TURKISH Cypriots go to the polls today to vote in the sixth ‘presidential’ elections since the invasion of 1974.
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash must fight off stiff challenges if he is to go to the third round of settlement talks due in New York next month.
MONEY poured in to the Cyprus stock market yesterday, registering the highest trading volume so far this year as institutional investors continued to take up positions.
JUSTICE Minister Nicos Koshis yesterday refused to comment on an ongoing row with Chief of Police Andreas Angelides, which has dealt another blow to the Clerides government.
PRESIDENT Clerides yesterday briefed the National Council on his latest contacts in New York and London.
The Council will meet again next month ahead of the third round of UN-led proximity talks due to start in New York on May 23.
CITY water boards expect to tighten rationing this summer, but do not plan any rate rises, since parliamentary approval would be needed for that – and the House of Representatives has been sitting on rate-hike requests ever since 1992.
THE UNITED Democrats have accused the Finance Minister of pandering to opposition Diko in his attempts to gain acceptance of his planned hike in VAT.
A 24-YEAR-old football player was electrocuted during a physiotherapy session after touching a faulty machine, a post mortem revealed yesterday.
Andreas Nicos Ioachim from Frenaros was undergoing therapy for an old leg injury on a special machine on Thursday night when he was electrocuted.
IT’S HARD to tackle smoking in Cyprus because penalties imposed for lighting up in no smoking areas are always very low, Health Minister Frixos Savvides said yesterday
A NEW Citizens’ Rights Charter aims to tackle the plagues of bureaucracy, delay and chaos in the public sector.
Interior Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou presented the charter yesterday at a news conference.
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.
