THE UNITED Nations force in Cyprus yesterday called the action by Turkish troops in Strovilia, where they created a new checkpoint on Friday, a Aserious violation of the military status quo@.
GREEK and Turkish Cypriots separated for decades gathered at a park just outside Pergamos in the Dhekelia SBA area yesterday afternoon for a bicommunal villagers= meeting.
IT WAS business as usual for both shopkeepers and consumers on Nicosia=s Ledra Street yesterday, the first day of the new rate of VAT, bumped up from eight to ten per cent.
A 32-year-old British tourist was yesterday recovering in the Lito Clinic in Paralimni after a near fatal incident when the rope attaching his parachute to the boat was severed while he was parasailing.
CYPRUS ranks 22nd out of 174 countries on the UN=s Human Development Index for 2000 — higher than Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore and all of the island=s neighbours.
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Dherynia boy has been rushed to hospital for emergency treatment after being bitten on the head by a neighbour=s dog.
THE U.S. ENVOY to the United Nations cast doubt yesterday on whether the new round of UN-sponsored talks on Cyprus in Geneva next week would bring the two sides much closer.
“I certainly hope there is progress but I am not very optimistic,” Richard Holbrooke said at a breakfast with business executives at the annual Crans-Montana forum in Switzerland.
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.
