ON SUNDAY a Greek newspaper carried a report that Attorney-general Petros Clerides had suspended prosecution for driving offences against his son.<\/p>\n
Clerides, declined to comment until Monday night on a television current affairs show where although he was not specific about the reported offences \u2013 drink driving and not having an MOT \u2013 he did confirm that an offence had taken place and that he had suspended prosecution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Everybody who spent even a few month in Cyprus knows how corrupt is the government. \u00a0But lately there is a flood of reports on all sorts of government officials. \u00a0What’s going on? \u00a0Did people have enough finally?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Reading the news these days is interesting. \u00a0Have a look at the following snippets, for example. One: THE CABINET has decided to fire the chairman of Cyprus\u2019 natural gas company, DEFA, because of serious misconduct, government spokesman Christos Stylianides said yesterday. Two: THE HOUSE Ethics Committee will look into whether parliament was misled by the … Continue reading Cyprus, what’s going on?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[2250,1090,1226],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-crime","tag-government","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155806,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/19\/lavrion-corfu-sailing-day-0-cyprus-to-greece\/","url_meta":{"origin":17975,"position":0},"title":"Lavrion – Corfu sailing: Day 0 – Cyprus to Greece","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, is the start of the new adventure. 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