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Limassol mayor announces he will stand for third term
Limassol Mayor Andreas Christou on Tuesday officially announced that he would be seeking a third term in December’s local elections. Christou, who served as MP with AKEL and interior minister in the...
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May and Anastasiades discuss bilateral relationship (updated)
Relations between the UK and Cyprus are evolving very well and there are other issues on which the two countries can build on, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday after meeting Cyprus...
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Opposition turn their guns on Eide
Having found little fault with President Nicos Anastasiades’ performance in New York, and his supposed thwarting of attempts for a multilateral conference on the Cyprus issue, the parties of the...
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Greece, Cyprus, Israel look into East Med gas pipeline
Greece, Cyprus and Israel said on Wednesday they would pursue ways of channeling east Mediterranean gas to Europe via a pipeline to Greece. With significant finds reported in the past decade, Israel...
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Cypriots, foreigners pack Salamina theatre amid criticism
Despite public protest by political parties and even individual dissenters, thousands of people flooded the ancient Salamina theatre in occupied Famagusta to watch a rendition of Sophocles’ tragedy...
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Diko sticks auditor-general on Antigone production
Following a request by Diko chairman Nicolas Papadopoulos, the auditor-general on Friday launched an investigation into the procedures preceding the staging of an ancient Greek tragedy in occupied...
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Anastasiades not willing to satisfy ‘unjustified concerns’, he says in...
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday that the 56th anniversary of the island’s independence on October 1, presented an opportunity to look back and see that many times throughout the years, and...
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We need to find the courage for peace says President
We need to concentrate not on defence plans but on equipping ourselves with courage for peace, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday. He was speaking after he received the salute of the...
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Americans stressed out by election
By Alana Wise Stop reading the news and take up yoga. That’s what some therapists in the United States are telling patients stressed out by a nasty presidential campaign in which two unpopular...
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Eide: leaders have to decide on approach for the big issues of territory and...
It is up to the leaders to decide whether to hold their discussions on territory and security in Cyprus or aboard, UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide said on Monday. Eide was speaking after a...
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Time running out for reforming civil service, finance minister says (Updated)
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades on Monday warned that Cyprus was risking public finances getting out of hand yet again because the delay in pushing civil service reforms forward could allow an...
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Bodies of Greek soldiers downed in 1974 returned home
The remains of 16 Greek soldiers who died as a result of friendly fire in July 1974 were transferred to Greece on Tuesday after a 14-month procedure to identify their bodies. At an emotionally charged...
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Limassol casino on the cards as sole bid submitted
By Angelos Anastasiou The Melco-Hard Rock Resorts Cyprus consortium submitted the only final bid in the second leg of the government’s tender invitation for an integrated resort casino, the commerce...
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Vgenopoulos indicted in Greece
Criminal charges were filed against Greek financier and former Laiki Bank strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos on Thursday by prosecutors in Greece, over the lending of up to €200 million from Laiki to the...
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Audit boss threatens to set AG on Thoc
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides warned the Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Thoc) on Thursday that if it refuses to handover by Friday documents concerning all performances of Sophocles’ Antigone,...
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Same-sex marriage on British base a first among overseas UK forces
An Army sergeant has married his partner in the first same-sex wedding in a British Forces overseas territory, the Press Association (PA) reported on Friday. Alastair Smith, of the 2nd Battalion the...
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No ‘interim deal’ on Cyprob, say leaders
BOTH leaders on Friday stressed there was no question of signing an interim agreement on the Cyprus issue. Speaking separately after their third meeting so far this month, President Nicos Anastasiades...
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Trump defiantly apologises after lewd remarks about women (updated)
(Editor’s Note: Attention to language that may be offensive to some readers in paragraphs 14, 16) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump scrambled to prevent his campaign from falling apart early...
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Georgiades: inconceivable to oppose solution on financial grounds
It would be inconceivable to oppose a Cyprus solution on the grounds of financial difficulties, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades has said, adding that would be equally problematic to disregard the...
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Water levels desperate, fall to 2008 levels
Water levels in reservoirs in Cyprus are desperately low and weather forecasts show no signs of that changing, acting director of the Water Development Department Nicos Neocleous said on Monday....
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