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Illegal parking complaints more than doubled last year
Illegal parking complaints more than doubled in 2016 over the previous year to 9,163 from 3,574, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said on Sunday. According to CNA, Angelides put the increase down to...
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Surviving the fickle lira
By Aydin Calik If you are shopping for a new house in northern Cyprus, you will have to get your pounds ready. A new car? Euros. How about a second-hand one? Again, the Great British Pound. Or perhaps...
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Ozgurgun says ‘Enosis Day’ move a ‘severe blow’ to Cyprus talks
Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun on Sunday blasted parliament’s decision on Friday to introduce 1950 ‘Enosis Day’ in schools calling it a “most severe blow” to the talks. According to...
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National Council convenes today to discuss developments
The National Council, the top advisory body to the President of the Republic on the handling of the Cyprus issue, meets on Monday morning under President Nicos Anastasiades, ahead of a second...
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Two suspects in Paphos road signs scam deny charges
Two of the four former and current employees of the Paphos municipality who are allegedly involved in a road signs scam that cheated the local government out of an estimated €300,000, denied the...
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Anastasiades condemns Turkish Cypriot reaction to Enosis vote (Update 2)
Nicos Anastasiades on Monday strongly condemned Turkish Cypriot reaction to the move by parliament last week to approve a proposal by far-right Elam to effectively introduce an ‘Enosis Day’ in schools,...
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Peyia mayor declares war on tax cheats
PEYIA council, under its new mayor, has vowed to claw back millions of euros in back taxes owed by local businesses and homeowners. Marinos Lambrou, mayor of Peyia, said that he is taking a hard-line...
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Renewable power generation up 3.4% in 2016
Power production from renewable energy sources rose 3.4 per cent last year to 327,284.5 megawatt hours (MWH) compared to 2015 mainly on increased output generated by private photovoltaic systems, the...
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New soldiers threaten to walk out over conditions
Newly recruited contract soldiers have threatened mass resignations if their complaints about overwork and the terms of their employment are not sorted out by the defence ministry. In a letter to the...
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Georgiades: biggest risk to growth is ‘our bad selves’
The greatest risk to the satisfactory and viable growth rate of the Cypriot economy is “our own bad selves”, finance minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday. He was commenting on the announcement by...
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Paphos gardens to be spruced up with Second Nature event
The long overdue regeneration of the public gardens in the heart of Paphos old town is underway with an official Pafos2017 project titled Second Nature. The town hall gardens in Paphos have been the...
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Current climate ‘not optimal’ Eide says, but remains confident (Update 2)
The intercommunal climate for the Cyprus talks is not optimal at the moment, following last Friday’s decision by parliament to introduce a commemoration of the anniversary of the Enosis referendum, the...
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Hasikos tells Strovolos officials to butt out of road-making decisions
Municipal councillors should butt out of road-making decisions and stick to the duties assigned to them by law, Interior Minister Sokratis Hasikos said on Wednesday. Speaking on state radio, Hasikos...
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Cabinet approves start-up scheme for foreign investors
A SCHEME aimed at attracting foreign investment to Cyprus through third-country – i.e. non-European Union – innovative start-ups was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday. Speaking after the cabinet...
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Divided hauliers reject Eurogate deal, remain outside port (Update)
After lorry drivers rejected the agreement struck by container terminal operator Eurogate and Povek, to compensate them for time lost while waiting at the Limassol port late on Wednesday, the hauliers...
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UN’s Eide tries to calm tensions as reunification talks up in the air (Update 3)
UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide embarked on shuttle diplomacy late on Thursday evening in an attempt to get both community leaders to resume reunification talks after each side started a blame-game...
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Truck drivers rebuff Anastasiades as cargo floods port
The deadlock at the Limassol port continued on Friday, after lorry drivers defied President Nicos Anastasiades’s appeal to resume the delivery of containers whose number increases by the day, making a...
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Anastasiades says he will refrain from blame-game
FOLLOWING Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci’s insistence, for the second day, that Anastasiades was the one who left the negotiating table first, the president on Friday announced he would no...
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Anastasiades concedes Enosis vote a bad idea but TC reaction still unjustified
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday that despite parliament’s decision to introduce an annual commemoration of the 1950 referendum on the island’s union with Greece (Enosis) in public...
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An open wound in the heart of the capital
EUROPEAN Union funding for the Eleftheria Square do-over is at serious risk of being lost if the ambitious project is not finished by the end of the year, the Directorate-general for European...
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