A SERIES of restrictive measures imposed by the Turkish Cypriot side against Unficyp in retaliation over the rewording of the force’s mandate will come in to force today.
UN spokeswoman Sarah Russell told the Cyprus Mail that the UN had received official notification from the north yesterday detailing the measures.
THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday refused to consider a Cabinet proposal for pump price rises, but parties promised the burning issue would be debated at next week’s House plenum session.
GOVERNING Disy yesterday cranked up the pressure on President Glafcos Clerides to reshuffle his cabinet.
Before yesterday, the party had not taken sides in an ongoing debate between Disy members who want new faces in the Cabinet, and the government, which does not.
HOTELIERS yesterday expressed their anger at the reintroduction of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) levy set to take effect tomorrow, saying it would add considerably to their expenses for the current summer season.
CYPRUS does not have the means to crack down on banned breeds of fighting dogs, despite legislation that forbids their import.
The issue has come to the fore in Europe this week after a gruesome pitbull attack that killed a boy of six in Germany on Monday.
SHARES continued a slippery slope yesterday, weighed down by weak banking stocks as the saga on Bank of Cyprus’s listing in Athens rumbled on.
A sour mood from a liquidity crunch and rumours putting a dampener on scenarios for an early BoC listing in Athens knocked seven points off the all-share CSE index yesterday, pulling it down to 485.03.
THE Interior Ministry yesterday conceded that recent forest fires had exposed serious weaknesses in its emergency fire-fighting plans.
THE CYPRUS Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) is optimistic that the House of Representatives will approve its plans to overhaul the way it charges for calls, which could come into affect by the end of October this year.
HARSHER penalties for traffic violations are set to be passed by the House of Representatives next week, with police insisting they will help save lives on the island’s roads.
MOST Cypriot motorists favour the expected increases in fines for not wearing seat belts or helmets and using a mobile phone whilst driving, according to an informal poll carried out by the Cyprus Mail in Nicosia yesterday.
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.
