Union cancels demo after ban, others call for civil disobedience
Small shopkeepers union Povek will not stage a planned demonstration in front of the presidential palace on Wednesday due to new measures against coronavirus forbidding...
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Coronavirus: shop owners need €500m in liquidity, Povek says
Shop owners must be given some €500m in liquidity directly by the state in the first four months of their operation with repayment extending to...
Coronavirus: Povek says shopkeepers enduring a ‘climate of terrorism’
Small shopkeepers union Povek on Thursday called for the intervention of Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou over the coronavirus testing of retail workers, saying they were...
Coronavirus: Povek calls for reduction in the cost of shop rents
Small shopkeepers union, Povek has written to the finance and justice ministries, as well as to leaders of political parties, asking them to reduce rents...
Shop owners appeal to church to show virus-era generosity over rents
Povek, the association representing small businesses, has written to Archbishop Chrysostomos asking him to drastically cut the rents charged for all church-owned shops. In a...
Limassol shopkeepers ready to make last-ditch effort to agree with local council
By Kristian Chrysostomou Shopkeepers on Limassol’s Misiaouli, Kavasoglou and Yildiz streets have said they would make a last-ditch effort to resolve their dispute with local...
Shoppers boost sales with their 13th bonus
CHRISTMAS is upon us once again and preparations are in full swing for the joyous occasion, exchange of gifts, elaborate banquets and, for some,...
Truck drivers rebuff Anastasiades as cargo floods port
The deadlock at the Limassol port continued on Friday, after lorry drivers defied President Nicos Anastasiades’s appeal to resume the delivery of containers whose number...
‘Let justice decide who is right’
Archbishop Chrysostomos on Monday said that he had made many interventions to the government for shops to remain closed on August 15 and on Sundays...
Row over shop opening hours on August 15 holiday
The head of small shopkeeper’s union POVEK Stefanos Koursaris urged on Monday the police and the labour ministry to report all those general shops which...
Napa mayor accuses water sports operators of thwarting competition
Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannos Karousos on Thursday accused the Water Sports Association of conspiring to make sure there was no competition in tenders for setting...
Big shops vow to keep opening on Sundays
By Evie Andreou BIG retailers yesterday vowed to defy the law on shop hours and remain open on Sundays and Wednesday afternoons after the government...
Small shopkeepers want assurances of Christmas Day closure
The small shopkeepers association POVEK on Tuesday asked Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou in a letter to make sure the law was observed so that no...
Shopkeepers doing their bit for Cyprus solution
Delegations from shopkeepers unions on both sides of the divide have decided to set up a committee to further business collaboration between them. The delegations...
Small shop keepers say Sunday opening a red line
By Angelos Anastasiou Sunday shopping remains a red line for small business union POVEK and will not be accepted, its leader Stefanos Koursaris said on...
Is the Cyprob even news anymore?
By Hermes Solomon As we approach at a snail’s pace yet another round of talks to solve the Cyprob, it would be nice to know...
MPs vote to shut shops on Sundays (update 2)
By Elias Hazou FRAMING it in populist terms – big business versus the mom-and-pop store striving to eke out a living – opposition MPs on...
Parliament shuts shops on Sundays (updated)
Parliament on Thursday voted to close shops on Sunday despite warnings that people would lose their jobs. The bill was passed with the votes of...
Welcome to the dark ages
I would like to express my gratitude to the great minds of AKEL who today returned Cyprus to the Dark Ages BC (Before Consumers). If...
MPs urged to deny minister right to set shop hours
PARLIAMENT should take on responsibility and strip the Labour minister of her power to issue decrees on shop opening hours, the small business association (POVEK)...
