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Accountability pledge from new cabinet
Author: Stefanos Evripidou PRESIDENT NICOS Anastasiades yesterday vowed to be unrelenting against acts of corruption and bad governance and called on his newly formed cabinet to abide by a code of...
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Empowering youth to fight the crisis
Author: Maria-Christina Doulami YOUTH unemployment is undoubtedly one of the greatest consequences of the economic crisis, and nowhere more so than for the hundreds of young people finishing their...
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Asbestos scar slowly fading away
Author: Peter Stevenson UNTIL the 1990s, the pretty drive up to the Troodos mountains was always marred by the grey, barren hillside scar at Amiantos, the price of 84 years of asbestos mining...
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Fine dodgers pay up before going on cruiseDOZENS of people owing the state thousands of euros in unpaid fines were caught on a Greece-bound cruise ship moored in Limassol port, police said...
View ArticlePolice confirm Madeleine lookalike sighting
Author: Poly Pantelides A LOOKALIKE of missing British girl Madeleine McCann who disappeared aged three during a family holiday in Portugal six years ago was recently spotted in the village of...
View ArticleElderly woman says she was cheated out of millions in land compensation
LARNACA District Court yesterday issued an eight day remand for three men in relation to defrauding millions from an elderly Turkish Cypriot woman who said she had been short-changed over her...
View ArticleAKEL accuses president of turnaround on privatisation
Author: Poly Pantelides PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said yesterday employees of semi-government organisations should not worry about their jobs amid the growing prospects of privatising some...
View ArticleSarris confident of allaying money-laundering fears
Author: Poly Pantelides FINANCE Minister Michalis Sarris yesterday left for Brussels where he is due to present Cyprus’ proposal on a money-laundering audit of Cyprus’ banking system during tomorrow’s...
View ArticleOur view: EU partners must not make us pay the price of the AKEL years
TALK ABOUT a possible haircut of deposits of Cypriot banks has become a very fashionable topic of debate among EU officials and politicians. A day rarely seems to go by without someone making a...
View ArticleTales from the Coffeshop: Amid the horse-trading, cabinet remained gloriously...
Author: Patroclos WE WERE overjoyed to see our dear Fuhrer, Nice Nik, sweep triumphantly into power last Sunday ending the Terrible Tof tyranny and freeing us from the AKEL yoke that had threatened to...
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Fury over airport’s boarding ‘pens’
Author: Bejay Browne ANGRY passengers have dubbed as ‘holding pens’ the outdoor areas at Paphos airport where they complain they have been left in all weathers, sometimes for more than an hour, before...
View ArticleAuthorities detain Syrian family who sought to reach Sweden
Author: Poly Pantelides FEARING that asylum seekers in Cyprus are detained indefinitely, a Syrian family tried to sneak in and out of the country on fake passports to seek asylum elsewhere but were...
View ArticleArchbishop comes out in favour of privatisations
Author: Poly Pantelides THROWING his weight behind the privatisation of state assets, Archbishop Chrysostomos II yesterday said he believed privatising semi-governmental organisations (SGOs) was the...
View ArticleAyia Napa elects new mayor
Author: Maria Gregoriou YIANNIS Karousos, a 34-year-old municipal councillor of seven years and member of various local committees, was officially proclaimed Ayia Napa mayor yesterday.In a service at...
View ArticleNew MPs replace those who have headed to the cabinet
Author: Peter Stevenson Six DISY members were sworn into parliament yesterday to fill President Nicos Anastasiades’ seat in the House and those of other MPs who were made ministers last week.Andreas...
View ArticlePort fraud probe at an ‘advanced stage’
Author: Elias Hazou AN ONGOING probe into suspected massive fraud at the port of Limassol could soon yield arrest warrants, police have said.Launched three weeks ago, the criminal investigation...
View ArticleKyprianou: army was responsible for storage of Mari munitions
FORMER President Demetris Christofias had argued in favour of seizing Iranian munitions in January 2009, but subsequent responsibility for safe storage of the cargo lay with military authorities, a...
View ArticleMoU should have been signed months ago
Author: George Psyllides CYPRUS should have signed a bailout deal months ago, a top economist said yesterday, ahead of a Eurogroup meeting that discussed the island’s application.“We have taken more...
View ArticleCyprus Airways 2012 losses near 56 million euros
NATIONAL carrier Cyprus Airways (CY) more than doubled its losses last year to €55.8 million, hit by falling passenger figures and freight earnings, the company said yesterday.The airline, which is...
View ArticleOur view: No face-saving solution for Anastasiades over privatisation
WE NEED to get over this irrational fixation with keeping the semi-governmental organisations (SGOs) in state hands. There is not a single, rational, economic argument to support this fixation...
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