Overseas Cypriots and Greeks coordinate efforts to assist Cyprus
The organizations of overseas Cypriots and the Greek-American community in the United States coordinate their efforts to assist Cyprus and its people due to the increasing problems they are faced with...
View ArticleCyprus’ rights to natural gas reserves secured
The management of revenues from the exploitation of natural gas reserves, discovered within Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (AOZ), will be under the full responsibility of the Cypriot government,...
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Theo Paphitis fires up Britain’s High Street
There’s a framed photo of leisure entrepreneur Deborah Meaden behind a sofa, and a doll resembling Margaret Thatcher placed next to a gold bar. Accoutrements such as these say as much about their...
View ArticleCyprus Banks are open but consumers only spending on basics
CONSUMERS have started using baskets in place of trolleys when they shop, and putting the minimum amount of fuel in their vehicles, businesses said yesterday. Bakeries, supermarkets and petrol stations...
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US boosts defences amid Korea threat
The US is sending a missile shield to the Pacific island of Guam as North Korea threatens nuclear strikes. The Pentagon said the shield would be ready within weeks, adding to warships that were sent to...
View ArticleCyprus Turks share pain as banking crisis revives talk of unity
For five years, Ertan Ercantan made a living selling Turkish rugs to Greek Cypriots coming across the border that splits Cyprus’s capital Nicosia in half. Overnight, they’re gone, he said. “If things...
View ArticleGreece sells properties including London consul’s townhouse
Greece sold four properties outside the country, including the UK consul’s residence in London, as the government raises money to pay its debts. The townhouse in London’s Holland Park neighborhood was...
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Government £1m to pay for disabled home changes in Enfield
Disabled people needing to adapt their homes can apply for a slice of more than £1,000,000 given to Enfield Borough Council. The minister of state for housing and local government, Mark Prisk,...
View ArticleOn the look out for Barnet’s best dressed man
British fashion mogul Jeff Banks is on the lookout for Barnet’s best dressed man. Men who think they score highly in the style stakes can join Jeff Banks in his new store at Brent Cross Shopping Centre...
View ArticleTobacco is last season, Electronic Cigarettes are the new look.
As an ex model and actress I smoked over 20 cigarettes daily. Today as a coach, author and Harley Street Hypnotherapist I believe smoking tobacco is totally last season. It made my hair stink, it...
View ArticlePaul Economides to fight in British Title eliminator
English Cypriot boxer Paul Economides will be fighting for the British super bantam weight title eliminator on the 19th of April against Gavin McDonnell who is unbeaten at Doncaster Dome, Doncaster,...
View ArticleCyprus bank workers go on strike
Members of the banking union Etyk have walked off the job for two hours in an effort to protect their provident funds. They stopped work at 12.30 and will remain on strike until 2.30pm. At 3pm union...
View ArticleCyprus residents` trips abroad down by 22.4% in January
Cyprus residents` trips abroad recorded a significant decrease of 22.4% in January 2013, compared with the corresponding month of 2012, according to a press release issued today by the Statistical...
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Andy Symeou: I can now get on with my life
A Cardiff teenager was killed unlawfully after being punched in a Greek nightclub, a coroner has ruled. Jonathan Hiles, 18, died in hospital from the injuries he suffered when he fell from a stage...
View ArticleCyprus to blame for bailout turmoil
The European Central Bank put the blame for initial market turmoil over Cyprus’s bailout squarely on the island’s government on Thursday and pledged that taxing depositors would not become normal...
View ArticleTurkey says Cyprus crisis is chance to end division
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Wednesday the financial crisis in Cyprus presented an “important opportunity” to end the division of the island, split between the Greek Cypriot south and Turkish...
View ArticleLimassol: Charred body had fractured skull
A man whose charred body was found in a car near Ladies Mile Beach on the British Bases on Wednesday had been beaten before he was killed, an autopsy has found. He had a fractured skull. DNA tests...
View ArticleEx-Bank Officials Named in Cyprus Inquiry
Two of the most senior executives at Bank of Cyprus may have deleted crucial e-mail documents last year related to what proved to be a disastrous decision to invest heavily in Greek government bonds...
View ArticleCyprus: Where did all the money go
WHEN share and house prices collapsed in 2008, Buttonwood’s father-in-law asked what happened to the trillions of dollars of wealth that had disappeared. Uninsured Cypriot bank depositors are asking...
View ArticleParliamentarians urge executive bans for “colossal” HBOS failure
Bailed-out British lender HBOS was so badly run it would have failed even without the 2008 financial crisis and the regulator should consider banning its former bosses from the industry, a panel of...
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