Attorney-general denies overspending on expert advice
Attorney-General Costas Clerides on Friday rubbished claims that his office spent millions on experts to investigate the collapse of the economy, saying the accusations were...
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Workplace accidents have soared since crisis
The number of industrial accidents has risen 34.6 per cent since the economic crisis in 2013 with companies cutting corners to save on costs, it...
Russia says ready to work with N.Korea to resolve missile crisis
Moscow is prepared to work with Pyongyang to try to find a peaceful resolution to the North Korean missile crisis, the Russian Foreign ministry said...
Turkey seeks to cool Germany row, Berlin reviews arms requests (Update)
Turkey’s economy minister sought to calm rising tensions with Germany on Friday as Berlin said it was reviewing all applications for arms projects from Ankara. Tensions between...
Greek PM tells Merkel ‘wounds of crisis’ must be healed
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday his country was set for strong economic growth and this would help to...
Greek banks offer incentives to lure back ‘mattress’ cash
Greek banks are offering higher interest rates to attract back billions of euros that savers pulled out in cash last year, as lenders bid to...
Applications for company registrations back to pre-crisis levels
The number of applications for new company registrations rose in July 2016 to pre-March 2013 levels, registering an upward trend for the 11th consecutive month....
Our View: Cyprus’ economic crash was much more than ‘a crisis in confidence’
SPEAKING at a special panel at the Brussels Economic Forum 2016, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades yesterday argued that the crisis in Cyprus was mainly a...
Georghadji says NPLs partly fault of strategic defaulters
Central Bank of Cyprus Governor Chrystalla Georghadji said that an ongoing study of the bank supervisor showed that while the increase in bad loans over...
Global experts to debate in Nicosia how to kickstart growth and avert another crisis
AFTER three years of austerity and painful sacrifices, Cyprus is out of the Eurozone life-support system but not out of the woods yet, an issue...
Banking sector has shrunk 20-25 per cent since 2013 crisis
Three years after the financial crisis and as Cyprus is due to exit its bailout programme at the end of this month, the banking sector...
A settlement could see another 2,500 ships flying Cyprus flag
A settlement of the Cyprus problem could boost the island`s commercial fleet to new levels, as 2,500 ships currently under management by Cyprus-based companies could...
CoE to review state of human rights in Cyprus
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Niels Muznieks will be on the island this week to review how the human rights of migrants, including...
Rent dispute sees Fisheries Department locked out
By Evie Andreou Fisheries department staff were blocked from entering their office on Monday after its owner placed a padlock on the main entrance due...
The pizza man
By Alexia Evripidou WITH SHOPS closing down since the economic crisis at a depressing unseemly rate, the 44-year-old family-run Andy’s Pizza keeps calm and carries...
‘People trying to do more with less’
By Eleni Courea and Marie Kambas A RECENT telephone survey appeared to show that fewer Cypriots were experiencing financial difficulties this Christmas but both retailers...
The price of timidity
By George Markides IN ITS ANNUAL article IV consultation on the economy of the euro area in June 2014, the IMF said: “Weakness in banks’...
Timeline of a crisis
Backdrop to coup and invasion BY 1974 much of the island’s Turkish Cypriot population was living in enclaves. The enclaves started forming after 1963 –...
Days in the twilight zone
By Jean Christou MOST people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing during a major event, and even more so a traumatic...
Personalising the crisis
By Zoe Christodoulides IF YOU happen to be a regular user of Facebook, then it’s more than likely that you’ve come across pictures of friends,...