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1141. Traffic camera citations by registered mail

Drivers who commit traffic offences and are caught on camera will receive the bill in the mail, if a current proposal for a new network to be rolled out next year goes forward...

1142. Cyprus announces €500 million tender for LNG terminal

1143. Limassol port yields €67 million

1144. Dherynia and Lefka crossing points ready in October

1145. World’s largest offshore wind farm opens off northwest England

1146. Bank of Cyprus gets rid of small business bad loans

The Bank of Cyprus says it has sold a portfolio of non-performing loans worth €2.8 billion to Apollo Global Management, a transaction that will reduce its stock of NPLs to €5.2 billion...

1147. Bank of Cyprus CEO stays put through 2020

Bank of Cyprus CEO John Patrick Hourican will stay in his current position through the end of 2020, following a decision by the executive board at the largest lending institution in Cyprus...

1148. Bulgaria scrambling over Olympic bankruptcy

The bankruptcy of Cyprus-based Olympic Insurance Company has become the focus of attention and a regulator has resigned, after 200,000 Bulgarians were left without insurance...

1149. Cyprus puts team together to save gas deal

The Cyprus government is willing to renegotiate terms with an energy consortium, following concerns on the part of companies that worry new developments and low gas prices would render a current deal not profitable...

1150. Shadows loom over government’s ‘clean exit’ scenario

Greece’s bailout exit has been eliciting condescending and bitter commentary on the country’s beaches and in its near-deserted cities, as few Greeks believes their lives are going to improve or that the country’s prospects will be akin to those of other bailed-out eurozone states. Greece’s “return to normalcy” and “clean exit,” much touted by the government, appear to be happening somewhere else....

1151. The solitary third age of Greek Australians

Thirty-three-year-old Dimitra will lock her door tomorrow morning and breathe in the chilly Melbourne air. ...

1152. US senate delays F-35 transfer to Turkey

The US senate passed a huge defence bill granting President Donald Trump waiver authority on certain sanctions against Russian-buying countries but also forcing him to wait 90 days before deciding to allow the transfer of F-35 jets to Turkey...

1153. Polis caves in to step up old campground

A long and protracted dispute between the Polis Chrysochous municipality and the administration of the local campsite has come to an end, with a new offer on the table sweetening the deal for the private operator...

1154. Strovolos garbage collectors get back to work

Strovolos garbage collectors have agreed to get back to work in exchange of the municipality dropping plans to buy partial services from the private sector at least until November...

1155. Strovolos garbage collectors go on strike

Garbage collectors in Nicosia’s Strovolos municipality are going on a 48-hour strike Thursday to protest city council plans that would add private crews to waste collection...

1156. White smoke over Metochi land transfer dispute

There is white smoke over the Metochi land transfer dispute between Kykkos and the Greek government, following a bitter battle that even brought the foreign minister to Nicosia to testify in court...

1157. Energean commits to Eastern Mediterranean

Energean is seeking approval from Cyprus for the Greek oil and gas firm to build a pipeline from its Israeli offshore gas fields and import 0.5 to 1 billion cubic meters of gas a year to the island...

1158. Leoni Paraskevaides takes over J&P Overseas

There are new developments in the J&P Overseas saga in Riyadh, with the Cypriot company solidifying its leadership following an internal and legal battle that now appears to be over...

1159. Government cuts red tape on traffic camera plans

The President’s Cabinet is cutting red tape when it comes to traffic cameras, in an effort to have a system installed sooner than later...

1160. Greece to extradite Georgian suspected crime boss to France

Greek authorities have agreed to extradite to France the Georgian suspected head of an international crime ring specializing in robberies and burglaries....

1161. Poor maintenance suspected in EAC fatal accident

Officials are not ruling out poor maintenance of equipment in the death of an EAC worker, who was killed in a boom lift accident Monday while trying to cut tree branches...

1162. Tsochadzopoulos steps out of prison on early release

Akis Tsochadzopoulos, a former defense minister convicted in 2013 to 19 years in prison for corruption, stepped out of the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison on Tuesday after being granted early release....

1163. G.A.P. Vassilopoulos Group strikes a deal with UPS

G.A.P. VASSILOPOULOS Group has entered into an agreement to be the authorized service contractor for UPS in Cyprus as of July 1st 2018...

1164. Supermarket closed down on Turkish Cypriot property violation

There was tension in Peristerona Friday morning, when owners of a supermarket and local residents took to the streets to protest government closing their business due to Turkish Cypriot property violations...

1165. Student arrested while delivering food to Paphos Immigration

Paphos immigration officers arrested a delivery guy from Bangladesh, after he had gone to their department to deliver a food order....

1166. Paphos mayor sticks to his guns in Turkish Cypriot property saga

Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos is dismissing a response issued by the Interior Ministry regarding the latest Turkish Cypriot property saga, while reiterating allegations he made about favouritism and criminal activity in his town...

1167. Trial of ex deputy police chief can go forward

The Supreme Court has ruled that an independent report should be handed over to the defence team of the former deputy chief of police, who is facing charges in connection with the leaking of information in the Ayia Napa mob killings of 2016...

1168. Paphos mayor turns up pressure in Turkish Cypriot properties saga

Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos is turning up the pressure in his town’s Turkish Cypriot properties saga, prompting Edek party leader Marinos Sizopoulos to respond to allegations of corruption...

1169. Complaints against police remain a challenge

The special task force looking into complaints against the police is having a tough time investigating cases, primarily due to lack of funding but also possible conflicts of interest...

1170. Lifeguards blame Protaras drowning on government

Lifeguards are up in arms over the death of a 65-year-old swimmer in Protaras, saying they could have saved her life if the government had agreed to changes in their working conditions...