Foreign minister accuses DISY of Spanish inquisition over expenses
Author: Poly Pantelides ACCUSING DISY’s second-in-command of launching a Spanish inquisition in parliament, the foreign minister almost walked out of a discussion on her ministry’s budget for...
View ArticleJail for cruel dog owner
Author: Alexandra Anastassiades ANIMAL rights’ supporters welcomed yesterday a landmark case which saw a Nicosia man jailed for neglecting his animals and for animal cruelty. The Nicosia district...
View ArticleWhat the troika terms are, people's responses to agreement
The announcement of the preliminary deal between Cyprus and the troika was followed by reports concerning the terms. These have not all been officially confirmed.Labour Minister Sotiroulla Charalambous...
View ArticleAll measures ‘target civil servants’
Author: George Psyllides CIVIL servants union PASYDY yesterday said the terms of a bailout were a massacre for its members, who had been unfairly targeted, and suggested that some may be...
View ArticleOur View: Construction workers in no position to strike
CONSTRUCTION workers, infuriated by employers’ efforts to change the collective agreements governing their terms and conditions of work, called a 48-hour strike to underline their intention to put up a...
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Preliminary deal is struck
Author: George Psyllides THE European Commission yesterday said Cyprus had taken an important step towards a full agreement on a bailout programme after achieving decisive progress in discussions with...
View ArticleHow to salvage President’s standing
Mr Christofias’ political and public reputation is in tatters. As the Green party leader Ioannou Panayiotou pointed out: the President had no idea where Mari was or the amount of the bailout loan...
View ArticleCultural attractions a source of revenue not being fully exploited
I would like to draw attention to some of the finer cultural attributes of Cyprus that, over years, may provide financial interest that could potentially generate millions of euros.Cyprus has 10...
View ArticlePurchasing fiasco sabotages flat sale
Naturally l feel sorry for Cyprus these days, but an English pal of mine, who had transfered 70,000 euros to a bank in Paphos to buy a flat that was for sale a year ago for 150,000 euros, emailed me...
View ArticleNeverending Paphos works an unacknowledged source of pain
When the road works in Paphos are at their height, the disturbance to local communities and householders is beyond description. Whole areas are blighted for weeks and months on end, with diversions...
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Did we ever think it could happen here?
Author: Alexandra Anastassiades, Bejay Browne, Peter Stevenson, Christos Theodorides The figures speak for themselves. In Nicosia 1397 families are now receiving regular food packages to keep food on...
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Operation bailout: the dramatic backstage scenes
Author: Makarios Droushiotis CYPRUS has been saved from bankruptcy at what was literally the eleventh hour following a saga starting last weekend and culminating on Thursday noon.The slide down the...
View ArticleUnions ire
WORKERS are not under obligation to commit to possible plans that will harm social cohesion and collective agreements, a workers’ union said yesterday. Representing civil servants and employees and...
View ArticleDISY pledge
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Nicos Anastasiades said yesterday he will respect the will of the people in regards to the Cyprus problem if he is elected. The DISY leader was addressing the central committee...
View ArticleFM on travels
FOREIGN minister Erato Kozakou-Marocoullis is due to visit Skopje as the presiding head of the general affairs council.Marcoullis will have a number of meetings in Skopje – the capital of the former...
View ArticlePolice highlight family issues
POLICE officers yesterday handed out leaflets and showed educational films while a theatre group performed an ‘intervention’ to highlight family violence issues.The event at My Mall in Limassol took...
View ArticlePolice continue crackdown against illegal gambling
AUTHORITIES across the island have been carrying out a number of campaigns this week to combat crime, tackle illegal immigration and enforce anti-gambling legislation, police said. Police spokesman...
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Cyprus alone in spending all of EU funds
CYPRUS alone among all qualifying countries has managed to spend all the money paid by the EU cohesion funds, using about €54 million to fund big projects, the planning bureau said this week. The...
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Tales From the Coffeeshop Tof: the saviour of the institutions that screw...
WHO WOULD ever have thought that our Marxist-Leninist president would have agreed to all those unacceptable anti-worker measures proposed by the neo-liberal, colonialist loan sharks of the troika to...
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Hundreds surviving on food handouts
ALTHOUGH hundreds of families in Cyprus are currently dependant on food packages given by the church and municipalities in the weeks and months to come more and more people will be unable to provide...
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