THE government yesterday said it had protested to the United States about certain aspects of the latest State Department human rights report section on Cyprus.
The protest was conveyed to US ambassador in Cyprus Donald Bandler by Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides at a meeting yesterday.
IN AN attempt to play down media hysteria about alleged British spying against Cyprus, Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides yesterday reminded reporters that “Cyprus is not the epicentre of this issue, nor is it the centre of the Earth”.
THE United Nations chief envoy for Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, will pay his first visit to the island this week.
After he arrives on Tuesday, De Soto will visit both the Republic and the occupied areas before departing around March 7.
THE TURKISH foreign minister yesterday said that every effort would be made to Alift the embargo@ against the north of Cyprus.
LARNACA District Court yesterday remanded a man for eight days after police said they found 13 grams of cocaine and two grams of cannabis at his home.
POLICE yesterday said they had uncovered a Kiti-based syndicate believed to be responsible for at least three bank robberies.
EXPERTS are confident that Cyprus’ strong services infrastructure will prevent the international business sector being scared off by an inevitable end to special tax breaks.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
