. On being invited to be one of the judges at this year’s competition to find the best Sommelier in Cyprus, which takes place at the InterContinental Hotel, Aphrodite Hills on Saturday, December 5, it occurred to me that many readers may not know the process that ends when the wine waiter opens a bottle
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. One could argue that this is not a rhetorical question, but to be bluntly frank the establishment in London is naïve as well as biased and our people in Nicosia are simply incapable of doing anything about it. It’s just that in this world of giants and small players, we are expected to behave
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. The new 656-million-euro Larnaca International Airport started partial operations on Tuesday, with Communications and Works Minister Nicos Nicolaides and Hermes Airports CEO Alfred van der Meer welcoming the first passengers to arrive from Amman at 7.25am. Moments later, departing passengers boarded Cyprus Airways’ flight to Athens using one of the 16 new air bridges,
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New projects in Nicosia The newest fad of shopping malls in Cyprus, an unknown phenomenon up until ten years ago, is already going through its first crisis call, with some store owners doing very well and others considering closing down due to dropping sales and high investment costs. This has prompted some mall developers to
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European regulators on Tuesday urged the United States and Europe to push through measures agreed by the G20 nations aimed at avoiding future financial crises, saying trans-Atlantic relations were at risk if the effort flagged. The G20 group of industrial and emerging nations has laid out a raft of measures to improve financial supervision to
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Weakness in banks and commodity stocks, pressured by lower metal and crude prices, dragged Britain's top share index lower early on Tuesday as investors booked profits after a four-day winning streak. By 0846 GMT the FTSE 100 index was 33.47 points lower at 5,349.20 as investors paused for breath after the index hit a 14-month
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Britain's inflation rate accelerated in October, as expected, after a sharp fall in transport costs last year was not repeated, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics said consumer price inflation rose to 1.5 percent last month, in line with the consensus forecast, from a five-year low of 1.1 percent in September.
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World stocks slipped on Tuesday from the previous day's 2009 high and oil and gold fell as investors locked in gains from a strong rally, while the dollar edged higher from its 15-month lows. Expectations that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates near zero for some time had been weighing on the dollar, fuelling
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Britain's inflation rate accelerated in October, as expected, after a sharp fall in transport costs last year was not repeated, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics said consumer price inflation rose to 1.5 percent last month, in line with the consensus forecast, from a five-year low of 1.1 percent in September.
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Asian shares, gold and oil eased on Tuesday as investors locked in recent gains while keeping an eye on the ailing dollar, which was pinned near 15-month lows on expectations that U.S. interest rates will stay extremely low for some time. The dollar edged up against a basket of major trading-partner currencies <.DXY> but its
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