Nea Salamnia defeated Enosis Neon Paralimniou by 2-0 and won their first points of the season while Paralimni remain rooted at the bottom of the table after three consecutive defeats. It was a rather easy win for Salamina who dominated play from the beginning even though they had to wait...
Everton ended a miserable run of form against Tottenham Hotspur as Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s second-half header earned them a 1-0 away victory in their Premier League opener on Sunday. Carlo Ancelotti gave debuts to three new signings including Colombian James Rodriguez but it was Sheffield-born Calvert-Lewin who gave Everton a dream...
By Edward Hadas Policymakers want to heal the economic wounds caused by Covid-19. Unfortunately, they are driving without headlights on an unfamiliar road. The confusion starts with public health. It would be useful, to say the least, if politicians, central bankers, business leaders, financiers and other big decision makers knew what...
At least 100,000 Belarusian protesters took to the streets of Minsk on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations yet against President Alexander Lukashenko after he claimed a landslide victory in an election his opponents say was rigged. As public anger continued to build against Lukashenko, who has ruled the former...
Turkey will send a second drill ship to operate in the Black Sea, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Sunday, weeks after Ankara announced its largest ever natural gas discovery in the area. “Our drill ship Kanuni, whose preparation work is continuing, will start drilling in the Black Sea,” he...
A 1.5 million euro investment by the government at four archaeological sites in Polis will help to protect them and make the area accessible to visitors, according to the local mayor. “Forty years ago the University of Bristol excavated an area in Polis and uncovered a number of finds, but...
The health ministry announced three new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday from 2,810 tests. One was a passenger identified through airport testing on 1,560 people. The other two positives came through contact tracing from previously confirmed cases. The first case concerns a Russian woman who arrived in Cyprus on Friday...
Greece will build a permanent migrant reception centre on Lesbos to replace the overcrowded refugee camp destroyed by a fire last week, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday, calling for closer European involvement. The fire at the Moria reception centre last week left more than 12,000 people without...
Cyprus on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the results of the talks it had on Saturday with US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who paid a fleeting visit to the island. In statements to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) , Foreign Minister, Nikos Christodoulides said that during his talks with President...
British and European Union negotiators are likely to have a few weeks to avoid a breakdown of trade talks, but that window will close if a contentious British bill becomes law, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Sunday. British lawmakers will on Monday begin debating the Internal Markets Bill,...
Cyprus has found itself in the middle of the US-Russia animus By Kyriacos Iacovides NEVER before have the foreign ministers of Russia and the United States visited Cyprus within four days of each other, even though Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s arrival was arranged at the last minute. On Tuesday,...
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was sentenced on Sunday to nine months’ community service and her mother was ordered jailed for 16 months for tax evasion on earnings from her international career. The former Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model, now a popular TV personality in Israel, had pleaded guilty to tax...
Moves to speed up deporting failed asylum seekers are fraught with legal hurdles By Elias Hazou On the Friday before last, parliament voted to amend the constitution, empowering lawmakers from now on to decide the deadline for challenging administrative decisions, a move tailor-made to drastically cut the time for appealing...
Greek Cypriot political parties on Sunday welcomed the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday night, some more enthusiastically than others. Main opposition communist Akel said Pompeo’s statements did not add anything new about the US positions with regards to the region. “The dangerous situation in the...
The Larnaca district court on Sunday remanded a 43-year-old man for eight days on suspicion of abducting and raping a 24-year-old woman from an eastern European country. According to police investigators, the assault happened on Saturday in the Mackenzie area of Larnaca when the woman was trying to get to...
The ministers of labour and finance will on Monday brief the House finance committee on the state of the economy and the challenges ahead, as well as on the state support schemes that aim to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. The meeting will also be attended by the central...
Police said on Sunday they would be launching a two-week road safety campaign focused on clamping down on motorists using mobile phones or engaged in other activities such as eating while driving. The two-week campaign starts Monday and is due to end on Sunday, September 27. “Using a mobile phone...
Aftermath of the visit of the Russian foreign minister By Christos Panayiotides In the course of his recent visit to Cyprus, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, stressed that his country is ready to contribute to the development of a genuine dialogue aiming at the resolution of the Cyprus problem....
A deal establishing relations between Israel and Bahrain will result in direct flights between the countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. “There will be brisk and direct air traffic between the countries,” he said in remarks to the Israeli cabinet, a transcript of which was issued by...
By Dimis Michaelides Imagine you are implementing a transformation programme in your organisation. You have it all spelt out with the fashionable jargon of our times. A new vision for a new business model which came from heaps of out-of-the-box design thinking. With entirely customer-centric systems using state-of-the-art digital technology...
The government ministers with the highest approval ratings, according to a poll published on Sunday are Constantinos Ioannou minster of health, labour’s Zeta Emilianidou and finance Constantinos Petrides. The lowest approval rating went to Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou, according to the poll conducted by RetailZoom at the beginning of September...
