PRESIDENT NICOS Anastasiades yesterday accused UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer and his team of undermining the president’s credibility and the prospects of resuming peace talks in a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

ONE WAY or another the government will implement the rescue plan for national carrier Cyprus Airways (CY), Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said yesterday in a veiled warning to the CY board, which submitted its resignation earlier this week. 

A TOP EU official has claimed that the humiliating raid on Cypriot bank accounts was a

punitive measure for excessive time wasting and increasingly strained relations with

the government of Demetris Christofias.
The disclosure was the latest twist in what appears to be an intensified war of words