CYPRUS’ willingness to see Unficyp leave the island rather than compromise on an offending provision in the force’s renewal mandate is no idle threat, senior government sources said yesterday.
HEALTH Minister Frixos Savvides has postponed indefinitely the heart-to-heart talk he said he would hold this week with cardiologists from two competing heart clinics to settle a feud affecting the care provided to the island’s heart patients.
CALLS were growing yesterday for bourse authorities to investigate sharp swings in share prices after the market experienced one of its more pronounced drops in recent days on volumes that spiked to a year high.
A SURVEY by the Press and Information Office (PIO) has concluded that newspapers in Western Europe and the United States paid scant attention to last month’s Miss Universe contest.
Paphos fury at decade of inaction over stone crushing plant
THE HOUSE environment committee yesterday hit out at state services for allowing a nuisance stone crushing plant to operate within a Paphos residential area for almost a decade.
THE EDUCATION Ministry is stepping in to get the island’s private secondary schools to synchronise announcement of their entrance exam results.
The current system — with different private schools announcing entrance exam results at different times — was creating serious problems for pupils and parents, the House Education Committee heard yesterday.
THE Bishop of Paphos, Chrysostomos, yesterday hit back at a group of parishioners demanding his resignation on grounds that he is more interested in business than spirituality.
The bishop does have extensive business interests, but he insisted yesterday that he and his Paphos clergy worked tirelessly for good of the faithful.
THE CONTRACTORS’ association has accused brick factories of using their market monopoly to allow one their number to sell off its "useless" stock.
CO-OPERATIVE bank chiefs were yesterday divided in their opinion of a House Finance Committee decision to back a bill that would put cheque-bouncing co-op customers on a blacklist.
Plans for such a list had so far been restricted to commercial bank customers.
The Committee’s decision came during a closed meeting on Monday.
CENTRAL Bank Governor Afxentis Afxentiou has protested against Cyprus being shifted to the third category of offshore company countries by the Financial Stability Forum (FSF).
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.
