiou Laoutaria, celebrated as heroes of the 1955-1959 uprising against British colonial rule....

Two coronavirus cases were announced on Thursday by Turkish Cypriot authorities, while another person tested positive on Wednesday after arriving from Turkey by ferry. ‘Health minister’ Ali Pilli announced on Thursday afternoon that in total three news cases were detected since Wednesday. This brings the total of cases in the...

Entelea is an experimental project based on the Eastern Mediterranean music having its own unique style and approach. Three renowned musicians Zacharias Spyridakis, Giannis Koutis and Gabriel Karapatakis, fully conscious of their (aesthetic) limits, know exactly what they want to present. Their skills, knowledge and experience correspond to structures that...

By Evie Andreou and Bejay Browne With the exclusion by the EU of Russia, Lebanon and Israel from the list of safe countries for travel, the month of July will also be a washout for tourism, Deputy Minister Savvas Perdios said on Thursday. The minister was in Paphos where he...

Cypriot athletes have begun their preparations for next year’s rearranged Tokyo Olympics, Cyprus Olympic Committee president Dinos Michaelides said during an online meeting hosted by the executive committee of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (ICMG) this week. As president of the Cyprus Olympic Committee, Michaelides is also a member...

The UK has set down its rules for overseas students with fees increasing significantly and removing the EU student loan ‘facility’ as of the 2021-22 academic year. The Cyprus education ministry is claiming that it is unfair for those male students who have secured a place at a UK uni...

The U.S. economy created a record 4.8 million jobs in June as more restaurants and bars resumed operations, but layoffs remained elevated and raging COVID-19 cases across the country threaten the fledgling recovery. The flare-up in coronavirus infections, which started in late June, was not captured in the Labor Department’s...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and longtime associate of the late accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in New Hampshire on Thursday on U.S. charges of helping to lure underage girls who were then sexually abused by Epstein. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Maxwell about 8:30 a.m. ET...

Cyprus international footballer Fanos Katelaris refused to play for Hungarian club Zalaegerszegi TE after his own fans racially abused coloured players from opposition side Fehervar FC during a top-tier league match on Monday, it has emerged. During the game, defensive midfielder Katelaris, on loan from Omonia Nicosia until the end...

Pafilia and Minthis are proud to launch a new collection of Residence designs called Topos. The Minthis Property Collection consists of three product types, Residences, Villas and Suites, each with a range of design styles. With over 200 properties on the resort already sold and delivered, Topos further enriches the...

No new coronavirus cases were detected on Thursday, the health ministry announced. In total, 1,019 tests were carried out during the last 24 hours but there were no positive cases. This means that the total number of cases so far remains at 999. Just one patient with Covid-19 is currently...

Police on Thursday said they were upping measures after the recent spate of arson attacks on telephone masts, the latest three just this week. Most of the attacks were in Limassol. After two phone masts and a telecommunications installation were set on fire on Wednesday in Palodia, Limassol, police held...

The US Ambassador to Cyprus Judith G. Garber said on Thursday that the solid management of the novel coronavirus crisis in Cyprus by the government has brought it considerable recognition. “This has been good for Cyprus’s reputation as a competent global partner, and as a very good base for regional...

The former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd will likely seek to relocate their trials in hopes of finding sympathetic jurors, but legal experts said doing so could reinforce claims of systemic racism in the justice system. While trials are rarely moved in Minnesota, legal experts said the Floyd cases...

On a weekly basis we have an average of 2 to 3 articles in CM related to road behaviour in Cyprus. It is high time that the new chief of police gets his act together to at least seriously reduce traffic infringements. We need a much greater physical “presence” of...

The auditor-general said Thursday procedures to construct an intensive care unit during the coronavirus crisis had violated legislation on public contracts while the board of the state public health organisation (Okypy) may have been misled. Presenting a preliminary report before the House watchdog committee, the Odysseas Michaelides said it expected...

Carlsberg is celebrating the most gratifying moment for Liverpool fans with a limited-edition can ‘dressed’ in red. There is a celebratory reason why our favourite beer is released in red, with the Reds winning their first league title in 30 years this season. Carlsberg is sharing this unique moment with...