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Antigone to be staged in Salamis
For only the second time in 42 years, the amphitheatre in Salamis, Famagusta will stage an ancient Greek tragedy this month. The play Antigoni by Sophocles is the first collaboration between the...
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Bird trappers smash conservationists’ car
A foreign conservationist group has called on the government to put more resources into fighting bird trapping on the island following the vandalising of one of the rented vehicles they use to monitor...
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Western pressure for a Cyprus settlement ‘at all costs unacceptable’, Russia...
A day after the leaders of the two communities reiterated their commitment to work towards a settlement inside 2016, the Russian foreign ministry suggested the West was pushing for a “solution at all...
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Audit service to probe claims of zoning upgrades
The Audit Service announced on Friday it would probe claims made by contractor Miltiades Neophytou, that in 2010, former President Demetris Christofias instructed then interior minister Neoclis...
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Diko refuses to work with government in protest over talks ‘blackout’
Diko has announced they will no longer take part in any consultations with President Nicos Anastasiades as long as they continued to be left in the dark regarding the ongoing negotiations in the...
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Harsh realities behind race for a solution
The two leaders have gone further than any others in the process of reaching an agreement, but the toughest issues have yet to be agreed on and both men face serious domestic opposition. To add to the...
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Akinci says if no deal, Greek Cypriots could find themselves ‘neighbours with...
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said that if there is no Cyprus deal Greek Cypriots could find themselves neighbours with Turkey. According to Turkish daily Hurriyet on Monday, Akinci said:...
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Contractor questions ‘haircut’ timing of Christofias payment
Former President Demetris Christofias paid Miltiades Neophytou’s construction firm €100,000 in cash in April 2013, days after banks re-opened in Cyprus in the wake of the Eurogroup decisions that...
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European Court of Justice reaffirms ‘no’ to Cypriot bail-in claimants
The European Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld a previous judgement that dismissed actions calling for the annulment of a March 2013 decision to seize bank deposits as part of Cyprus’ bailout...
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‘Strong Left in Cyprus necessary’
A strong Akel is necessary to counter the conservative policies of Europe and the Cyprus government, the communist party’s leader Andros Kyprianou argued in an open letter on Tuesday, through which he...
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Trump Skittle pic used without permission, says Greek Cypriot photographer
A tweet by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s son, Donald Junior, with a photo of Skittles – the candy – used as an analogy to the threat posed by Syrian refugees, has sparked a huge...
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Leaks affect investigations and trial outcomes, Nicolaou warns
Leaks relating to police investigations are being treated as a matter of corruption that affects the outcome of the case and possibly a trial, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou told MPs on Wednesday. “It...
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Justice minister, MOKAS exchange words over leaks issue
Taking offence over a reference made by the justice minister, the anti-money laundering unit MOKAS on Thursday categorically rejected that it had ever leaked information relating to ongoing...
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Energy high on agenda at meeting with Biden, Anastasiades addresses General...
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday met with US Vice President Joe Biden and top-level US officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York with energy obviously high on the...
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Chamber of Commerce wants public payroll linked to real growth
Τhe Cyprus Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Keve) is against pegging the public payroll to the nominal economic growth rate and proposed to link it instead to real growth. In an interview with the...
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Doctors’ union to stage (another) strike, patients outraged (update)
STATE doctors on Friday announced a three-hour work stoppage for Wednesday, after Health Minister Giorgos Pamborides threw their union (Pasyki) out of a meeting that discussed the possibility of...
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Talks facing critical developments and significant dilemmas, says...
President Nicos Anastasiades said Greek Cypriots could not accept guarantees and foreign armies in Cyprus, and if such pending issues could not be addressed it would not be possible to reach a...
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Desperately needed speed cameras on the way
Speed cameras reduce accidents by up to 30 per cent, but it has been a struggle to get them on the roads By Angelos Anastasiou Nine years after a short-lived test-run of speed cameras in Cyprus, which...
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Christofias hints at sabotage in Mari blast
The July 2011 explosion at Mari naval base may have been an act of sabotage, former president Demetris Christofias has alleged. In an interview with the journal of Greek journalists...
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Leaders offer different takes on UN secretary-general meeting (Updated)
As the dust settled on Monday following the meeting of the two leaders with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Sunday, his envoy Espen Barth Eide spoke of a new tripartite meeting “in the...
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