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Paphos museums closed in culture capital year
By Bejay Browne TWO of Paphos’ most popular museums are currently closed, leading would-be visitors to question the timing of the closures while the town is in the midst of its year-long stint as...
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A sock, a shirt and a tattered belt, relics of those unearthed as CMP races...
By Emilia Christofi In the past ten years, 558 Greek Cypriots and 184 Turkish Cypriots missing were identified and their remains returned to their families. For their families, the wait is over and the...
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Guterres and Eide discuss Cyprus issue in Munich
The situation in the Cyprus talks and the next steps were discussed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide at a meeting on the sidelines of the Munich...
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Recovering real estate market sign of hope for banks, Moody’s says
Moody’s Investors Service said that the recovery of property prices, reported by the Central Bank of Cyprus a week ago, would improve the asset quality of Cypriot banks, which is a “credit positive”....
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Claims of sabotage in port transition chaos (Update 2)
The processing of containers at Limassol harbour appeared to have markedly improved on Monday compared to the previous week, although the situation took a new twist amid allegations that port machinery...
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BOC to finance shipping as global nationalism threatens trade, Hourican says
By Stelios Orphanides Bank of Cyprus’s chief executive officer John Hourican said that as the largest Cypriot lender was about to engage in financing of Cypriot and Greek shipping, roughly 17 per cent...
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Vandals strike Paphos old town, cutting down new trees and smashing windows
VANDALS in Paphos old town were caught on CCTV cutting down newly planted trees and smashing shop windows, aided by insufficient street lighting, officials said on Tuesday. The incidents took place in...
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Cheaper fuel discussed in House
The government is not prepared to reduce fuel taxes unless other measures are put in place to offset the loss in revenue, the House finance committee heard on Tuesday. The committee discussed the...
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Leaders’ meeting remains up in the air (updated)
Patience has its limits, and if Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci honestly wants a solution to the Cyprus problem, he should not be making excuses, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday. He...
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Body of missing diver found off Polis coast (Update 4)
The authorities on Wednesday found the body of a diver missing since Saturday in the sea off Polis. Andreas Yiangou, 31, was found around eight nautical miles from the spot search parties had found his...
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Diko leader’s visit to port a ‘flagrant insult’ to transport minister
Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos’ meeting at the Limassol port which included the ports authority officials and the deputy port master was an insult to state institutions and the transport minister...
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Government debt rises to €19bn in December
Cyprus’s public debt rose by €357.1m in a year, to €19bn last December, the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) said. The largest creditor was the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which, together...
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Turkey ‘not making enough progress to merit visa-free EU travel’
Turkey is not delivering sufficiently on reforms to meet the terms of a migration deal that would allow Turks visa-free travel into the European Union, a senior EU official told Reuters on Thursday,...
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Azerbaijan puts Eleni Theocharous on most wanted list
Azerbaijan has issued international arrest warrants for three MEPs, including Cypriot Eleni Theocharous, over their visit to breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh during a referendum on February 20. According to...
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Kasoulides slams Turkish side for ‘becoming unrecognisable’
The Turkish Cypriot side has become unrecognisable in recent days, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Thursday, “not wanting to talk, and wasting time”. “They don’t even talk,” Kasoulides told...
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Demetriades dismisses calls to resign, won’t ‘abandon ship’
TRANSPORT Minister Marios Demetriades said on Thursday he refuses to abandon ship in a storm as a response to calls for his resignation over the problems at Limassol port the handover of the container...
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‘Sweet deal for Opap’ but not the state, audit boss says
BETTING giant OPAP – who under an interstate agreement between Cyprus and Greece has a monopoly on lottery number games here – should be paying the state some €25 million more than it actually is, the...
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NHS roadmap to be unveiled to MPs
THE government will shortly be unveiling its definitive roadmap on the rollout of the National Health Scheme (NHS), MPs were told on Thursday. First Health Officer Elisavet Constantinou informed...
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Akinci will return to talks when House corrects Enosis decision (updated)
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Friday he will return to the negotiating table the day after the Republic’s parliament corrects its decision to commemorate the January 1950 Enosis (union...
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Paphos ‘an example of good cooperation between state services’
Paphos could become a good example of cooperation with state services for the implementation of construction projects, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Friday. Following a meeting with...
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