Athanasios Orphanides has been appointed Friday by Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus.He is succeeding Christodoulos Christodoulou whose term in office ends on May 2, 2007.An official press release said Orphanides will assume his duties as Governor of the Central Bank on May 3, 2007. His tenure
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Under the slogan “Let’s give voice to our cityâ€, the refugee Municipality of Famagusta began on Saturday a campaign to collect signatures by Famagusta refugees demanding that they be allowed to return to the fenced off town.In a speech at the ceremony at the occupied town’s Cultural Centre in Dherynia village, Mayor of Famagusta Alexis
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The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus Michael Moller is currently at UN headquarters in New York for consultations.Moller is expected to brief UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe on the results of his talks in Cyprus and to discuss ways of breaking the current deadlock, which appears impossible in the light
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The Cyprus House Finance Committee has decided to lower the ceiling for stamp duty on agreements made in Cyprus to CYP 10.000 or EUR 17.000 per contracts above CYP 25 mln or EUR 43 mln in a move widely seen as improving Cyprus’ changes of attracting foreign companies to book deals through the island. The
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The Cyprus government has proposed the creation of a total of 567 civil service jobs, with 669 being new positions and 102 job redundancies aimed at improving the quality of service and productivity. With the civil servants pay now accounting for two-thirds of the annual state budget, the government officially ended its moratorium on new
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A moving undercover account of the exploitation of foreign workers in Italy’s Puglia region has won first prize in this year’s “For Diversity, Against Discrimination.†EU Journalist Award. Second and third place went to Hungary and Belgium respectively, while a Finnish entry won the special Young Journalism prize. VladimÃr Å pidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social
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Regional policy Commissioner, Danuta Hübner, on her first official visit to Cyprus, met President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos. The Commissioner stressed the importance of Cyprus‘ membership in the European Union and pointed out that the new European cohesion policy will contribute to more growth and quality jobs in the Cypriot economy. Commissioner Hübner also
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Comment by Patrick Skinner — Italian? A Good Impersonation!  The Il Gusto on the “Strip†at Akrotiri resembles crowded Trattorias in London I knew and loved in my young days. A member of a very successful catering group, PNS Restaurant Ltd., (Ryans, Akrotiri and Historikin, Lemesos are theirs, too), it is now a successful
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Comment by Patrick Skinner  THAT Competition  Michael R, Emailing me from Lemesos asks why I haven’t featured the Cyprus wine competition in my columns. Well, it’s like this. As with many people in the wine business here, I thought the first one was not well considered or assembled and as a specialist (and
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To reduce CO2 emissions by 15-17% Slash energy consumption by 30%  New plant to absorb waste and strengthen competitive position  Vassiliko Cement Works Pcl (VCW) is waiting for the green light from the Commission for Protection of Competition on its planned merger with Cyprus Cement in order to commit a record EUR 125
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