‘Abolish mukhtars’, Phedonos urges Hasikos
PAPHOS mayor Phedonas Phedonos urged the interior minister on Friday to abolish the age old institution of local community councillors and transfer their duties to...
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Commandos who took part in coup given funeral
Twelve National Guard commandos, killed in action during the assault on the Presidential Palace on July 15, 1974, whose bones were found in a mass...
Save our Seashores
By Maria Hadjimichael Seashores are one of the clearest manifestations of what is generally considered to constitute “the commons” – a place where access is...
Migrant mother released from detention
By Alexia Evripidou A HUNGER striker protesting outside the Ministry of Interior on Monday has secured the release of an immigrant mother detained by the...
Minister clarifies dead people voting issue
COMMENTS about how dead people remained in the electoral roll have been blown out of proportion, interior minister Socrates Hasikos said on Tuesday. He said...
Our View: No easy task to clean up office of the Guardian
IT WAS a common secret that corruption was rife at the state body administering abandoned Turkish Cypriot properties in the Republic, but until a few...
Applications to IPC declining says Hasikos
THE number of applications by Greek Cypriot refugees to the immovable property committee (IPC) in the north are declining as a result of the resumption...
Hasikos forges ahead with shakeup at Guardianship
INTERIOR minister Socrates Hasikos yesterday asked for a major shakeup among civil servants assigned to administrating Turkish Cypriot properties in the government-controlled areas. Hasikos, who...
CyBC budget cut minimised but English department suffering
By Peter Stevenson Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos has agreed with the public broadcaster CyBC’s board that their budget would be reduced by €4 million instead...
Legal steps being taken against three pig farms
AUTHORITIES are launching legal procedures against three pig farms whose illegal expansions are adversely impacting the quality of life of the residents of the Nicosia...
More local authorities than the UK
By Maria Gregoriou CYPRUS, with a population of 840,407, has more local authorities than the UK, which has a population of 65 million, and Bulgaria...
‘Local authorities need to merge services’
By Poly Pantelides DEBT-RIDDEN local authorities are looking to merge services, not cut down on the number of municipalities and communities, the head of the...
Site found for Larnaca gas installations
THE Commerce Ministry has found a suitable area where the gas installations on Larnaca’s coast can be moved to, Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos announced yesterday....