New remand for plot suspects
Author: George Psyllides POLICE said yesterday they have in their hands a 2011 proclamation attacking state officials, including the attorney-general, thought to have been penned by a convict...
View ArticleUCY medical school back on track
Author: Stefanos Evripidou OPPOSITION DEPUTIES in the House Education Committee yesterday decided to withdraw the legal proposal freezing supplementary funds for the establishment of a Medical School...
View ArticleForged bus invoices worth €90,000
Author: George Psyllides POLICE have questioned two men linked to the Nicosia bus company OSEL, in connection with forged invoices worth around €90,000, as investigations continued yesterday into...
View ArticleDrug suppliers raking it in
Author: Poly Pantelides WHOLESALE buyers of illegal drugs in Cyprus might expect to pay up to €45,000 per kilo for cocaine, about €10,000 euros per kilo for cannabis, and up to €5,000 for a thousand...
View ArticleMed prices won’t fall until February
Author: Poly Pantelides THE HEALTH ministry’s promised price reductions in medicines will be effective some time within February due to a delay, health minister Androula Agrotou said yesterday.Agrotou...
View ArticleBlind alleys and the one-state solution
Author: Gwynne Dyer “EVERYBODY knows how this will end,” wrote Nahum Barnea, one of Israel’s best-known journalists, in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot recently. “There will be a bi-national (state).”...
View Article"Gas licence a sweetener for Russian loan”
Author: Elias Hazou LAST WEEK’S decision to award an offshore gas exploration licence to a consortium which includes a subsidiary of Gazprombank may have been a sweetener for a hoped-for Russian loan...
View ArticleOur View: The government is going the wrong way about achieving its objectives
AS IF THINGS were not bad enough for our bankrupt state and the insolvent banks, with the potential lenders playing hard-ball, we now have to start worrying about German objections to our low corporate...
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Troika to arrive on the island tomorrow
UPDATED 11.40 The government said today that the troika of international lenders will arrive in Cyprus tomorrow and negotiations on a financial aid package will resume on Friday."The government has...
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Americans hand Obama a second term, challenges await
Author: Steve Holland and John Whitesides President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among voters about his handling of the U.S. economy to score a...
View ArticleMan critical after being run over
AN 18-YEAR-OLD man was left fighting for his life yesterday after being run over by a motorist on a busy Limassol street.The accident happened around 9am on Archbishop Makarios III Avenue. Police said...
View ArticleCyprus and Ukraine sign eight bilateral agreements
CYPRUS and Ukraine yesterday signed eight cooperation agreements during an official visit here by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.The agreements are the culmination of extended talks between the...
View ArticleGreece, Cyprus and Israel to set up working groups
CYPRUS, Greece and Israel yesterday agreed to set up two working groups to expedite cooperation in energy matters.The agreement was struck in Nicosia at a meeting between Commerce Minister Neoclis...
View ArticleHouse passes law on bank bond guarantee
PARLIAMENT last night passed a law allowing the state to guarantee bank bonds and new loans, in a move designed to provide credit to the struggling economy.It comes two days after the scheme was...
View ArticleStabbed Turkish Cypriot to sue the state
Author: Stefanos Evripidou THE VICTIM of a racist attack is suing the state for breaching his human rights following the violent clashes that took place at the Rainbow Festival in Larnaca in 2010....
View ArticleJudges want exemption from pay cuts
SUPREME Court judges reportedly angered lawmakers yesterday after they asked for judges to be exempt from salary cuts imposed last year as part of an austerity package to shore up the ailing...
View Article‘Without measures downward spiral will continue’
Author: George Psyllides THE coming year will be very difficult for the Cypriot economy, the finance ministry said yesterday, as it stressed the urgent need for measures to reverse the downward...
View ArticleKassinis says quitting state hydrocarbons company
Author: Elias Hazou ENERGY chief Solon Kassinis has called it quits from the state hydrocarbons company KRETYK, citing concerns over the company’s role and scope.It later emerged, however, that...
View ArticleOur View: Why the sudden about face on medical school?
IN THE END populism triumphed at the House education committee, as opposition deputies decided to withdraw the bill that would have frozen the budget for the establishment of a medical school at the...
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Power cuts keep EAC and police busy
Author: Peter Stevenson MAJOR power cuts caused by separate problems hit the capital Nicosia, Limassol and other areas yesterday causing chaos on the roads for hours, and keeping police and fire...
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