Pensioner calls off hunger strike after Hasikos assurances
Demetris Constantinou, 65, a resident of Chlorakas on Tuesday began an indefinite hunger strike outside a Paphos school because he said the government owes him...
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Cabinet proposes flat IPT rate of 0.05 per cent
The government on Wednesday proposed introducing a flat immovable property tax rate to 0.05 per cent and scrapping the IPT paid to local authorities altogether....
The economics of a solution
By Costas Apostolides The economics of a Cyprus settlement have come to the fore this week because both Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci were invited...
KYP officers plead guilty to conspiracy and abuse of power
By Angelos Anastasiou In a plea bargain, Cyprus intelligence service (KYP) sergeants Costas Miamiliotis and Lefteris Mouskos, who faced bribery charges in connection with the...
Cabinet ratifies 1971land for salaries agreement with Church
Enforcement of an old agreement between the church and the state, dating back to 1971, by which the government would subsidise the salaries of some...
Illegal motorcycle race track on Turkish Cypriot owned land
By Bejay Browne DISGRUNTLED residents near an idyllic beauty spot in Paphos are up in arms over the attempted construction of a make shift motorcycle...
State must pay company €9m in damages in expropriation case, ECHR rules
By Angelos Anastasiou A Cypriot company has been awarded almost €9 million in damages by the European Court of Human Rights over a land expropriation...
Municipal secretary quizzed at Aristo trial
By Constantinos Psillides The trial of Aristo Developers founder Theodoros Aristodemou, his wife Roula, draftsman Christos Solomonides, and former Paphos municipal engineer Savvakis Savva continued...
Aristo case adjourned until January 27
By Angelos Anastasiou The Assize Court on Monday postponed the trial relating to a suspicious land-zoning case, for which Aristo Developers founder Theodoros Aristodemou, his...
Sentences of three and a half to nine years in Dromolaxia case (Update 2: adds judge’s comments)
By Constantinos Psillides THE Larnaca Criminal Court issued a final verdict on the Dromolaxia scandal on Monday, jailing all five guilty parties on various charges...
