. Apart from the discovery of natural gas, we haven’t heard positive economic news here in Cyprus for a good while. For the past two years, local companies have been challenged with deteriorating business conditions, which caused many of them to freeze or cut salaries, and in some cases even reduce staff and increase the
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S.M.A.R.T. Options Educational Services is introducing a series of four workshops from September to December for teenagers aged 15-19 on Skills for Life. The aim, according to programme director Marlene Philippou, is to inspire them and show them how to develop skills that will be useful for their studies at high school, their university years,
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. It would seem that the mayors of Engomi and Yermasoyia have one thing in common – their determination to fight what they call “noise pollution” and the late-night races of high-speed, suped-up cars driven by death-defying youths who obviously have nothing better to do. The new mayor of Engomi took it upon himself to
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. Many people are searching for an answer on whether the reason why banks are involved in scandals around the globe is because of the greed factor of earning a huge bonus on top of already high salaries or if the failure is due to inadequate monitoring, testing and oversight of their operations or due
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* Trust still keen to expand its business * The new CEO of the Bank of Cyprus has nothing to be cheerful about. Hardly a week in his new chair and Yiannis Kypri has to resolve the issue of the bonds debacle, offload the bank’s insurance subsidiaries and possibly deal with pressure for a merger
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If you are wondering why the real estate market has been doing so badly lately, the recently released data on dwellings from the October 2011 census provide a good clue. The number of new dwellings constructed swelled from 70,094 in the ten-year period of 1991-2000 to 136,906 in 2001-10, marking an increase of 95%. Yet
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Cyta has just published the new edition of its Cyprus Holiday Guide for 2012, which includes all the information that visitors as well as local tourists might need during their holidays in Cyprus. Now in its tenth issue, the new annual guide is packed with photos and information about the most interesting sights, museums, nature
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In communicating with their customers, most companies have focused too much on social media and appear to be under-investing in mobile and other new communication channels. That's the conclusion of a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Genesys, that examines how companies are responding to the changing dialogue between customers and companies.
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. By Dr Olga Kandinskaia Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) If you are not familiar with the legendary quotes of Yogi Berra, you must be seriously wondering what this headline means. A uniquely successful baseball catcher with the New York Yankees for almost two decades, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972,
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. This government is getting so desperate for cash that it is resorting to unconventional, or at least previously ‘untouchable’, sources to raise the necessary funds to pay down the huge public sector debt that is piling up. Unsure what conditions will be attached to the new Russian loan and in the inability, for now,
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