Posts tagged with "Cyprus"

Giving in to the virtue-signalling mob leads to nothing good for a free society Opinion

Giving in to the virtue-signalling mob leads to nothing good for a free society

March 17th, 20191767 It was so disgusting and disturbing to watch everyone pile on Disy municipal councillor Georgios Lakkotrypis for his post on social media where he described Paphians as the “spawn of the Turks.” Though tactless, his comment was by no means racist. Let’s get our concepts straight: offensive does not equal racist. The two may...
Dangerous beasties invading Cyprus Cyprus

Dangerous beasties invading Cyprus

March 17th, 201918444 By land, sea and air invasive species are entering Cyprus causing biodiversity loss and possibly endangering health By Annette Chrysostomou Authorities have been warned that the latest dangerous invasive species about to descend on Cyprus is the Asian tiger mosquito, which is known to transmit harmful diseases like the Zika virus,...
British expats living in Brexit limbo Cyprus

British expats living in Brexit limbo

March 17th, 20194612 By Bejay Browne It’s been a bewildering week for British expats living in Cyprus, with Brexit Day – March 29 – just days away, while three massive votes in parliament took the lumbering process right to the wire. Last Tuesday, MPs rejected Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement for a second time. Wednesday saw MPs vote to...
More time for expats to sort out post-Brexit residency status Cyprus

More time for expats to sort out post-Brexit residency status

March 17th, 20193821 By Bejay Browne Cyprus is preparing legislation to allow Britons already living in Cyprus a grace period of one year to get their residency status sorted out after the official ‘Brexit Day’ on March 29, according to the British High Commission in Nicosia. ”We welcome the news that in case of a ‘no deal Brexit’ there...
Time to call it like it is Opinion

Time to call it like it is

March 17th, 20191541 Your columnist Alper Ali Riza puts the case for devolution of power for a settlement of the Cyprob. I do not see how he thinks this type of settlement suits our island. It's two communities have lived apart since 1963 and I don't believe there is sufficient will or trust between them for what he is  suggesting. Since 1983 when the...
Heavy rain accelerates slippage of doomed Tala development Cyprus

Heavy rain accelerates slippage of doomed Tala development

March 17th, 201911982 By Bejay Browne A stricken Tala building development located just above a busy road in Paphos is sliding down a hillside faster than ever following this winter’s heavy rainfall. Residents and local officials are concerned that the buildings could come crashing down onto the road below – the main access road in and out of...
Who’s the real target of politician’s arrest in north? Cyprus

Who’s the real target of politician’s arrest in north?

March 17th, 20193709 By Esra Aygin Arrest seen as a stark message to the Turkish Cypriots as well as Kurds living in northern Cyprus The Turkish Cypriot community was shocked and outraged earlier this week when a senior member of the ruling Republican Turkish Party CTP, was arrested along with her daughter for “membership in a terrorist...
Manhunt after man left critical in doorstep attack Crime

Manhunt after man left critical in doorstep attack

March 14th, 20191716 Police are looking for a 24-year-old man in connection with an attack on a Larnaca resident on Wednesday which left the victim in critical condition. According to police, the 60-year-old man opened the door of his home and was hit repeatedly on the head before his attacker left. He was transferred to Larnaca hospital where he was...
Cyprus bracing for a no-deal Brexit Cyprus

Cyprus bracing for a no-deal Brexit

March 13th, 20193802 Cyprus is intensifying preparations to cope with the potential fallout of a no-deal Brexit, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, a day after the British parliament rejected yet another proposal. Ministry spokesman Demetris Samuel said Cyprus fully respected Tuesday’s decision by the UK parliament, which was disappointing,...
Increasing signs of state and crony capitalism Guest Columnist

Increasing signs of state and crony capitalism

March 10th, 20194436 The political and business elite of Cyprus are stifling equitable growth By Les Manison In an article in the Sunday Mail of January 14, 2018, I argued that the Cyprus economic system exhibited many of the hallmarks of crony capitalism. That is, there was a nexus between the business class and the ruling political class in Cyprus...
Cyprus wants SBA development to start this year Cyprus

Cyprus wants SBA development to start this year

March 5th, 20193434 Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday discussed bilateral issued, including the development of particular areas inside the British bases on the island. The meeting on Tuesday morning was described as “preparatory” ahead of one later in the afternoon between Prime Minister Theresa May...
Celebration for Cyprus Cyprus

Celebration for Cyprus

March 5th, 20195470 President Nicos Anastasiades attended a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales on Monday evening to celebrate the ties between Cyprus and the UK, as well as the UK Cypriots’ contribution to British public life. Guests included more than 150 scientists, businessmen, artists, academics, professionals and...
Turkey set to begin oil and gas drilling off Cyprus Cyprus

Turkey set to begin oil and gas drilling off Cyprus

February 21st, 20195829 Turkey will begin drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus in coming days, state-owned news agency Anadolu reported Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu saying on Thursday. "In the coming days we will start drilling with two ships around Cyprus," Cavusoglu was quoted as saying in a speech to a business conference in western Turkey's Aydin...
France and Cyprus bring syndicated bonds in supercharged market (updated) Cyprus

France and Cyprus bring syndicated bonds in supercharged market (updated)

February 19th, 20192767 By Abhinav Ramnarayan and Virginia Furness France and Cyprus took full advantage of a market supercharged by expectations of more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank to print syndicated bonds on Tuesday. France had garnered a maximum of €33.5 billion of demand for a €7 billion 30-year bond sale, a lead manager told...
Exploring the intricacies of heritage Cyprus

Exploring the intricacies of heritage

February 17th, 20192557 Nicosia is part of a new project which seeks to explore the complex heritage of historic Mediterranean cities By Annette Chrysostomou Think about a work of art which changes over time and has been seen by many different viewers with preconceived ideas, has been interpreted by politicians to advance their interests, and has been...
Me and U: the latest brush with bureaucracy for the UK expats Guest Columnist

Me and U: the latest brush with bureaucracy for the UK expats

February 17th, 20193322 Expat View by Clive Turner I wonder if some government denizen can be encouraged to emerge from his or her eyrie to enlighten us thousands of simple British expats who have been encouraged to apply to exchange the MEU 1 for a MEU 3 residence slip as part of Brexit procedures? What is the essential difference? It all rather smacks...
Baffling use of police emergency lights Opinion

Baffling use of police emergency lights

February 17th, 20192760 I am a retired police sergeant from Ireland, and I spend a lot of my time here in Cyprus. I am currently living in Oroklini but I previously lived in Dherynia in 2014 while I was serving here with the United Nations. I have noticed that police cars and ambulances always keep their blue lights flashing and I was told, that this is to...
Dear Irish Friends in Cyprus Opinion

Dear Irish Friends in Cyprus

February 17th, 20193722 Dear Irish Friends in Cyprus, We have started the process of forming the Cyprus Ireland Association to promote Irish culture, friendship and networking in Cyprus. We have drafted a constitution to comply with the new 2017 legislation for associations which is currently with the lawyer for approval. A minimum of 20 ‘founding...
The pivotal point Opinion

The pivotal point

February 17th, 20193058 By Christos P. Panayiotides SLOWLY, with notable difficulty, it has emerged that the pivotal point of a mutually-agreed solution of the Cyprus problem revolves around the practical implementation of the concept of “political equality” between the two communities. The position taken by the Turkish Cypriots is abundantly clear....
The elephant in the room: the hard border across Cyprus Opinion

The elephant in the room: the hard border across Cyprus

February 17th, 20197754 By Alper Ali Riza Unlike Northern Ireland there is a hard border in Cyprus complete with barbed wire, minefields and soldiers. Worse still it is perpetuated by an EU protocol that defines it as an EU external border even though it is not an international border. So the words of Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council,...
US still seeking extradition of teen hacker Cyprus

US still seeking extradition of teen hacker

February 17th, 20193217 Held at the central prisons for well over a year and a half, 20-year-old Joshua Epiphaniou is the first Cypriot citizen to be put on trial for extradition to the United States, where he is wanted by the FBI on suspicion of extorting almost $60,000 through hacking offences committed while still a minor. The ongoing extradition hearing,...
The English School: from colonial clerks to the ruling elite Cyprus

The English School: from colonial clerks to the ruling elite

January 20th, 20195003 By Annette Chrysostomou A new book sheds light on how Cyprus’ most famous fee-paying school, the English School, developed from its establishment in 1900 to the end of British rule in 1960. Aptly, it was researched and written by a man who was not only an ‘old boy’ but lived at the school’s boarding house for four years,...
The composer who hears a symphony in everyday sounds Cyprus

The composer who hears a symphony in everyday sounds

January 20th, 20192050 Unconventional Paphos-born composer has won awards for his monumental compositions By Bejay Browne The tak, tak of water dripping into a bucket from a leaking roof, the whoosh of steam from a coffee machine in a busy cafe should hardly count as music to the ear. But for Marios Joannou Elia, such sounds can become a...
Urgent need to reform Cyprus tax policy Opinion

Urgent need to reform Cyprus tax policy

January 20th, 20193883 By Les Manison A former finance ministry advisor writes an open letter to Finance Minister Harris Georgiades on the need to reform tax collection and payments so that public services can be improved Dear Minister of Finance, Harris Georgiades, The need to provide high quality public services, a characteristic of an advanced...
An incredibly dangerous precedent Opinion

An incredibly dangerous precedent

January 20th, 20192127 The fine levied on the unnamed woman for calling people who adopted Asian children Idiots is an incredibly dangerous precedent. Free speech is the voicing of one’s opinions and if the PC brigade get away with this, we are even further down Orwell’s road to 1984. The American constitution enshrines freedom of speech, thus Americans...
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