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Leaders to discuss how to resume negotiations
The two leaders will be submitting proposals on how to proceed with the reunification negotiations during their meeting next week, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday. The UN...
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State may try to recoup repatriation costs from Cobalt, ex employees slam...
Transport Minister Vasiliki Anastasiadou did not rule out suing Cobalt Air to recover the cost of repatriating stranded passengers following the airline’s grounding and assured that the gap it left...
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BoC chairman warns of risk of new financial crisis
By Annette Chrysostomou Although the European banking sector is safer now than it was 10 years ago, there is always the risk of another financial crisis, Bank of Cyprus (BoC) chairman Josef Ackermann...
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New crisis looms in health sector
By Lizzy Ioannidou A NEW crisis appeared to be rearing its head in the beleaguered health sector on Friday when Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou called out state doctors union Pasyki for what he...
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Fitch upgrades Cyprus to investment grade
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Cyprus’ sovereign rating to investment grade, ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’, with a stable outlook as the island expects a 2.7 per cent fiscal surplus this year and continuous growth...
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J&P’s Joannou family calls on partners to return €29m they owe
Two days after the appointment of administrators who will oversee the winding up of construction company Joannou & Paraskevaides Overseas Limited, the Joannou family urged its partners to...
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Free pass for law-breaking hunters
By Evie Andreou Inefficiencies within the Game and Fauna Fund allows law-breaking hunters a free rein without penalty for offences they’ve committed, it has emerged. Inconsistencies between law...
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Cyprob fatigue as leaders set to meet
Apart from politicians and those journalists on the Cyprus-problem beat, does anyone care any more? Elias Hazou POLITICAL leaders may have expressed satisfaction or dissatisfaction over the UN...
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Guterres report: a shocking volte face
The changed direction of the secretary-general’s new report raises fears of 50 more years of talks By Esra Aygin As revelations suggesting that the Greek Cypriot leadership and Turkey are binning the...
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Calls for greater oversight of pig farm operations
Claims that pig farms are operating illegally Recent complaints against pig farming have highlighted once again the sluggish enforcement of laws. Concerned Orounda residents on Monday demanded an...
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Amid old Nicosia gentrification, a space to call their own
With fewer places for the young and the alternative to meet in Nicosia, the old market has provided a temporary reprieve Walking past the old municipal market in the heart of Nicosia’s old town, an...
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Officials begin to record damage in Ayios Trimithias (Photos: aftermath)
Every effort is being made to help the residents of Ayios Trimithias and Paliometocho who were affected by a whirlwind that caused huge damage on Sunday afternoon, Interior Minister Constantinos...
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Co-op customer ran up €3.2m debt in account blunder
A customer at the Ahna cooperative bank was allowed to run up a subsequently unserviced debt of €3.2m even though his current account had a €1 limit, an inquiry into the sector’s collapse heard on...
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Turkish side ups ante in gas word war
Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot side upped the rhetoric on Monday with regard to Cyprus’ energy plans with warning messages to the government coming from both the north and from Ankara, one of which...
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Parole Board silence over Rikkos’ early release infuriates MPs
MPs of the Akel and Diko parties were riled on Monday when the Prisons Parole Board again refused to hand over its decision concerning the early release from jail of former deputy attorney-general...
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Minister to unveil controversial scheme to aid debt defaulters
Finance minister Harris Georgiades will next Monday be unveiling the final version of the ‘Estia’ scheme targeted at vulnerable homeowners who are in arrears with their mortgage payments. MPs had asked...
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National council meeting to discuss ‘loose federation’
President Nicos Anastasiades was on Tuesday briefing party leaders on his idea of a decentralised federation as a form of settlement. Asked on Monday, on the sidelines of an event in Nicosia,...
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Cavusoglu: Turkey open to alternative solutions
By Evie Andreou Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said that before a new round of talks is launched, it must be decided which type of solution is being sought, adding that Turkey was open to...
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No proposal on ‘loose federation’ tabled at national council (updated)
Despite expectations, President Nicos Anastasiades did not table a detailed proposal on ‘loose’ federation as form of settling the island’s division at the national council and he did not give clear...
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Closure of Akamas road causes tensions
A stretch of road in the Akamas national park where a Russian couple died at the weekend after their car went off the edge of the cliff has been closed, causing contention in the area. The local...
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