Our View: Why were Alvarez and Marsal given so many jobs by the CBC?
THE TESTIMONY given by former executive of the Bank of Cyprus Nicholas Karydas to the investigative committee for the economy may have been primarily intended...
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Our View: Longer opening hours not likely to help in current economic climate
THE SHOP OPENING hours of the tourist areas will apply to all of Cyprus from tomorrow. In other words all shops would be able to...
Our View: Mari victims’ families right to believe justice has not been done
THE LARNACA criminal court may have found four of the six defendants in the Mari case guilty but the overriding impression among the relatives of...
Our View: Government would do well to ignore AKEL barbs, rhetoric
AFTER A four-month absence from public life, former president Demetris Christofias decided that he needed to get back into the political mix. He used his...
Our View: Business and political leaders stuck to cowardly code of silence
IT WAS fascinating to hear the answers given by the former senior executive of the Bank of Cyprus Yiannis Kypris to the investigative committee for...
Our View: Extradition hurdle exposes our irrational lawmaking
IT IS VERY difficult to understand some of the laws that are made by the legislature. The law about the extradition of Cypriot nationals against...
Our View: Government must learn to better manage expectations
SOME ANGRY words were exchanged between government spokesman Christos Stylianides and a radio show presenter yesterday morning about President Anastasiades’ meeting with Mario Draghi in...
Our View: Does the government want the real culprit to walk free?
IT WAS inevitable that the investigation into the causes of the collapse of the economy would degenerate into a legalistic issue. Everything in Cyprus seems...
Our View: BoC backed into expensive corner by weak government
THE BOARD of the Bank of Cyprus failed to secure the consent of the bank employees union Etyk for the very generous ‘voluntary’ retirement compensation...
Our View: Any base agreement with Russia incompatible with NATO cooperation
MUCH HAS been written in the Cyprus press recently about Russia’s request to use the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos. This was reportedly the...
