Another accolade for Kontides
CYPRUS' first-ever Olympic medal winner-cum national hero Pavlos Kontides yesterday received yet another accolade when he was presented with the House of Representatives emblem.Addressing the ceremony...
View ArticleFamous oceanographer comes to explore sea mountain
THE AMERICAN exploration vessel Nautilus has arrived on the island as part of an expedition to explore the Eratosthenes seamount, off the island’s south-western coast.On board the Nautilus, anchored...
View ArticlePolice seek help tracking down hooligans
ANORTHOSIS FC will play their next three European games behind closed doors and pay €50,000 as punishment, after their fans invaded the pitch and caused the abandonment of a fixture last week, European...
View ArticlePraise for Cyprus’ EU presidency
Author: Stefanos Evripidou CYPRUS HAS proved its doubters wrong by doing an “excellent job” in the first six weeks of its EU presidency, said Deputy Foreign Minister for Greece Demetris Kourkoulas...
View ArticlePost-Helios recommendations still not enforced
Author: Elias Hazou THE 'FLIGHT Safety Foundation South East Europe - Middle East - Cyprus' has expressed concern that, seven years after the Helios air disaster, not all recommendations pertaining...
View ArticleAttorney-general ponders chemical castration for child molesters
Author: Elias Hazou ATTORNEY-GENERAL Petros Clerides has proposed chemical castration as a means of protecting society from convicted child molesters.In an interview with daily Politis, published...
View ArticleAlcohol linked to two deaths
Author: Stefanos Evripidou TWO FOREIGNERS drowned and a third is believed to have died as a result of substance abuse in the last two days in the tourist resorts of Paphos and Ayia Napa. A...
View ArticleInquiry launched into diplomat’s role
Author: Stefanos Evripidou THE cabinet yesterday decided to launch an investigation into the involvement of the head of President Demetris Christofias’ diplomatic office in a potential multimillion...
View ArticleOur View: Municipalities should use funding crisis to demand independence
FOR SEVERAL months now mayors of the wider Nicosia area have been warning that their municipalities were fast running out of money. The drastic reduction of the state subsidy to local authorities,...
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Fires brought under control
Author: George Psyllides FIRE-fighters late yesterday afternoon brought under control a large blaze in Limassol, the last in a string of fires that started on Sunday, prompting the evacuation of two...
View Article‘Nautilus exploration nothing to with hydrocarbons’
Author: Jacqueline Agathocleous COMMERCE Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis yesterday said he was in the dark over press reports that American vessel EV Nautilus was exploring for uranium around 60 miles...
View ArticleCypriots stuck in Syria
CYPRIOTS visiting relatives in Syria are now stuck in the warring country, unable to get out, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.Antonis Theocharous, from the ministry’s crisis management department,...
View ArticleQuality of concrete to be examined
Author: Jacqueline Agathocleous COMMERCE Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis yesterday agreed to re-examine alterations made to the concrete standard last year which some experts claim has brought down the...
View ArticleFour months for football hooligan
Author: Poly Pantelides THE LARNACA district court yesterday sentenced a 20-year-old to four months in jail for taking part in a pitch invasion that caused a football game to be abandoned.Christos...
View ArticleThree children injured in drink-drive accident
THREE children in the back seat of a car driven by a 34-year-old under the influence of alcohol were injured on Sunday when the driver lost control of his car.The 34-year-old was over the legal...
View ArticleMotorbike rider killed in collision
GIORGOS Kamilaris, 25, was killed in Larnaca yesterday when his motorbike crashed with a car driven by a 20-year-old learner driver at about 2.45am.The learner driver was with a 40-year-old woman...
View ArticleBoC mulls loan-book swap
BANK of Cyprus (BoC) is looking into swapping part of its loan book in Greece with a Greek bank operating on the island as part of moves to strengthen its capital base, it said in a stock exchange...
View ArticleState will try to salvage Chinese deal
Author: George Psyllides THE government said yesterday it will try to salvage a multi-million deal with a Chinese investor who withdrew his interest in developing the old Larnaca airport building,...
View ArticleOur View: No surprise that Chinese deal has gone belly-up
IT’S NO surprise that the much-anticipated multi-million Chinese deal for the redevelopment of the old Larnaca airport appears to have come to an ignominious end, although the government said yesterday...
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Nadir faces jail after guilty verdict
FORMER fugitive Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir was facing jail last night after being convicted of plundering millions from his Polly Peck business empire.An Old Bailey jury found him guilty of...
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