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P&O confirms UK ships will get Cyprus flag ahead of Brexit Cyprus

P&O confirms UK ships will get Cyprus flag ahead of Brexit

January 22nd, 2019 British ferry and shipping freight operator P&O will shift the registration of its UK vessels to Cyprus ahead of Britain’s departure from the European Union, in part to keep its tax arrangements in the bloc, the company confirmed on Tuesday. P&O currently has six UK-registered ships operating on the English Channel route to...
Athienou wedding sweet makes it to Unesco heritage list Cyprus

Athienou wedding sweet makes it to Unesco heritage list

January 22nd, 2019 By Evie Andreou Athienou Mayor, Kyriacos Kareklas on Tuesday congratulated the producers of the local loukoumi, a traditional sweet given at weddings, for their high standards and for seeing their product registered on the Unesco National Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The renowned Athienou loukoumi, is a very popular sweet...
Hospitals overwhelmed by flu patients Cyprus

Hospitals overwhelmed by flu patients

January 22nd, 2019 People suffering from the flu are flooding public hospitals and affecting their smooth operation, the head of the state doctors’ union, Pasyki, said on Tuesday. “We have cases of flu, fevers, respiratory infections; the situation is especially difficult and we are trying to cope,” Sotiris Koumas said. He added that flu...
Gatwick drone disruption cost easyJet nearly $20 mln World

Gatwick drone disruption cost easyJet nearly $20 mln

January 22nd, 2019 By Alistair Smout LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - EasyJet lost 15 million pounds ($19.3 million) in the 36 hours of travel chaos sparked by drones flying into London's Gatwick Airport in December, the budget airline said on Tuesday. The British company, the largest operator at Britain's second biggest airport, said the disruption...
Interview: Turning enmity into an unmatched friendship Cyprus

Interview: Turning enmity into an unmatched friendship

January 22nd, 2019 Today marks 56 years since the signing of the Élysée Treaty between France and Germany. The ambassadors of two countries talk to the Cyprus Mail about what it meant for Europe By Esra Aygin "MY HEART is overflowing, and my soul is grateful," said French President Charles de Gaulle in fluent German after he and German Chancellor...
Our View: It suits president’s plan to suddenly honour Makarios Our View

Our View: It suits president’s plan to suddenly honour Makarios

January 22nd, 2019 IT WAS surprising to see President Anastasiades as the guest of honour and speaker at an “event in memory and honour of Archbishop Makarios III”. Politically he had never been a supporter of Makarios and in the past avoided taking part in such events, the sole purpose of which is to maintain the myths about the greatness of the first...
May tries to tweak defeated plan, refuses to rule out no-deal Brexit

May tries to tweak defeated plan, refuses to rule out no-deal

January 21st, 2019   By Kylie MacLellan, William James and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit on Monday by proposing to seek further concessions from the European Union on a plan to prevent customs checks on the Irish border. With little time left until the United...
Flu season at its peak health officials warn Health

Flu season at its peak health officials warn

January 21st, 2019 Health authorities on Monday urged the public to take precautions as the flu season is now at its peak. The flu season started the last two weeks of December, some two weeks earlier than usual, and has spread rapidly. According to the Head of the Infectious Disease Surveillance Unit of the health ministry, Maria Koliou, the most...
Spanish toddler rescue effort reaches most dangerous stage Europe

Spanish toddler rescue effort reaches most dangerous stage

January 21st, 2019 Efforts to reach a two-year-old boy who fell into a borehole in southern Spain more than a week ago are nearing their most dangerous stage, an engineer on the rescue team said on Monday. The toddler, Julen, fell down the shaft as his family walked through a private estate in Totalan, Malaga on Jan. 13. There have been no signs of life...
IMF cuts global growth outlook, cites weak Europe Europe

IMF cuts global growth outlook, cites weak Europe

January 21st, 2019 The International Monetary Fund on Monday cut its world economic growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020, due to weakness in Europe and some emerging markets, and said failure to resolve trade tensions could further destabilise a slowing global economy. In its second downgrade in three months, the global lender also cited a...
UK conservation funds for Akrotiri salt lake Cyprus

UK conservation funds for Akrotiri salt lake

January 21st, 2019 The Akrotiri salt lake, which is part of the British bases, is to receive a share from a total of £3.75m (€4.25m) in funding from the UK government as part of its commitment to conservation projects in overseas territories, it was announced on Monday. The environment fund is administered by Darwin Plus, which said in an...
Flamingos arrive at Oroklini Lake (Video) Cyprus

Flamingos arrive at Oroklini Lake (Video)

January 21st, 2019 The flamingos have arrived at Oroklini Lake in the Larnaca District. From the observatory, visitors can watch the majestic creatures feeding in the lake among ducks and other local birds, while others fly overhead. Oroklini Lake is one of seven natural wetlands in Cyprus and it is located about 10km east of Larnaca. (CNA) ...
Film review: Glass * Film Review

Film review: Glass *

January 21st, 2019 By Preston Wilder An article in The Guardian last week claimed 1999 as “the greatest year in modern cinema”, citing The Sixth Sense among the evidence to support that claim. M. Night Shyamalan was briefly touted as ‘the next Spielberg’ in the wake of that success – but exactly 20 years later he’s something of a minor cult...
Police issued more than 1,400 fines in a week for illegal parking Cyprus

Police issued more than 1,400 fines in a week for illegal parking

January 21st, 2019 Police issued more than 1,400 fines for illegal parking during the past week to drivers who were found on spots reserved for the disabled, and on sidewalks. During a campaign aiming to sensitise drivers on the impact of their carelessness to the disabled, police issued 1,471 fines; 310 concerned parking on spots reserved for the...
Exhibition takes visitors back 4,000 million years What's On

Exhibition takes visitors back 4,000 million years

January 21st, 2019 The Dunkleosteus. The Basilosaurus. And the Ophthalmosaurus. We swear we’re not making these up (even the last one, which smacks of the old joke: What do you call a dinosaur with one eye? Doyouthinkhesaurus). They are all, in fact, genuine dinosaurs. But the reason you probably haven’t heard of them – instead spending your primary...
The English School: from colonial clerks to the ruling elite Cyprus

The English School: from colonial clerks to the ruling elite

January 20th, 2019 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,...
Europe: Déjà Vu? Opinion

Europe: Déjà Vu?

January 20th, 2019 By Desmond Smith IN THE harrowing opening scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood masterpiece, Saving Private Ryan, sea-sick US troops nervously approach the shores of occupied France, vomiting over the sides of their landing boats. They come under a hail of enemy fire and see their fellow men get blown to smithereens. Upon the...
The composer who hears a symphony in everyday sounds Cyprus

The composer who hears a symphony in everyday sounds

January 20th, 2019 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...
Increased contributions will affect spending and recruitment Guest Columnist

Increased contributions will affect spending and recruitment

January 20th, 2019 By Theodoros Mantis The social insurance plan and the imminent implementation of the national health scheme (Gesy) are among the most crucial chapters of the state’s social policy. From January 1, there  are be changes to the contributions by employees, the self-employed and the optionally insured to the Social Insurance...
Our View: If only our judges were capable of showing humility Opinion

Our View: If only our judges were capable of showing humility

January 20th, 2019 THIS has not been a good time for the legal establishment. Lawyers, supreme court judges and the attorney-general have turned on each other, questions have been asked about their integrity and honesty and no one has provided convincing answers. Even the Bar Association stepped into the fray trying to assure everyone that the...
Coffeeshop: Fascinating insights from judiciary brawl Coffeeshop

Coffeeshop: Fascinating insights from judiciary brawl

January 20th, 2019 HOPEFULLY the public bickering among lawyers, judges, prosecutors will continue because it has not only been an entertaining eye-opener, it has also allowed our shabby politicians to take the moral high ground and nod disapprovingly at the shabby goings-on in the legal world. Akelites were particularly happy as lawyer Polys Polyviou,...
Supreme court has power to rescind and reverse injustice Opinion

Supreme court has power to rescind and reverse injustice

January 20th, 2019 By Alper Ali Riza There is no reason in logic, precedent or principle why a decision of a final court of appeal should not be rescinded if it is necessary to correct an injustice caused by the court itself. Provided an unfair decision is not the fault of the parties to an appeal, a final court of appeal can rescind its own decision...
Legal fracas over BoC lances the boil of the old guard Guest Columnist

Legal fracas over BoC lances the boil of the old guard

January 20th, 2019 By Demetris Theodorou Cousins, god-siblings and koumbaroi in the legal world are having a spectacular falling out, divided among themselves into what has become one of the most serious institutional crises of recent history prompted by the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) court cases. The interwoven connections between the main players are...
Former British PM Major urges May to drop Brexit red lines Brexit

Former British PM Major urges May to drop Brexit red lines

January 19th, 2019 Former British prime minister John Major urged Theresa May on Saturday to drop her "red lines" on Brexit or allow parliament to find a way forward to avoid a damaging no-deal departure from the European Union in March. Major said he compromised on key decisions on the Northern Irish peace process and the first Gulf War while prime...
A minute with Simon Field Marathon runner A minute with

A minute with Simon Field Marathon runner

January 19th, 2019 Where do you live? I live in Armou, Paphos, with my dog Snoop, a Cypriot pointer Best childhood memory? From a very young age every year we used to visit friends, helping milk cows in Crediton, Devon Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What do you turn your nose up to? O’Neill’s Irish bar in Paphos, where...
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