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Bases and government urged to do more to protect birds (updated)
Approximately 2.3 million birds have been killed in Cyprus in autumn 2016 alone, a new study by BirdLife Cyprus found. From August to October more than 850 mist nets were confiscated, the highest...
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Police investigating pupil beating claim
Police and school authorities are investigating a report that a teacher in Limassol hit a 13-year-old pupil’s head on the desk in the classroom, sending him to hospital, it emerged on Thursday. Reports...
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‘Time to stop thinking public workers are of a higher order’
Public service union Pasydy’s demand that its members be exempt from contributing to the national health system (Gesy) sparked fierce reactions on Thursday from the government, opposition parties, the...
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Sole eyewitness to teen’s road death ‘couldn’t sleep for a year afterwards’...
The sole eyewitness to the fatal road accident in December 2007 in Limassol where a 17-year-old boy was killed, told the court on Thursday that the driver accused of causing his death, Efi Irodotou,...
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Tree-cutting out of control in Paphos
THE Paphos greens are up in arms over tree cutting in the district, which they say is out of control. Andreas Evlavis, secretary of the Paphos Green party told the Cyprus Mail that immediate measures...
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Neophytou confirms dinner date with Akinci focused on restarting talks...
Ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci had dinner last Tuesday in the north, where they discussed ongoing efforts to resume stalled talks on the Cyprus problem,...
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New case of possible co-op overcharging being investigated
The financial ombudsman said on Friday he was investigating another case relating to possible excess charges on a loan at Strovolos co-op, which has to return some €27,000 after it emerged that it had...
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Trump, Germany’s Merkel hold first face-to-face meeting at White House...
President Donald Trump reiterated his strong support for NATO on Friday and pressed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet NATO’s military spending target, in the first face-to-face meeting between...
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Paphos gears up for Israel trip, one eye on tips for creating tech hub
A LARGE delegation of officials from Cyprus is preparing to travel on an inaugural flight for the second part of Paphos official twinning with Herzliya in Israel in ten days’ time. Paphos officials are...
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Anastasiades to express ‘will of the people’ to UNSG
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday that in his upcoming meeting with the UN Secretary General, in New York he will express the will of the Greek Cypriot side to continue the dialogue on the...
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Akinci says Maronites can return to Ayia Marina
The Maronites of occupied Ayia Marina will soon be free to return to their village, which is currently a military base, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said during a visit at the village on...
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Neophytou says we need to talk and listen to each other
Last week’s unannounced dinner with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was not the only contact Disy leader Averof Neophytou has had, and he will continue his efforts to help revive the dialogue...
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False alarm at Larnaca departures area (update 3)
The departures area at Larnaca airport was evacuated on Saturday night after a suspect item was reported to the police. However two hours after people had been herded out police explosive experts...
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While Russians elsewhere in the EU are flooding home, in Cyprus they are...
Cyprus, and Limassol in particular, is proving immune to the exodus of Russians living in the EU who returned to their home country in 2016, spurred on by what they say is a growing anti-Russian...
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Three objectives to president’s US visit, spokesman says
President Nicos Anastasiades was due to leave on Sunday for the US for a visit the government spokesman said on Sunday had three objectives, the Cyprus issue, foreign investment and energy. Especially...
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Georgiades defends Cyprus’ economic policy ahead of Eurogroup
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Sunday the government would not take any fiscal measures that would undermine the economy`s growth prospects, despite the European Commission`s view that...
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Minister calls for ‘popular demand’ to help speed up health reforms
Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Sunday that though the procedures for the reform of the health sector were in the final stages, there were still obstacles that must be overcome. “It’s not...
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Bondholders’ chairman to stand for president
Chairman of the Bondholders Association Fivos Mavrovouniotis will stand as an independent presidential candidate in the 2018 elections. The decision was announced at an extraordinary general meeting of...
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In hindsight, Cypriots would have preferred lower across-the-board haircut,...
Most Cypriots believe there was no way to avoid the seizure of uninsured deposits that took place four years in the island’s two largest banks, that President Nicos Anastasiades knew a ‘haircut’ was...
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Parties, not state should pay MP assistant salaries, Audit chief says
MPs’ assistants should not be paid directly by the state but from the parties that employ them, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has told the House general secretary in a letter. According to local...
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