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Store robbed in broad daylight (updated)
A JEWELLERY store in Ayia Napa was robbed in broad daylight on Friday by three people who had gone into the store pretending to be customers, police said. According to Famagusta Police spokesman...
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Obama holds out over Syria air strikes at G20 summit
By Steve Gutterman and Matt Spetalnick U.S. President Barack Obama defied pressure to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria at a summit on Friday which left world leaders divided on the conflict...
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Gas well glitch not unusual
IT WAS not unusual for a glitch to delay flaring a natural gas well, officials said on Friday, as a production test at an offshore field was underway. The drill stem test (DST) is a simulated...
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Olympic bidders locked in tight race ahead of 2020 vote
By Karolos Grohmann THE race for three cities hoping to land the 2020 summer Olympics will go down to the wire after two years of campaigning as Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo grapple with their own...
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‘The public must feel safe’
By Peter Stevenson THE POLICE will today launch a concerted two month war on all forms of crime, both organised and non-organised, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday. The minister gave...
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Recession in Cyprus accelerates to 5.9 per cent
The Cypriot economy shrank by 5.9 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2013, marking its eighth consecutive quarterly GDP reduction, figures released by the Cyprus Statistical Service...
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Extended shop hours proclaimed a success
By Stefanos Evripidou EXTENDED OPENING hours and Sunday openings has been warmly welcomed by Cypriot consumers, and has helped create employment while injecting money into the banking system and state...
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Attorney-general steps down ahead of time (Updated)
By Stefanos Evripidou ATTORNEY-GENERAL Petros Clerides has submitted his resignation, the government revealed yesterday. Clerides, 67, will be leaving his post on September 15. Reports said he would...
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Art world mourns passing of Ioannis
ARTIST IOANNIS (Antoniou), who died on Thursday aged 58 following a serious health problem, was buried on Saturday in Limassol. Ioannis was born in Famagusta in 1955 and was educated in France. He was...
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Visiting Cypriot drowns off Dhekelia
A 70-YEAR MAN, Pantelis Adamides, was found drowned on Friday afternoon at Xylotymbou fishing shelter, within Dhekelia sovereign base area (SBA). Adamides, a Cypriot who resided permanently in the UK,...
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Vettel on pole for Italian Grand Prix
By Alan Baldwin Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel seized pole position for the Italian Grand Prix and left his title rivals trailing with Red Bull locking out the front row in qualifying on...
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Greek premier says economic pain will ease next year
By Lefteris Papadimas and Karolina Tagaris Greece’s economic pain will ease in 2014 as it exits a recession that will be less acute than forecast this year, helping the country meet its bailout...
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World Bank to help with civil service reform
A WORLD Bank team is due to arrive to Cyprus this Monday as part of an agreement to help reform the public service, ahead of a reform action plan to be announced by the president next week....
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Steep decline in fruit bat numbers
By Maria Gregoriou BAT LOVERS invited to join a special bat-watching event to celebrate European Bat Night this Friday will be lucky if they encounter Cyprus’ only species of fruit bat. Numbers of...
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Free, but far too costly
A. Dinou writing about bird fatalities from wind turbines (Sunday Mail, September 1) has got the facts completely wrong. There are millions of birds (and bats) killed by turbines, and relatively few by...
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An alternate look at Cyprus rent owed
Following the interesting findings of Dr. Alan Waring, “Does the UK Owe Cyprus rent for the SBAs?”, published in the Cyprus Mail recently, it could be interesting to see if in fact Britain also owes...
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Beware phony job ads
Enough is enough. While Cyprus’ economy is indeed struggling and unemployment increasing, it’s time people knew what they are up against when it comes to all the jobs posted by local recruitment...
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Blame game over Mari muddied the key issues
The four stages that Johan van den Kerkhof uses to analyse the causes of the Mari disaster are alright up to a point. However, his Stage 2 (The storage of the containers) and Stage 3 (The blast) omit...
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How the banking sector was destroyed
Below is an excerpt of the written statement, submitted by the former governor of the Central Bank Athanasios Orphanides to the investigative committee for the economy last month, in which he gives a...
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Russian nominees for bank board
THE MOSCOW Times, a daily Russian English language newspaper, has taken a closer look into the Russian names due to compete for a place on the Bank of Cyprus’ (BoC) board of directors. The Bank of...
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