DIKO Chairman Spyros Kyprianou yesterday insisted his decision not to run for the party’s presidency had not been taken at the last moment.
Speaking on Sunday at Diko’s constitutional conference, Kyprianou announced his decision not to stand again for the post he has held for 24 years when it goes to the vote in June.
LOCAL shares were oblivious to the bloodbath on international equity markets yesterday as they edged 0.8 per cent lower in a mixed performance where cement stocks ended at limit-up, buoyed by reports the government had approved increases in the retail price of cement.
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TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash topped the first round of voting in Saturday’s ‘presidential’ elections but failed to secure the 50 per cent he needed to beat ‘Prime Minister’ Dervis Eroglu in the first round.
THE Government is ready to begin dialogue on tax reform after VAT is increased, Finance Minister Takis Klerides said yesterday.
He was speaking after a meeting with the trade unions, whom he briefed on the government’s proposed tax breaks to offset the imminent two per cent rise in VAT.
THE CHURCH yesterday warned that it would call on the faithful to resist government plans to introduce a ‘smart’ identity card.
In a statement issued after a meeting yesterday, the Holy Synod called on the government to reverse its decision to issue the smart cards from June this year.
A GREEK firm sacked by the government from the production of the Miss Universe contest yesterday blamed red tape for a recent parting of the ways.
A WOMAN yesterday started demonstrating outside the House of Representatives, warning she would go on hunger strike if the law prohibiting smoking in public places was not put into practice.
Andri Olympiou has quit her managerial position at an offshore company because she could not stand her colleges smoking in the office.
A fire at the back of a moving truck yesterday destroyed the belongings of a newly repatriated family.
The owner who recently moved back to Cyprus from South Africa could not believe his bad luck as he watched helplessly while fire fighters tried trying to put out the fire.
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.
