The Cyprus Association of Financial Services Firms (KSEPEY), in its first session decided to form a 3-member disciplinary committee to receive a briefing from the authorities now investigating its member, Suphire Securities & Financial Services. Suphire and Yiannos Andronicou were furthermore called on to cooperate with the authorities in their investigations regarding the shortfall of
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The rate of growth of the Cyprus economy during the fourth quarter of 2004 increased by 3.1% year-on-year compared to the same quarter in 2003, according to the Department of Statistics. This is attributed to the positive performances that continued to be exhibited by the activities of construction, wholesale and retail trade and repair of
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“Don’t abandon us” The students of the Melkonian Educational Institute staged a walk-out and peaceful protest in front of the founders’ mausoleum Wednesday demanding that the decision to close the school next June, announced a year ago today, be overturned. The students, who hail from Cyprus, Greece, the Middle East, the European Union and Armenia,
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Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs George Iacovou met this morning in Geneva with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louis Arbour. Iacovou told CNA that he discussed with Arbour the institutions to protect human rights in the Republic of Cyprus and the topic ‘Human rights in Cyprus,’ which is on the agenda of the UN
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A new qualification for “digital plumbers” is to help train people to become bona fide “home network” fixers. The Home Technology Integration skills course, previously only available in the US, is designed to train people to set up and fix digital home networks, the BBC reported. More than 200,000 new broadband connections are made monthly
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