PRESIDENT Clerides’ ill-health has forced the third round of settlement talks to be put back by over a month and the venue to be changed to Geneva, senior government and diplomatic sources have said.
The UN-led proximity talks are now to begin in the Swiss town on June 26.
CYPRUS’ Chief EU negotiator George Vassiliou yesterday underwent what doctors described as "satisfying" surgery for the removal of a brain tumour.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides will be remaining in hospital until early next week and not released over the weekend as planned, his doctors announced yesterday.
Clerides underwent surgery for the removal of a polyp in his large intestine on Friday. A biopsy has since shown that the biopsy contained cancerous cells.
FOUR British tourists suspected of dealing in ecstasy and a Nicosia man allegedly caught with hashish and cocaine in his underpants were yesterday remanded by local courts.
Three of the British tourists – John Paddington, 32, Craig Dykes, 29 and Kevin O’Brian, 23 – were arrested after a police chase through Ayia Napa on Tuesday night.
TEN PER cent of the population live in ‘relative’ poverty, officials admitted yesterday.
And while the number is well below European averages, the House Interior Committee yesterday urged the government to ensure a decent standard of living for all.
STARTING out on dips, share prices emerged marginally higher yesterday after resisting early pressure on most stocks.
With traded value at a steady £34.9 million, the benchmark CSE index climbed with eventual gains of 0.39 per cent, staging a u-turn from an opening that saw the market moving 1.07 per cent lower in the first 20 minutes of trading.
THE GOVERNMENT will for the first time officially release the list of persons missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion, an official announcement said yesterday.
So far, the list had been kept under wraps, with only the number of missing being disclosed.
BRITISH forces in Dhekelia were this morning due to explode a purpose-built aeroplane in a massive emergency services exercise involving 3,000 people.
CYPRUS is to be the scene for two world record breaking attempts in extreme sports this summer.
Next month, South African Trevor Hutton aims to break the world freediving record by passing the 73 metre mark.
THE parish church for Eleftheria Stadium, Nicosia, is holding an all-night vigil to protest against the "evils" of the Miss Universe pageant being held in the stadium in the early hours of Saturday.
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.
