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Noble drilling delay ‘normal’
Author: Stefanos Evripidou NOBLE ENERGY has pushed back the start of appraisal drilling in its Block 12 offshore concession in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), raising questions as to whether it...
View ArticleGas ‘an opportunity to get it right’
Author: Stefanos Evripidou THE DISCOVERY of natural gas is a “once in a lifetime opportunity to get it right” for Cyprus, according to one leading international economist. Despite the doom and gloom...
View ArticleJudges willing to ‘give up’ some of their salaries but reject cuts
Author: Elias Hazou DISTRICT court judges yesterday argued before the Supreme Court that they should be exempt from salary and benefit cutbacks because their earnings are protected under the...
View ArticleConcern over undiagnosed HIV cases
Author: Poly Pantelides HEALTH minister Androula Agrotou yesterday said she was concerned over the fact that two underage boys who were in Cyprus until the summer carried the HIV virus unbeknown to...
View ArticleUrgent appeal to help Paphos needy
Author: Bejay Browne AN urgent appeal for donations to help needy families living in Paphos villages has been made by a group of volunteers.More than 250 families living outside the boundaries of...
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Ten years and 20 million crossings
Author: Poly Pantelides GREEK Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have become less prejudiced, more trusting of each other and more willing to live together in the ten years that the checkpoints have been...
View ArticleIPC applications jump 30 per cent in six months
Author: Stefanos Evripidou THE NUMBER of Greek Cypriot refugees seeking compensation for occupied properties in the north has increased by almost 30 per cent – nearly 1,000 new applications - in the...
View ArticlePrince Harry winds down in Cyprus after Afghan deployment
PRINCE Harry is currently in Cyprus for a much needed alcoholic drink on his way back to Britain from his twenty week deployment to Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot. It is common practice and...
View ArticleFutile protests over state sell-off
Author: George Psyllides THE government will fight to prevent the privatisation of public companies, the spokesman said yesterday, although it was clear that the matter was out of their hands since a...
View ArticleOur View: The government is still playing its populist games
LISTENING to the comments made by European finance ministers with regard to Cyprus, before and after Monday night’s Euro group meeting, two things were clear. First, they were exasperated with the...
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‘Cyprus woes could hurt eurozone’
Author: Elias Hazou and Annika Breidthardt CYPRUS’ financial problems could still derail fragile confidence in the euro zone that the bloc fought hard to regain in 2012, European Central Bank board...
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Building works grind to a halt
Author: Poly Pantelides CONSTRUCTION work stopped across the board yesterday during the first day of an islandwide strike over job losses and insecurity in the sector. The strike is due to continue...
View ArticleInvestors want Popular chairman to resign
THE investors association (PASEHA) yesterday demanded the resignation of the Popular Bank chairman, accusing him of allowing the lender’s legal adviser to also represent a flagging supermarket chain...
View ArticleOutopos livens up election TV
Author: Elias Hazou ODDBALL presidential candidate Costas Kyriakou, aka Outopos, was on a roll on Wednesday, using the ‘F’ word while telling Cypriots why they should vote for him.But for the bad...
View ArticleTrans woman was placed in men’s holding cells
THE POLICE force’s practice of holding trans women in men’s holding cells on the rationale they “only want to be women but are men” has prompted a non-governmental organisation to file a complaint on...
View ArticleChurch asked to mediate for Russian loan
Author: George Psyllides THE government has asked the Church to mediate so that a loan application to Russia is viewed favourably, Archbishop Chrysostomos said yesterday.The archbishop said he had...
View ArticleDebenhams confirms Avenue closure
THE Debenhams Avenue store in the middle of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue will shut down, an announcement confirmed yesterday. The brief announcement cited “commercial and financial reasons” leading to the...
View ArticleHospital wrongly told woman she had miscarried
THE health minister has ordered an investigation into a complaint that doctors at a state hospital had wrongly diagnosed a woman as having had a miscarriage, it emerged yesterday.Health Minister...
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A €150m boost for the economy
Author: Elias Hazou THE GOVERNMENT sealed a deal yesterday granting an Italian-Korean joint venture a concession to drill for hydrocarbons in three offshore blocks.Three separate agreements, one for...
View ArticleOur View: Britain has always had a different vision of the EU
PRIME Minister David Cameron’s speech on Europe may have been welcomed by Conservative backbenchers and British euro-sceptics but on the continent, understandably, it sparked a hostile reaction from...
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