NICOSIA - President Anastasiades was angered with UN envoy on Cyprus Alexander Downer for being too pushy, insiders said on Sunday.
Downer's aides in Nicosia were asking whether the interlocutor on the peace talks would also be attending May 29's dinner in Nicosia between the President and...More

NICOSIA - The sudden death last night of a 12-year-old girl from the capital district area has shocked the island.

The girl lost consciousness just before midnight at her home and her parents rushed her to emergency at Nicosia General Hospital. Despite efforts by doctors to...More

LONDON - The mother of a teenage soldier stabbed to death outside a nightclub in Cyprus the day before he was due to serve in Afghanistan has spoken of her anguish.
Mohammed Abdulkadir Osman, 19, has been jailed for eight years after admitting to the manslaughter Danny Collins, also 19, in...More

 NICOSIA - The IMF believes that risks for Cyprus were "unusually high" given its weak banking sector and economy and the island's full adoption of an economic austerity plan was imperative.
The island's 17.5 billion euro economy faced risks from the uncertain impact of the crisis in...More

 LIMASSOL - The economy of Cyprus will get worse before it gets better, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades told the Cyprus Shipping Chamber on Friday evening.
And that deep rooted structural reforms are essential to improve the very foundations of Cyprus’ business and economic model.
...More

 NICOSIA - President Anastasides has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General saying he may not attend a dinner with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu on May 29 if not assured that this is only of a social nature.
The President also said that UN special envoy on Cyprus Alexander...More

BRUSSELS  - Paphos was on Friday proclaimed the 2017 Cultural Capital of Europe during a ceremony at the Council of the European Union, in Brussels. Present during the ceremony were Cyprus Education Minister Kyriacos Kenevezos and Paphos Mayor Savvas Vergas.
The Minister said hailed the...More

NICOSIA --- The first tourists from Hong Kong to Cyprus are expected to arrive next year, Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) chairman Alecos Orountiotis said here Friday.
Speaking to journalists after a meeting with tour operators from Hong Kong, Orountiotis said they discussed all possible...More

 NICOSIA - The new CEO of Bank of Cyprus will be appointed soon, Sofocles Michaelides, Bank of Cyprus’ Chairman of the interim Board of Directors has said.
Following a €10 billion bailout agreement with the Eurogroup, Bank of Cyprus, the island`s largest lender, has absorbed the good...More

 LONDON – British MEP Mary Honeyball called on IMF Chief Christine Lagarde to 'come to her senses' and to proceed with stimulus measures not austerity.
Honeyball was speaking on Friday, after a meeting she had with leftwing AKEL Secretary General Andros Kyprianou in Nicosia.

...More