‘Gesy to upgrade the health sector’
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Saturday said the introduction of the National Health Scheme (Gesy) will upgrade and modernise the healthcare sector. Addressing the annual...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Keep calm and carry on talking up Cyprob
THE MEETING with the party leaders on Monday failed to shed much light on how Prez Nik plans to deal with the UNSG’s attempt to...
Lillikas says he wouldn’t take post of minister for Anastasiades
Presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas on Tuesday said he would not accept a ministerial post or an EU Commission appointment from the administration of incumbent president...
Presidentital candidate Lillikas would hold a Cyprob referendum if elected
Presidential candidate and leader of the Citizens’ Alliance, Giorgos Lillikas has said that if he is elected he will hold a referendum to allow the...
Lillikas backs away from ‘buyout’ claims
Presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas sought on Thursday to dial down his allegations that someone tried to buy him off so that he’d pull out of...
Lillikas: Papadopoulos camp tried to ‘buy him out’ of elections
Presidential hopeful Giorgos Lillikas said on Tuesday that someone from the campaign team of Nicolas Papadopoulos tried to ‘buy him out’ so he would withdraw...
Presidential hopefuls focus on Cyprob, economy (Update 7)
Nine presidential candidates on Friday pledged to reunite Cyprus and boost economic recovery, some taking sideswipes at the incumbent, Nicos Anastasiades, while calling for change....
Lillikas internet joke slammed as poor taste
Politicians on Tuesday censured as being in bad taste a photograph doing the rounds on the internet announcing the upcoming ‘funeral’ of presidential candidate Yiorgos...
Presidential candidate Lillikas presents road safety plan
Presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas on Friday presented 20 proposals for a safer road network, a reduction in fatal accidents and an increase in the quality...
Presidential candidate Lillikas fined for unsolicited phone calls
Presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas was fined €500 by personal data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou-Nikoloaidou for making unsolicited phone calls and sending an SMS with political...
Discussion on future of Bases to start next week
Substantive negotiations between Cyprus and Britain regarding the Bases after Brexit will begin on October 11, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides told deputies on the House...
‘We must make every effort to resume dialogue’
While ruling Disy and main opposition Akel on Tuesday seemed to agree that the only way to prevent unilateral Turkish actions was to return to...
Alliance renegades launch new platform
Six former senior officials of the Citizens’ Alliance, who left the party in the wake of their disagreement with leader Giorgos Lillikas’ decision to mount...
Early poll sees Anastasiades-Papadopoulos run-off in 2018
In a first presidential election poll published on Sigmalive on Sunday, as things stand today, a run-off second round would see a battle between President...
Alliance MP quits party over presidential elections decision (updated)
Citizens’ Alliance MP Pavlos Milonas has quit the party because he disagreed with its chairman, Yiorgos Lillikas, running for president in next year’s elections. Milonas...
Cypriot MPs to hold contacts in Germany
A delegation of the Cyprus-Germany Friendship Group from the House of Representatives will leave for Berlin on Tuesday for a two-day visit at the invitation...
Our View: Shenanigans in ‘patriotic space’ are at least entertaining
The bickering among the rejectionist party leaders over who will be the candidate of the ‘patriotic space’ in next year’s presidential election, apart from keeping...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prez Nik shows he is king of rusfeti
WITH the presidential election less than 11 months away, Prez Nik felt obliged to give a public display of his rusfetological powers to re-assure citizens...
Lillikas backed by own party as presidential nominee in Sunday vote (Updated)
The Citizens Alliance, with 114 votes in favour and 20 against decided on Sunday that party leader Giorgos Lillikas was the most appropriate candidate for...
Centre parties’ Cyprus problem seminar to proceed without Lillikas
A follow-up seminar on the Cyprus problem, organised in Paphos on Friday by parties opposing President Nicos Anastasiades’ stance in the talks for not being...