Новости за 28.03.2024

The House plenum on Thursday passed the budgets of four more public-law entities, including the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC). The two other public organisations that had their 2024 budgets approved were the RES and Energy Conservation Fund, and the Digital Security Authority. The...

British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama “Oppenheimer”, will receive a knighthood from Britain for services to film. His wife and film producer Emma Thomas will receive a damehood, the female equivalent of a knighthood, the British government said on Thursday in a list of honours recommended...

The United States will partner with Mexico to explore semiconductor supply chain opportunities, the State Department said on Thursday, as the Biden administration pushes to reduce reliance on China and Taiwan for the technology. The collaboration will take place as part of the U.S. CHIPS Act, a 2022 law that...

MPs at the House health committee on Thursday called on state health services organisation (Okypy) and the health ministry to promptly address the hospitalisation and post-operative care of liver transplant patients. The committee requested an update within a week regarding the possibility of accommodating these patients in beds at the...

Out-of-court fines for traffic violations will largely remain the same but offenders will have more time to pay them, according to tweaks to the legislation discussed in parliament on Thursday. The House transport committee was reviewing six government bills amending laws governing traffic fines and the use of cameras in...

Music knows no boundaries. Some of it is structured and carefully planned to produce divine melodies. Yet there exists a world where music is born on the spot, improvised, and an upcoming festival is on a mission to promote it. Breach Festival, organised by Make Music Cyprus, returns for its...

A Turkish Cypriot born to a “mixed marriage” had his appeal against a denial of his Cypriot citizenship rejected by the Nicosia administrative court on Thursday. The court upheld the 2007 cabinet decision made under late President Tassos Papadopoulos that children of mixed marriages cannot be made citizens of the...

Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in the former billionaire wunderkind’s dramatic downfall. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence at a Manhattan...

The Limassol district court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old to two years in prison for a fatal traffic accident that took place on July 10, 2020, resulting in the death of 19-year-old Marilena Perikleous. The accident occurred when the driver overtook a car between Platres and Limassol at a point...

Police have secured bank details for the two monks embroiled in a massive scandal, though they have yet to appear before the church-appointed investigative committee. A CNA source on Thursday said scores of people have already appeared before the six-member committee to give statements. Efforts are underway at a “feverish...

A man appeared in court in the north on Thursday accused of threatening to incinerate his own 79-year-old mother. Police officer Hasan Celik said in court that the man had on Tuesday burnt a hole in a tarpaulin sheet on the edge of his mother’s garden with a cigarette. The...

CyBC’s delayed budget submission was deemed “proverbial callousness” by opposition Akel on Thursday, who proposed a law to stop delays in budget submissions from semi-governmental organisations. “It will put an end to the unacceptable and provocative delay in the submission of the budgets,” said interior committee president Aristos Damianou. “This...

Victorious rowers in Britain’s University Boat Race have been warned not to jump into the River Thames this weekend due to alarming levels of E. coli bacteria, as official data showed sewage spills hit a record high in 2023. Regular dumping of raw sewage in rivers and seas has sparked...

Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor Constantinos Herodotou on Thursday utilised the second educational video by the CBC to emphasise the vital importance of digital financial literacy in today’s digital age. According to the CBC, these videos are integral to a larger initiative aimed at improving financial literacy throughout Cyprus,...

A 16-year-old boy from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after having ridden a stolen moped. The boy was seen by police riding the stolen moped. The police proceeded to stop him, and subject him to a drug test, to which he tested positive. Police are looking for another child who...

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme of the University of Cyprus (UCY) proudly announces it has successfully passed its fourth consecutive re-accreditation by the international organisation European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), once again granting it the quality certification that it has held since 2012. The prestigious EFMD accreditation...

Once again, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC stands tall as the undisputed leader, securing its Tier 1 ranking across all nine practice areas in the prestigious Legal 500 EMEA – 2024 edition, marking a monumental achievement for another year. With notable dedication and expertise, we continue to maintain a leading...

By Samantha Dodson and Rachael Dailey Goodwin Former US President Donald Trump has faced dozens of sexual misconduct allegations over the decades. He’s the first president to be held liable for sexual assault, and in January, he was ordered to pay over US$80 million to E Jean Carroll for...

Legislation that would that would allow people living in Scotland with a terminal illness to take their own lives was laid before the country’s parliament on Thursday as a poll showed the policy is backed by most of the population. If the legislation is passed, Scotland would join other countries...

The neighbourhood social worker service will be expanded following last April’s successful pilot of the programme, it was announced on Thursday. Each municipality or community that participates in the scheme will receive a relevant telephone number to seek help or information from their neighbourhood social worker. To mark the programme’s...

A total of 247 birds, all finches, were killed in a fire set on bird cages in the village of Mandres in the north. The cages were in the back garden of a residential property, with the fire brigade currently believing that the cause of the fire was a short...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday met with the advisory committee on tax reform, asking that progress on this matter be accelerated, in order to reap any benefits at the earliest opportunity. The meeting, which took place at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, also involved Finance Minister Makis Keravnos, and allowed...

The results of a death inquiry into the 2005 death of national guardsmen Thanasis Nicolaou will happen after Easter it was decided on Thursday. The third inquiry into the death of Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa in 2005, came to an end on Thursday....

One in ten women of reproductive age suffer from endometriosis in Cyprus, Minister of Health Michael Damianos said. The condition affects the quality of life of millions of women worldwide and is one of the most common gynaecological diseases, he said while speaking at the awareness-raising event “EndoMarch2024”. Cyprus is...

Turkish Cypriot authorities were criticised this week after Cameroonian anti-racism campaigner Emmanuel Achiri discovered he has been barred from going to the north, despite having lived there for almost a decade. According to what the north’s ‘interior ministry’ told the Cyprus Mail, Achiri has indeed been declared persona non grata...