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Federer battles back to beat Youzhny for Halle title
By Karolos Grohmann Roger Federer clinched his first title of the season before the start of his Wimbledon defence when he battled back from a set down to beat Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 (5) 6-3 6-4...
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Murray Recovers From Slip To Win Queen’s Title
Andy Murray gave his fans a fright before recovering to beat Croatia’s Marin Cilic to win the Aegon Championships for the third time at Queen’s Club on Sunday. The world number two won a rain-delayed...
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Anastasiades: no intention of leaving eurozone
By Stefanos Evripidou THE EUROGROUP’s bailout decision on Cyprus may have left a bad taste in his mouth but President Nicos Anastasiades remained adamant yesterday that the country’s future remains in...
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Bill seeks to bypass IPC for those in need
By Stefanos Evripidou INTERIOR MINISTER Socratis Hasikos will take a proposal to cabinet tomorrow giving Greek Cypriot owners of property in the occupied areas the right to buy and sell their...
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Central Bank defends its use of ELA
THE CENTRAL Bank of Cyprus (CBC) defended itself yesterday against criticism that it authorised gratuitous emergency liquidity to Cypriot banks, thereby saddling the lenders with unnecessary additional...
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Deadlock over BoC layoff scheme
By Elias Hazou NO WHITE smoke emerged from the Presidential Palace yesterday after a high-level meeting to discuss, among others, an early retirement scheme for Bank of Cyprus (BoC) employees....
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Legal challenge over BoC restructuring
By Elias Hazou A FORMER Bank of Cyprus (BoC) board member is mounting a legal challenge against the decision to place the island’s largest lender under administration. In an application filed with the...
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Biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil
By Todd Benson and Asher Levine As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor...
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End of the line for state car abuse
By Stefanos Evripidou THE CHAIRMAN of the House Finance Committee yesterday said there was clearly “abuse” of the system which provides luxury vehicles to former and present officials in the wider...
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Our View: No surprises that outside forces being allowed to decide CY fate
SUCCESSIVE governments appear to have one way of dealing with difficult problems that require unpopular decisions – avoiding taking any decision until conditions provide a solution, usually the worst...
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CY unions aghast as layoff letters sent
By Stefanos Evripidou UNIONS WERE up in arms yesterday after the Cyprus Airways (CY) board decided to send out redundancy letters to 203 employees, despite agreeing earlier in the morning to postpone...
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Murder in Aglandjia
A 78 year old butcher from Aglandjia was found stabbed in his butcher shop earlier this morning by passersby. The victim, George Stavrou died on his way to the hospital. Police have cordoned off the...
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Family sees electricity bill drastically reduced with net metering
By Peter Stevenson NET metering will lower electricity bills and increase the production of energy from renewable energy sources (RES), Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou told deputies...
View ArticleCY staff protest in vain
By Stefanos Evripidou THE HOUSE Finance Committee held a long session behind closed doors yesterday to discuss the acute problems facing national carrier Cyprus Airways (CY) as airline staff protested...
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Butcher was killed in frenzied attack
By Peter Stevenson A 77-YEAR-OLD Nicosia butcher was stabbed 35 times in a frenzied knife attack inside the walk-in freezer in his Aglandjia shop in the early hours of yesterday. Georgios Stavrou was...
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United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
By Mark Felsenthal, Warren Strobel and Hamid Shalizi The United States and the Taliban raised hopes for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and...
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Shattering glass at new ThOC building a source of concern
THE HOUSE Watchdog Committee will be probing certain construction problems at the new building of the Cyprus theatre organisation (ThOC) and why it cost more than expected, it emerged yesterday. DISY...
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Our View: Decision on judges’ salaries was wholly predictable
AS WAS expected the district court judges won the appeal against the cuts to their salaries, the Supreme Court ruling last week that this was in violation of Article 158.3 of the constitution. The...
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Marfin-Laiki merger cost Cyprus €4b
By George Psyllides THE ISLAND’S banking system incurred losses of at least €4.0 billion through the merger of Greek lender Marfin Egnatia with the now defunct Laiki Bank, MPs heard yesterday. A Greek...
View ArticleState needs to act on online grooming of children
Another incident of online grooming and child pornography through social networks recently came to the surface again highlighting the dangers lurking on the internet. Along with the increased use of...
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