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Anastasiades to write to Guterres ahead of UN General Assembly (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades is to write a new letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ahead of a possible meeting between the pair on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next...
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President taken to task for sending private letters on talks
Critics of Nicos Anastasiades on Monday slammed the president over a private and confidential letter he sent to select people, including a number of journalists outlining why the talks failed in...
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Land scams extend far beyond TC properties, says mayor
The unlawful transfer of land to individuals by the government extend far beyond Turkish Cypriot properties, Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos claimed on Monday, further fuelling the controversy his...
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BOC posts net loss of €554m in H1
Bank of Cyprus, the island’s largest lender said that it generated in the first six months of the year a net loss of €554m compared to a net profit of €54m in the respective period of 2016 on increased...
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Hourican vows to clamp down on strategic defaulters, asks society to assist...
Bank of Cyprus’s chief executive officer John Hourican said that the island’s high levels of delinquent loans of roughly half of the banking system’s total loans requires a change in the values of...
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Drilling results expected in September
Various developments on Cyprus’ energy scene are expected to come together this autumn, including the results of now ongoing exploratory gas drilling in offshore block 11. Citing sources, the Cyprus...
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Cyprus government spends least on health in EU
Cyprus ranked last in government expenditure on health in 2015 and 8th in the EU28 in education-related government expenditure, according to an infographic published by Eurostat. When it came to...
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94-year-old in oldest scuba diver bid at Zenobia wreck
Inspirational Ray Woolley spent his 94th birthday on Monday diving to the sunken wreck of the Zenobia ferry in Larnaca in a bid for a Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest scuba diver. The...
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Anger over north’s refusal to allow Ayios Mamas service (Update 4)
Church, government and politicians on Wednesday condemned the authorities in the north for declining permission for the annual church service at Ayios Mamas in Morphou on September 1, 2 and 3. Shortly...
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Late minister’s family sues Republic for Mari case jail death
The family of the late former defence minister Costas Papacostas, who died in 2015 while serving a five-year jail term for manslaughter over the 2011 Mari blast, has sued the Republic and the...
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Etyk bashes Georgiades on pension funds, wants a word with President
Bank workers’ union Etyk said on Wednesday that the rejection by the finance minister of its demands for complete compensation of provident funds for losses suffered in the banking crisis, confirms...
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Five-cent charge for plastic bags on its way
Consumers are using excessively high numbers of plastic bags MPs heard on Wednesday, as discussion of a bill imposing a charge in a bid to cut plastic usage continued at the House environment...
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Unficyp necessary while division persists
The continued operation of Unficyp, the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Cyprus, is necessary while the island’s division remains unresolved, Cyprus’ Permanent Representative to the UN Kornelios...
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Police investigating fraud at Tepak, 11 arrested (Update 2)
Police on Thursday arrested eleven people, including a university professor, in connection with possible fraud in a number of research programmes at the state technical university (Tepak) based in...
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Paphos mayor raises stakes in land probe
Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos upped the ante on Thursday, claiming a coterie of politicians and senior civil servants in key positions are implicated in the transfer of Turkish-Cypriot land, in the...
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Paphos prepares to welcome winter visitors
Paphos is gearing up to welcome thousands of visitors during the winter period, with around eleven thousand beds in all categories of accommodation in operation, according to initial figures. That...
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Probe into presidential documents issue not justified, AG says
Attorney-general Costas Clerides said Friday there were no grounds for an investigation into the possibility of the president committing a criminal offence when he sent journalists and other people...
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Patients call for more health spending
The federation of patient associations called on the state on Friday to increase health spending so that public hospitals could cope with the rising needs. The federation said the state should invest...
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Tseri Avenue plans sent back to the drawing board
NEW plans to redesign Tseri Avenue will be drawn up soon and will examine the possibility of two lanes, it was decided on Friday, Strovolos Mayor Andreas Papacharalambous. Although the government has...
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Poor management of TC land ‘going on for decades’
INTERIOR Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday announced measures designed to halt the apparent misappropriation of Turkish Cypriot properties that has been going on for decades without any effort...
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