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Scandal surrounds Larnaca land registry
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides suggested criminal offences may have been committed in the process of housing the Larnaca land registry in its current building during discussion of the issue at...
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Court hears of landfill contract corruption
A former interior ministry official appears to have been in cahoots with the companies which ultimately won the contracts for the Paphos and Koshi landfills, a witness in the ongoing trial said in...
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Parliament to vote on ban on big cash transactions
Parliament will soon be voting on a bill banning cash transactions of €10,000 and over. Once passed, the law would make any cash-based transactions over €10,000 a criminal act, with fines of up to 10...
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Finance minister says economy in ‘virtuous circle,’ to grow 4% this year
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said the Cypriot economy will expand 4 per cent this year, up from a previous forecast of 3.5 per cent, and will continue growing an average 3 per cent over the next...
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Erdogan, Tsipras meeting important, Nicosia says
Cyprus hopes Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Greece later this month would yield positive results regarding the island’s reunification process, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides...
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Official says media should carry on probing Loizidou case with caution
The media should continue to investigate state attorney Eleni Loizidou’s leaked emails while taking care not to unnecessarily expose the personal data of any of the people referenced in them, personal...
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Tepak suspect turns on colleagues
Rozita Pavlidou, the primary suspect in the case concerning the alleged misappropriation of around €5 million in EU-funds for research programmes at the technical university (Tepak) and the...
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Match fixing bill voted into law
A bill on tackling match fixing was voted into law on Friday with a majority vote, hailed by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou. The legislation provides for the establishment of a five-member ethics...
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Health ministry to launch oral cancer prevention campaign
State health services announced on Friday the launch next week of an information campaign against oral cancer as prevention they and early detection can reduce new cases or improve survival rates by...
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Ten BoC ex-directors and execs fined for misleading investors
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Committee (Cysec) has fined ten former Bank of Cyprus directors, executives and the lender itself for failing to adequately report provisions for loan impairments in...
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Pope ends sensitive trip to Asia after seeking Rohingya forgiveness
Pope Francis ended a diplomatically tricky trip to Asia on Saturday, seeking the forgiveness of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh after his controversial decision to not directly refer to their...
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President says leaked Russian emails will affect Cyprus’ image
The leaked emails of state attorney Eleni Loizidou, de facto second in command at the state Legal Service, have put Cyprus in the difficult position of having to defend itself against the appearance of...
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Hopes for positive signs for Cyprus from Erdogan’s visit
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Athens at the end of next week draws nearer, hopes are high that it will shed some light on Turkey’s intentions regarding the stalled Cyprus problem...
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Struggling to bring up a dead sister’s children
Nikola Nikolov is the only working member of his family but, along with wife Blaga Petkova, was determined to keep the promise he made to his dying sister and bring up her children as his own. The...
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Unanswered questions over mountain project
While two reports are pending over the controversial Pera Pedi development project, it is unlikely either of them will provide answers to many of the questions that have arisen since allegations of its...
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Former Diko leader takes pot shot at candidate
Former Diko leader Marios Garoyian on Sunday fired a shot at presidential candidate Nicolas Papadopoulos, who unseated him in 2013, voicing disagreement with his veiled efforts to denounce the bizonal,...
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Former Solidarity members turn on leader
The 300 members of Solidarity that have quit the party over leader Eleni Theocharous’ decision to back Nicolas Papadopoulos in the upcoming presidential election are real people and not ghosts, a...
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Russia asks Cyprus to investigate theft of attorney’s emails
By Angelos Anastasiou Russia has made a written request to the authorities of Cyprus to investigate the illegal theft of emails sent and received by senior state counsel Eleni Loizidou,...
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‘Unfathomable’ levels of corruption and graft
By Angelos Anastasiou CYPRUS is seeing “unfathomable” levels of corruption and graft, despite the blows it has been dealt recently, both Attorney-general Costas Clerides and Auditor-general Odysseas...
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Police probe possible new co-op corruption case
By Elias Hazou Police are investigating another case of possible corruption where a senior cadre of a cooperative bank was re-hired as a consultant by the same company just a day after retiring with a...
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