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Foreign Ministry calls for urgent restoration of Apostolos Andreas
21-02-2012 18:27The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has underlined the need to ...
Communications Minister-Commissioners to discuss EU Presidency agenda
21-02-2012 18:26Minister of Communications and Works Efthymios Flourentzou will hold a ...
Comment: A New Strategic Role for Cyprus
21-02-2012 18:24
By Robert Ellis
The island of Cyprus has for centuries been ...
Relief vies with shame on streets of Athens
21-02-2012 17:44
Author: Lefteris Papadimas and Karolina Tagaris
Greeks resigned themselves on Tuesday to a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout that won their country a last-minute reprieve from bankruptcy at the price of a decade of austerity and humiliating foreign scrutiny of national finances.
Agreements among eurozone ministers during all-night talks in Brussels secured a second rescue package since 2010 in return for a new ro [...]
Tunisian parliament bloc proposes Islamic constitution
21-02-2012 17:41
Author: Tarek Amara
The third-largest party in Tunisia’s constituent assembly, charged with writing a new constitution, proposed on Monday a draft document based on Islamic law which will likely alarm the country's secularists.
The moderate Islamist Ennahda party won a 40 per cent share in the assembly, or 89 seats, in Tunisia’s first election since the ouster of Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali a year ago spark [...]
Turkish officials found negligent in Dink murder
21-02-2012 17:33
Negligence by Turkish state officials led to the 2007 killing of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and a flawed murder investigation undermined public trust in the security services, a report commissioned by the president has concluded.
Security officials failed to protect Dink despite warnings of a plot to kill him and the subsequent legal process exposed widespread structural problems and the need for reforms, the report said.
Last month, an Istanbul c [...]
Former Cyprus Finance Minister admits to “nepotism, cronyism and corruption”
21-02-2012 16:41I am sure most of you are unaware that there is a problem with corruption in Cyprus. Now that goes for both sides of the divide. Mr Stavrakis, the former Finance Minister has come out publicly and admitted the problem in the RoC. Yes I know, you had no idea, you thought all the people [...]
BoC takes €1.01 billion hit on Greek debt
21-02-2012 15:59
BANK of Cyprus (BoC), the island’s biggest lender, yesterday posted a €1.01 billion net loss for 2011 after taking provisions for a Greek sovereign debt swap.
BoC said the total impact of its participation in a voluntary swap of Greek government bonds with a 60 per cent impairment, amounted to €1.3 billion for 2011.
The nominal value of the Greek government bonds held by the group – after the write-down -- totalled €975 million at the end of December 2 [...]
If I had a hammer....I’d put it in my school bag?
21-02-2012 15:40
A 15-YEAR-OLD student from Paralimni hit one of his peers with a hammer in the morning sending him to hospital during a fight on school grounds.
The male students, both aged 15, were arguing on school grounds at a local high school in the Paralimni district of Famagusta during a break.
The argument escalated to a fist fight and one of them took a hammer out of his school bag, hitting the other boy on the head.
The attacked student went to Paralimni General H [...]
Eurozone ministers back 130bn-euro bailout for Greece
21-02-2012 11:29Eurozone finance ministers have reached agreement on a vital second ...
Greece and Cyprus to stand by each other during critical times
21-02-2012 11:29The message that Greece and Cyprus support each other and ...
Akfinans Bank | “I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it…” – Fawlty Towers
21-02-2012 10:37The evil that men do is a quotation from Act 3, scene two of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. (Mark Antony: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”] For those of us who did Shakespeare as part of our English Literature courses, we will remember this well. [...]
BARGAIN HUNTERS | Hot Deals – 21/2/2012
21-02-2012 06:57Bargain Hunter’s Hot Deals including a £25 compact 10MP camera, an underwater Pocket Camcorder for £79.99 and £300 off for a couple taking a Shearings Holiday Samsung W200 Full HD Waterproof Pocket Camcorder – £79.99 21 February Hotels.com – 10% off all bookings [Expires 25/2/2012] 21 February Sussex Oak Veneer Extending Dining Table – £149.40 [...]
Cyprus Property Victims | nothing much has changed in nearly 50 years
20-02-2012 07:46In David Carter’s book The Cyprus Tapes, John Aziz, the current owner of Lambousa Hotel, claimed that in the early 1970’s: “The Greek Cypriot authorities had imposed unfair restrictions on him and other Turkish Cypriots who wanted to be businessmen. First they would say. ‘Yes. John. You can build your hotel, but we must see [...]
North Cyprus Natural History | Hissed at by my Resident Chameleon
19-02-2012 10:19So, I was driving up my drive on the way back from my combined dog walk and Sunday morning shopping trip only to discover a large chameleon blocking my path. I got out and took advantage of the chameleon taking a breather as it rushed across my path in order to take a few photographs. [...]
