Two trainee accountants at PwC Cyprus achieved the highest national scores in the March 2017 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) exams. Ermis Petsas achieved first place in Cyprus and 16th worldwide in Governance, Risk and Ethics (P1) examination. Alina Jefimova achieved first place in Cyprus and 29th worldwide in Advanced Financial Management (P4)
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The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter. The creature is wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. David Banner is believed to be dead, and he must let the world think that he is dead, until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
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By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst at FXTM The Dollar tumbled to fresh 13-month lows against a basket of currencies in early trading on Thursday, after July’s Federal Reserve policy statement was presented with a dovish touch. Although the central bank signalled that it would begin shrinking its massive holding of bonds “relatively soon”, the concerns
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Passenger traffic at Paphos airport soared 17.8% and reached 4.1 mln in the first six months of the year. According to operator Hermes Airports, Paphos grew by 27% in a decade, and from 1.8 million passengers in 2006, last year it welcomed 2.3 million passengers. In total, more than 12,700 jobs in the tourist industry
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The ground-breaking pilot project establishing cold-ironing technology at Killini Port in Greece was presented last Thursday at a special event, gathering together public officials, representatives from the local community and stakeholders from social and institutional sectors. The event, which was organised by the European co-funded project Elemed and Killini Port Authority, was opened by the
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The expansion of real economic activity in Cyprus is expected to continue at robust rates in 2017 and 2018, according to the Economics Research Centre (CypERC) of the University of Cyprus, which has trimmed its real GDP projected growth from 3.1% in May to 3.0% in the July Economic Outlook. “The slight downward revision
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. The solution to the debacle lies with the tribes By Alon Ben-Meir Sixteen years have passed and we are still fighting a war in Afghanistan which is not only the longest in American history (at a cost approaching $1 trillion and the blood of thousands of brave soldiers), but one which is morally corrupting
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. By Antonis Loizou F.R.I.C.S. – Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents Among the many innovative positions we now have in Cyprus, after joining the E.U., is to have amongst others a commissioner for the environment. Lovely, so far, since the environment is of a prime importance for all
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. “The scientific community has predicted that we may be entering into the sixth mass extinction in the history of Earth – an event that will trigger a loss of biodiversity of unspeakable proportions” By Sam Ben-Meir In its attack on the very foundations of science, Trumpism constitutes an epistemic disaster: we are facing a
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. One has to spend 12 or 24 hours in any state hospital in Cyprus to realise why the national healthcare system is failing and that introducing a modified version through the autonomy of hospitals and streamlining pay will simply not solve the problem. The truth is that nearly two thirds of all staff
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