By Annette Chrysostomou The British Council has launched a new service, a digital library, as part of its 80th anniversary celebrations. “We are bringing back the library, however in a digital form,” director of the British Council in Cyprus Angela Hennelly said on Monday. The organisation’s extensive physical library closed...
By John Kennedy Panagia mou! If I hear another leaf blowing machine at 7am someone is going to hospital. Never in the evolution of horticultural processing has innovation been more unwelcome than this. Morning calm and tranquillity shattered by a bone-idle dolt disinterested in the disruption he’s causing to the...
Main opposition Akel said Sunday the election of Ersin Tatar’ as the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community was “a negative development”, given his position on the Cyprus problem. “Nonetheless, in view of the fact that the UN Secretary-General has repeatedly reiterated his intention to undertake efforts to revive the...
Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ersin Tatar ousted his rival, incumbent Mustafa Akinci with 51.74 per cent of the vote to 48.26 per cent in the Turkish Cypriot ‘presidential’ elections on Sunday, press reports from the north said. By 7.45pm Tatar’s supporters were already congratulating him on his election as ‘president’....
Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ersin Tatar ousted his rival, incumbent Mustafa Akinci with 51.74 per cent of the vote to 48.26 per cent in the Turkish Cypriot ‘presidential; elections on Sunday, press reports from the north said, according to unofficial results. By 7.45pm Tatar’s supporters were already congratulating him on...
The health ministry on Sunday announced 63 new cases. Around one third of cases were contacts of people already tested positive to the virus. In total 3,688 lab tests were carried out during the past 24 hours. One third of these lab tests concerned tests given to passengers at the...
By Gwynne Dyer After eight full months of the global pandemic, the pressure to keep the economies open and let the chips (or rather, the elderly) fall where they may is growing strong. The ‘Great Barrington Declaration’ of October 4 was signed by three medical professors from Oxford, Harvard and...
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Polling stations in the north closed at 6pm on Sunday while the counting of votes for the second round of the election for the new Turkish Cypriot leader has begun. Official announcement of results is expected to start at 7pm, reports said in the north, though some papers are already...
Egyptian grandfather Ezzeldin Bahader has been recognised as the world’s oldest professional soccer player after completing a second full match just short of his 75th birthday. Bahader was awarded the title by Guinness World Records on Saturday evening after missing a penalty kick as his team, 6th October, lost 3-2...
Dispute rages over how important the citizenship scheme was to Cyprus while the government has already hinted of a different scheme, as called for by business groups Questions have been raised about the importance of the citizenship by investment (CBI) scheme to the economy a few days after the government’s announcement...
Covid-19 has caused more disruption to the energy sector than any other event in recent history By Charles Ellinas The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its World Energy Outlook 2020 last week. Its executive director Dr Fatih Birol aptly described the challenges in his introduction to the Outlook: “This has...
A primary school in Limassol and a special school on Paphos will remain closed for a few days after coronavirus cases have been detected among staff and pupils, the education ministry said on Sunday. According to the ministry, a number of cases has been detected among teaching and other staff...
Are Lindsay+Mario and Marga +Walter still together? By Evie Andreou A loving couple writing their names in wet cement, like carving them on a tree trunk, is an irresistible stab at romantic permanence the world over, but in frozen-in-time Varosha it has a special resonance. ‘Eric-Inga 1973’, ‘Anna und Ulrik’,...
University of Cyprus (UCy) said on Sunday it was moving courses, other than lab work, entirely online from Monday following the huge spike in Covid-19 cases. In a post on its social media platforms, UCy said: “@UCYOfficial continues its responsible attitude towards its university community and society. The difficulty tracking...
Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to generate sales in a coronavirus-proof environment. Costes owner Karoly Gerendai said that turnover at one of his reopened restaurants is down to about...
Nasser Al Attiyah cruised home for his 7th win in the Cyprus Rally on Sunday, making use of his vast experience and easing off the throttle, secure in the knowledge that – barring a major mishap – he couldn’t be caught by the chasing pack. Having started the day with...
The reopening of parts of Varosha to visitors has raised the most painful ‘what if’ question for refugees By Evie Andreou Varosha refugee Christos Fysentzou made the decision 16 years ago, the year of the referendum, that he would return home even if his 46-year-old ghost town was under Turkish...
Ireland will bring in “decisive” nationwide COVID-19 restrictions on Monday but will stop short of reintroducing the kind of lockdown imposed earlier this year, Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said on Sunday. The government rejected a recommendation by health chiefs two weeks ago to jump Level 5, the highest level...
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Clarke Cooper is travelling to Cyprus on a working visit on Monday and will hold talks with Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides and Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides. CNA has learned that the talks will cover US-Cyprus cooperation in the security sector. The two ministers...
Everything but the peace process has a new lease of life By Serkan Birgel “I understand your desire for disruptive politics,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “But I’m tired of picking up the pieces. Over and over, I have to glue together the cups you have broken so that we can...
Israel will require incoming travellers from the United Kingdom to self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival under new coronavirus guidelines, information on an Israeli government website showed on Sunday. The infection rate in the UK has risen sharply in recent weeks, prompting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to introduce tighter...
Greece’s recession-hit economy could shrink at a rate close to 10 per cent — the central bank’s worst-case scenario — if the coronavirus pandemic deepens, the head of the Bank of Greece said on Saturday. The central bank has forecast the economy to contract by 7.5 per cent this year...
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Sunday of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after it was agreed. The truce agreed on Saturday came into force at midnight (2000 GMT) after a week-old Russian-brokered ceasefire failed to halt the worst fighting...
