Financial assistance for fire-stricken areas to be dispensed next week
Direct financial assistance to those who suffered damage to their properties in the massive July 3 blaze will begin being dispensed as of next week,...
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Cabinet approves financial package for families of four men who perished in fire (Updated)
By Jonathan Shkurko and Evie Andreou The labour ministry has announced it will financially compensate the families of the four Egyptian seasonal workers who lost...
€2.5m in crop damage compensation for farmers
Farmers will receive €2.5 million in compensation for crop damage following the approval of the cabinet on Wednesday. A total of 875 farmers will benefit...
Legal moves to compensate 1974 refugees
Court case seeks restitution for losses out of the public purse By Elias Hazou A little-reported-on filing to the administrative court made by a former...
Ministry releases details of the aid owners of collapsed Pissouri homes can expect
The interior ministry will grant monetary assistance to Pissouri residents who were forced to leave their homes after they became uninhabitable due to landslides so...
Owners of vineyards damaged by fire to be compensated (updated)
Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Tuesday announced that producers whose vineyards have been destroyed by the massive fire that burned around 2.2 square kilometres of...
‘Sunshine dream in ruins’: Pissouri homeowners’ plight features in UK press
The ongoing plight of homeowners in Pissouri whose homes are crumbling due to a landslide featured in the UK press this week, in an extensive...
Pissouri residents now fear electrocution
Residents of the Limnes area in Pissouri, where a continuous and accelerating land slippage has caused homes to crumble, now face the added danger of...
Property commission to return two properties to refugee
The Immovable Property Commission (IPC) has decided to return two properties in Koma Tou Yialou in the north to their Greek Cypriot refugee owner and...
Auditor-general opposes compensation for Limnes homeowners
The state has no obligation to compensate the homeowners of properties damaged or destroyed in a destructive and ongoing landslip in the Limnes area of...
MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes
Lawmakers on Thursday again called for a review of a deal whereby the state compensates Hermes – the operator of the two international airports in...
Ill-treated prison inmate fails to collect compensation
Cyprus said on Monday it had taken all necessary steps to pay a former prison inmate the compensation he was awarded by the European Court...
Refugees seek European justice after losing compensation claim
A refugee couple who sued the state for compensation but lost, vowed on Wednesday to take their case all the way to the European Court...
Employers censure demands for co-op staff compensation (updated)
Employers association OEV said Friday it was unacceptable and an insult for co-op bank unions to demand up to €200,000 in compensation for staff who...
Holiday fraudster caught on video doing ‘Gangam Style’ while ‘ill’
A British holidaymaker to Cyprus who was granted £6,000 in compensation after claiming he suffered food poisoning at his Protaras hotel was ordered by a...
Stricken farmers to receive 50% of compensation immediately
The government will reimburse fruit producers whose crops were destroyed in the recent hail storms, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Wednesday. The minister said...
Industrial accident victims go years without compensation
Many victims of industrial accidents have been left for decades without compensation because their employers were uninsured, chairman of the Association of Insurance Companies...
North unable to compensate Greek Cypriot owner of ex-Nadir hotel
The north’s immovable property commission (IPC) has agreed to compensate the legal owners of the well-known Jasmine Court Hotel and Casino in Kyrenia to the...
Lactalis offers salmonella compensation, French govt says probe continues
By Richard Lough France welcomed dairy group Lactalis’ pledge to compensate victims of a Salmonella contamination in its baby milk on Sunday, but said...
A 50-year-old fight for compensation
By Andria Kades Where the ancient ruins of Amathus lie in Limassol, there stems a land dispute over compensation dating back so long that sons...