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Mia Farrow accused of abuse by her son Entertainment

Mia Farrow accused of abuse by her son

May 24th, 2018 Moses Farrow - who was adopted by the 'Rosemary's Baby' actress and her ex-husband Woody Allen - has penned a lengthy essay titled 'A Son Speaks Out', in which he branded his sister Dylan Farrow's allegations of molestation against the 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' director false, and made a number of claims against his 73-year-old...
Our View: Every president moans about red tape, and yet it stays Our View

Our View: Every president moans about red tape, and yet it stays

May 24th, 2018 OVER the last 20 years we have heard every president of the republic publicly complain at some during their term about the way the state bureaucracy delays public projects, discourages foreign investment and stifles growth. This is an ongoing presidential gripe which proves that, despite the incessant moaning, nobody has dared tackle the...
Anastasiades says he’s losing patience with unions Cyprus

Anastasiades says he’s losing patience with unions

May 23rd, 2018 “I will not allow the state to turn into a feud between unions,” President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday night saying his patience was running out. In strongly worded statements to the press on the sidelines of the business ethics awards organised by the chamber of commerce, Anastasiades said everyone should come to the...
Dumped human excrement first challenge for Limassol sea patrol Cyprus

Dumped human excrement first challenge for Limassol sea patrol

May 23rd, 2018 The newly launched Limassol sea patrol successfully cleaned up a large mass of human waste off the coast before it reached bathing areas, authorities said on Wednesday, leading the contractor who sorted out the mess to make a desperate plea for the state to take drastic measures to stop such incidents. The excrement and other toilet...
No teacher evaluations before safety issue resolved – unions Education

No teacher evaluations before safety issue resolved – unions

May 23rd, 2018 A plan to introduce a modern system evaluating teachers has been in the works for the past 35 years and does not seem to be coming any closer to reality after Poed union said on Wednesday they refuse to discuss it until matters of school health and safety are clarified. In a row between the education ministry and unions which unfolded...
EU Commission urges reforms and reduction of NPLs Business

EU Commission urges reforms and reduction of NPLs

May 23rd, 2018 The European Commission has again asked Cyprus to reduce the non-performing loans in the banking system, overhaul its public service, its judicial system, reform its economy, education system and healthcare by next year.The European Commission was commenting on Thursday in a statement outlining its country specific recommendations in...
WC West Germany 1974 - An Overview World Cup

WC West Germany 1974 - An Overview

May 23rd, 2018 The 1974 World Cup was hosted by West Germany and featured another change to its format. A second group stage replaced the knock-out rounds after the preliminary first round, with both winners playing in the World Cup final.
Pulitzer-winning author Philip Roth dies at 85 World

Pulitzer-winning author Philip Roth dies at 85

May 23rd, 2018 Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his agent said. Roth died in New York City at 10:30 p.m. local time of congestive heart failure, his literary agent Andrew Wylie said. Roth wrote more...
‘Rights for Britons to live in Cyprus as they do now secured’ Cyprus

‘Rights for Britons to live in Cyprus as they do now secured’

May 23rd, 2018 We have secured the right for UK nationals to continue living their life in Cyprus as they do now, new UK High Commissioner Stephen Lillie said in an open letter to UK nationals living on the island on Tuesday, strongly urging those who have not yet done so, to register as residents with the Cypriot authorities, if they wish to continue...
Our View: Transparency on Turkish Cypriot properties better late than never Our View

Our View: Transparency on Turkish Cypriot properties better late than never

May 23rd, 2018 The transparency the government decided to introduce for the distribution and use of Turkish Cypriot properties is a welcome move even though it has arrived some 35 years too late. All the prime pieces of Turkish Cypriot real estate were distributed in the 80s and 90s without transparency and tight regulations. Over the years...
Anastasiades bemoans delays in project implementation (Update 2) Cyprus

Anastasiades bemoans delays in project implementation (Update 2)

May 22nd, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday bemoaned delays in implementing local authority projects during a broad meeting in Limassol to evaluate the progress on projects he had previously announced.   But he also lauded the privatisation of Limassol port and the increased revenues it has brought in, plus the upcoming...
Mother says teacher told student he was ‘short and homosexual’ Cyprus

Mother says teacher told student he was ‘short and homosexual’

May 22nd, 2018 As accusations about the competence of school teachers continue to be voiced, a mother from Limassol on Tuesday said a teacher had called a student “short and homosexual” in front of the whole class. Speaking on Sigma’s lunchtime news programme, Yiota Panayiotou said her 14-year-old son was a consistently good student but had to...
Israel expresses regret over Cyprus House resolution on Gaza Cyprus

Israel expresses regret over Cyprus House resolution on Gaza

May 22nd, 2018 Israel has expressed regret over a resolution adopted by the Cyprus House of Representatives on May 18, condemning the Israeli actions in Gaza. On May 14, violence along the border with Israel resulted in more than 60 Palestinians being killed and over 2,000 injured. In a response to the adoption of the resolution, the Israeli...
Turkey may ban some Israeli goods because of Gaza violence Middle East

Turkey may ban some Israeli goods because of Gaza violence

May 22nd, 2018 President Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Turkey might consider imposing a ban on imports of some Israeli goods over the killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, media reported on Tuesday. Erdogan, who is campaigning for re-election in June, last week hosted Muslim leaders who condemned the events in Gaza...
Kotzias discusses Cyprus issue in Washington Cyprus Talks

Kotzias discusses Cyprus issue in Washington

May 22nd, 2018 The Cyprus problem was among issues on the agenda of a meeting in Washington between Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias and US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell. Kotzias also met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and will continue his meetings on Tuesday. On Wednesday he will travel...
Aussie court convicts archbishop for concealing child sex abuse World

Aussie court convicts archbishop for concealing child sex abuse

May 22nd, 2018 An Australian archbishop was found guilty on Tuesday of concealing child sex abuse by a priest, which Australian media said made him the most senior Catholic in the world to be convicted on such a charge. Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, is expected to be sentenced by the court in June. He faces a maximum penalty of two...
Our View: Tragic death has highlighted the arrogance of unions Our View

Our View: Tragic death has highlighted the arrogance of unions

May 22nd, 2018 IF ANY additional proof were needed of the public sector union rule operating in Cyprus, it was provided in the last 10 days by the government doctors’, the primary teachers’ and the nurses’ unions ranting and raving against ministers, the police and justice system. It was as if these unions were made up of saintly members whose...
Russian 'dirty money' flowing through London damages UK Britain

Russian 'dirty money' flowing through London damages UK

May 21st, 2018 "Dirty" Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions undermines the government's efforts to take a tougher stance against Moscow's "aggressive foreign policy", UK lawmakers said on Monday. Britain's financial centre has been a big beneficiary of the massive flight of Russian cash...
France’s Total may expand presence into block 8 of EEZ (Updated) Energy

France’s Total may expand presence into block 8 of EEZ (Updated)

May 21st, 2018 French energy giant Total, wants to expand its presence into block 8 of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis said on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the presidential palace after the meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and the Regional Director of Total, Stephane Michel, Lakkotrypis...
Cabinet approves ‘new transparency’ for Turkish Cypriot properties Cyprus

Cabinet approves ‘new transparency’ for Turkish Cypriot properties

May 21st, 2018 By Evie Andreou The Cabinet on Monday approved a new, transparent procedure for the distribution and use of Turkish Cypriot properties in the government-controlled areas, scrapping the old system that favoured the few, Interior Minister, Constantinos Petrides said. Speaking to journalists after the cabinet meeting, Petrides said...
Lives in limbo Profile

Lives in limbo

May 21st, 2018 In Cyprus, as with most of Europe, there is a growing number of people here not entirely because they want to be. THEO PANAYIDES meets two women who are trapped on the island but have found ways to make lives for themselves Lives in limbo, people caught in-between; the reflection – and result – of a seismic shift in Cyprus in the...
Film review: Deadpool 2 *** Film Review

Film review: Deadpool 2 ***

May 21st, 2018 By Preston Wilder News arrives that Avengers: Infinity War is now the fifth-biggest film of all time (unadjusted for inflation), having made $1,638 million in the three weeks since it came out; another of this year’s superhero movies, Black Panther, is ninth, with $1,342 million since February. The box-office clout of comic-book...
Dust levels and temperatures expected to be high on Monday Cyprus

Dust levels and temperatures expected to be high on Monday

May 21st, 2018 The labour department announced that small particles with a diameter smaller than 10μm (PM10) exceeded the safe concentration of 50 μg/m3 at 11am in Limassol, Nicosia, Paphos and Famagusta and vulnerable groups should stay inside when possible until the dust subsides. Levels are normal in Nicosia and in the mountains. On Monday,...
First Cypriot winner of Cyprus Amateur Men’s Open Golf

First Cypriot winner of Cyprus Amateur Men’s Open

May 21st, 2018 59 well qualified players teed off last Friday for the first of three rounds in the 18th Cyprus Amateur Men’s Open, organised by the Cyprus Golf Federation(CGF). The course at Elea Golf Club was in pristine condition, although conditions were unseasonably hot with testing winds, which prevailed over all three days of this World...
Volcano's gassy, glassy 'laze' a new threat for Hawaii World

Volcano's gassy, glassy 'laze' a new threat for Hawaii

May 21st, 2018 Hawaii residents coping with Kilauea's volcanic eruption faced a potentially deadly new hazard on Sunday as authorities warned that lava flows reaching the Pacific Ocean could produce noxious clouds of acid fumes, steam and tiny, glass-like particles. The civil defense notices cautioned motorists, boaters and beachgoers to beware of...
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