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‘They should have done this a long time ago’
By Poly Pantelides Despite a bit of initial grumbling about the changes in the health system and the introduction of hospital charges on Thursday, most visitors, to Nicosia General at least, were...
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AG to appeal what relatives saw as lenient sentences in Mari case
By Poly Pantelides THE ATTORNEY-general said yesterday he was appealing against the leniency of the sentences handed out to a former minister and three senior firemen for the deaths of 13 people in the...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Bankers and the re-invention of history
By Patroclos AT LAST our government got a well-deserved pat on the back from the troika for effectively implementing the conditions of the memorandum and meeting the targets that it set. Our...
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Our View: This union-sponsored rule of mediocrity must stop
ON MONDAY the bank employees’ union ETYK issued a circular to its members informing them that it was proposing wage cuts at all the banks (except the Bank of Cyprus which had already implemented them),...
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Is there political manoeuvring to control the gas?
By Elias Hazou THE GOVERNMENT aims to appoint a ‘fully political board’ to the national oil and gas corporation, giving it total control over the entity, the Sunday Mail is told. The coming shake-up at...
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US extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious
By Tabassum Zakaria The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution on Sunday after an al Qaeda threat that U.S. lawmakers said was the most serious...
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Weekend fires destroy trees, wild shrub
Thirteen and a half hectares of wild shrub and trees were destroyed by three separate fires on Sunday, which were all eventually put under control before midnight. Eighteen vehicles were scrambled at...
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The virtue of boredom
You might tire of your children moaning about being bored over the long summer holiday, but it can actually be good for them says ALIX NORMAN Type ‘I’m’ into Google and the first search that pops up...
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India says 5 soldiers killed in attack on Pakistan border
By Sanjeev Miglani and John Chalmers Five Indian soldiers were killed in an attack along the disputed border with Pakistan in the Kashmir region, a senior Indian official said on Tuesday, in an attack...
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Still in the dark on Premier League coverage
SUBSCRIBERS of local pay channel LTV remain in the dark as to whether they will be able to watch English Premier League football from next week. The channel, which no longer shows Formula One racing,...
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‘Best solution’ being sought in BoC dilemma
By George Psyllides THE CENTRAL Bank of Cyprus (CBC) will hold talks with interested parties in a bid to come up with the best solution regarding the shares held by defunct Laiki Bank in the Bank of...
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Third medical school in the works
By Maria Gregoriou THE EUROPEAN University Cyprus has been given approval by the education ministry to start a medical school in the coming year, making this the first private university to provide a...
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Plans dropped for animal welfare police
By Maria Gregoriou THE GOVERNMENT has dropped a plan by the previous administration for the creation of a police unit for animal welfare. The news was broken to animal lovers yesterday by Justice...
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Berlusconi: down but not yet out
By Gwynne Dyer “I WILL not go into exile like Bettino Craxi was forced to,” said Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi as he awaited the outcome of his final appeal against a four-year prison...
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Sometimes life calls for mutiny
By Maria-Christina Doulami IT IS often said that the Cypriot donkey has a greater tolerance than any other animal. And it tends to be admired by others, because you rarely see an animal endure so...
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Our View: Reaction to cat incident was out of proportion
BETWEEN 200 and 300 people gathered on Saturday evening to protest outside the Aglandjia tavern, Steki tou Kosti, against the mistreatment of a cat by members of staff the previous weekend. It was a...
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‘All of Paphos under one roof’
By Bejay Browne AS THE latest jobless figures were unveiled yesterday showing that 48,000 people were now unemployed, Paphos, which has been hardest hit, is hoping that opening the biggest mall in...
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Climate change as a human rights and justice issue
By Mary Robinson Global warming and climate change present humankind with one of the greatest challenges in the history of our species. While there is now broad acknowledgment of this fact, for those...
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Church restorations proceeding well, say antiquities department
RESTORATION works being carried out at two Cypriot Middle Byzantine monuments both situated in refugee communities: Ayia Marina Kandou in Limassol and Panayia Kofinou in the Larnaca district have made...
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POVEK moves to appeal decree at Supreme Court
By Peter Stevenson SMALL shopkeepers’ union POVEK will be taking its demand to revoke the decree on new shop opening hours to the Supreme Court it was revealed yesterday. The union’s general-secretary,...
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