Every time I tell people that I prefer cold, windy, rainy weather, they laugh at me, telling me that I’ve picked the wrong country to live in. Well maybe. But then they say how weird I am, and how summer is so awesome. How they love the sun and the beach. Well, I hope you all are enjoying it then. While I sit inside, under the air condition turned on to full power.
Category: Cyprus
I live in Cyprus for many years now. It is a beautiful little island in Mediterranean Sea. It features warm weather for most of the year, sea, very kind and hospital people, plenty of jobs in IT industry, good food and plenty of alcohol, stable currency, and more. It’s really a nice place to live if you can handle small towns and villages. It’s also a great place to raise the kids.
Not much happens here. It is a quiet and simple place. Yet, when something happens or when I write about it, I post it to Cyprus category.
Police enforce new drink and speeding regulations
Police enforce new drink and speeding regulations
THE POLICE have started issuing on-the-spot fines for speeding and drinking offences this week implementing a law that empowers the police to immediately punish offenders, the head of traffic police Demetris Demetriou said yesterday.
“Now we’ve got immediate sentences rather than sentences in court after two years,” Demetriou said.
For drinking under the influence of alcohol, the police will issue on-the-spot fines and/or penalty points to anyone whose breath test registers up to 70 micrograms per 100 ml. The limit is 22mg/dL.
The fines are €100 for up to 35mg/dL; €200 and two penalty points for between 36mg/dL and 55mg/dL; €300 and three penalty points for between 56 mg/dL and 70mg/dL.
Anyone reading over 70mg/dL will go to court and could get six penalty points, a fine of up to €400 and at least €150, and/or a jail sentence.
Drivers will also be issued on-the-spot fines and will be punished with €1.0 for each kilometre per hour when they have exceeded the limit by up to 30 per cent.
When driving between 31 per cent and 50 per cent faster than the limit, drivers will pay €2.0 per km/h and two penalty points.
Driving between 51 per cent and 75 per cent faster than the limit is punishable costs €3.0 per km/h and three penalty points.
Bill Clinton in Cyprus
The former president of the USA, Bill Clinton is visiting Cyprus. Cyprus Mail reports that he will be giving a lecture on the economic crisis:
FORMER president of the United States Bill Clinton will give a lecture on the economic crisis, at European University Cyprus on Saturday.
Clinton is the Honorary Chancellor of Laureate International Universities, which the European University is connected to, and he offers advice on social responsibility, youth leadership and increasing access to higher education.
“President Clinton will share his ideas with our students, faculty, administration, alumni and the community in the (university’s) Cultural Centre at 4pm, in a public address on ‘The Current Global Economic Situation”, the university announced.
Clinton is due to exchange views and ideas with the audience.
The website of European University Cyprus also has some information, as well as the map.
Update (July 22, 2012): If you missed the event, read this Cyprus Mail coverage. And this.
Update (August 12, 2012): There’s now also a YouTube video (via Economists of Cyprus).
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First Cyprus hackaton
The guys from The Cypriot Enterprise Link are organizing the first ever hackaton in Cyprus. In case you don’t know what a hackaton is:
hackathon, noun : An event where engineers, designers & ideators come together to intensively and collaboratively build awesome things over a short amount of time.
Neither the venue, nor the exact date and time are announced, but it’s going to take place some time in September. But if you are a programmer, designer, and/or entrepreneur, you should probably follow the news on this one and attend. Even if you don’t want to do anything with coding right now, an event like this will probably be brilliant for networking.