Constantinou Bros. Hotels (CBH) has decided to propose the payment of a final dividend of 0.31 cent at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders, for a dividend yield of 2.95%. Together with the interim dividend already paid amounting to 0.75 cent for a yield of 7.14%, the total dividend payout of CBH for 2004 amounts
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Cyprus Airways (CAIR) hotly denied reports that it risks collapse if the European Commission does not give its consent to a government backed loan amounting to CYP 30 mln on May 3, 2005. Press reports had suggested that if the EC does not give its backing to the loan, then the management would proceed with
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About 60,000 Turkish Cypriots have acquired ID cards, passports and other certificates, Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said at a panel discussion on the EU constitution organised by the Economist magazine on Thursday, while the money flowing to Turkish Cypriots has amounted to CYP 150 mln, he said. Free medical care has been provided to 24,420
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The European Commission decided Wednesday April 20 on the appointment of Antonis Constantinou to the post of Director in charge of the Agriculture Development Programmes in the Directorate General of Agriculture in the European Commission (DG AGRI, E-II). Constantinou is the first Cypriot citizen who has taken a high-level administrative post in the European Commission
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The government will be touring more than 30 municipalities in the coming weeks as part of its campaign to raise awareness of the EU constitution ahead of its discussion in parliament coming weeks. The government hopes to ratify the constitution, which in January was rejected by the AKEL deputies at the European Parliament, by the
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Total exports/ dispatches for January 2005 increased by 55.2% and were valued at CYP 44.3 mln, compared with CYP 28.5 mln in January 2004, according to preliminary data from the Statistical Service CYSTAT. Of this export total, CYP 29.9 mln were dispatches to other Member States of E.U. and CYP 14.4 mln exports to third
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