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Casinos closer to a reality after Parliament vote (updated)
JULY 9TH, 2015By George Psyllides Parliament on Thursday approved the creation of a casino resort in Cyprus plus four more so-called satellite establishments, in a move the island...
House passes bill for overhaul of teacher appointments
JULY 9TH, 2015By Angelos Anastasiou A government bill for the drastic overhaul of the system of appointing teachers in public education was voted into law on Thursday, with 31...
House passes bill on CSE transfers
JULY 9TH, 2015A government-inspired bill affording the finance minister the right to authorise secondments of staff from the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) to the Cyprus Securities and...
Hardliners heap scorn on Anastasiades’ vision for a united Cyprus
JULY 9TH, 2015By Elias Hazou The rejectionist parties on Thursday heaped scorn on President Nicos Anastasiades’ vision of a reunited island as it was relayed to a group of...
Groups combating illegal bird trapping try to find a common way forward
JULY 9TH, 2015A number of different organisations combating illegal bird trapping got together this week at the Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre for a workshop organised by...
Rising Formula 3 star receives army deferral
JULY 9TH, 2015By Andria Kades Formula 3 racer Vladimiros Tziortzis received a six-month deferral of military conscription on Thursday after a public plea to President Nicos...
Londoners suffer as strike shuts Tube (Updated)
JULY 9TH, 2015A 24-hour strike by staff and drivers brought the British capital's underground rail network to a halt and left millions of Londoners struggling to get to work on...
Taking the library to the beach
JULY 9TH, 2015By Annette Chrysostomou In a new twist to holiday reading, on Saturday and Sunday in Limassol the ‘library is going to the beach’ as part of an event organised by...
Teen killer’s lawyer blames the system during mitigation hearing
JULY 9TH, 2015By Evie Andreou A lawyer for 17-year-old Alexis Anastasiou, found guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of British Cypriot Michael Antony Louis Mina, 22, in...
Court ruling creates new ball game for IPC, leading lawyer says
JULY 9TH, 2015By Angelos Anastasiou The significance of the recent ruling of a Turkish Cypriot court lies in the elevation of the matter from the level of the Immovable Property...
EU adopts €52.6m investment package for Cypriot fisheries sector
JULY 9TH, 2015The European Commission has adopted a key investment package for the Cypriot maritime, fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The roughly €53m available for the period...
Greek owned Cyprus banks likely to be taken over
JULY 9TH, 2015By Stelios Orphanides The subsidiaries of the four Greek banks operating in Cyprus are likely to change hands in the coming days as sweeping changes in the Greek...
Cabin crew injured during turbulence (updated)
JULY 9TH, 2015Two flight attendants were being treated in hospital after suffering injuries during turbulence on a flight from the UK to Cyprus on Wednesday evening, police...
Cyprus’ longest-serving lifer demands parole or death
JULY 9TH, 2015By Elias Hazou Cyprus’ longest-serving lifer Panayiotis Kafkaris has asked to be put to death unless his request for parole is re-examined. In a letter dated...
Our View: Parents must join the fight against half-baked education reform
JULY 9TH, 2015AS IF THE government’s half-baked - verging on the ridiculous - attempt at reforming the existing, free-for-all appointment system for teachers, was not bad enough, it...
Greece: it only requires three miracles
JULY 9TH, 2015By Gwynne Dyer IN THEORY, it could still work. It only requires three miracles. Maybe the resounding “no” to the eurozone’s terms for a third bail-out in...
State pledge on Larnaca after Zenon deal dies
JULY 9TH, 2015By Andria Kades The government insisted on Wednesday it wanted to do everything possible to develop the Larnaca marina, after negotiations with Zenon consortium -...
Public invited to have their say on fuel pricing
JULY 9TH, 2015By Evie Andreou THE ministry of energy has given the public the chance to make suggestions on fuel pricing policies following widespread criticism from the public and...
Shacolas defends Limni development
JULY 9TH, 2015THE CYPRUS Limni Resorts and GolfCourses Plc, responsible for the Limni resort near Polis has hit back after a warning from the auditor general that Cyprus is at risk of...
Public urged to join mosquito fight
JULY 9TH, 2015PEOPLE can help fight mosquitoes, the Limassol Municipality said on Wednesday in the wake of unstable weather which has created favourable conditions for the annoying...PROFILE & REVIEWS
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Germany's Schaeuble: Greece needs debt haircut but we can't help
JULY 9TH, 2015By John O'Donnell and Balazs Koranyi Germany's finance minister conceded for the first time on Thursday that a write-off of some of Europe's loans to Greece might be...
Feel the music
JULY 9TH, 2015By Maria Gregoriou Who said Mondays are boring? Well, if that was the case it sure isn’t anymore, because on this coming Monday the British band Rudimental will be...
Syria's neighbours now host 4 million of its refugees, UN says
JULY 9TH, 2015The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday, adding that the total was on course to reach...Londoners suffer as strike shuts Tube (Updated)
JULY 9TH, 2015A 24-hour strike by staff and drivers brought the British capital's underground rail network to a halt and left millions of Londoners struggling to get to work on...
Capital Intelligence downgrades five Greek banks (Update 2)
JULY 9TH, 2015By Stelios Orphanides Capital Intelligence, the Limassol-based rating agency said that it lowered the financial strength rating of Greece’s Alpha Bank and National...
IMF says Greece spillovers limited, Schaeuble wants to see action before support
JULY 9TH, 2015Greece is a small part of the world economy, and its possible exit from the euro zone should have limited impact on the rest of the world, the IMF's chief economist said...SPORT
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