THE GOVERNMENT says the expansion of Larnaca Airport is making excellent progress, and is confident the first phase of the project will be completed early next year.
The new five million pound complex consists of an upgraded control tower and improved facilities for the fire brigade.
THE ENTRY of the Bank of Cyprus group (BoC) in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) will create prospects of co-operation between the ASE and CSE that will act as catalysts in the course of both markets, BoC Chairman Solon Triantafyllides said yesterday.
JUSTICE Minister Nicos Koshis yesterday pledged the state’s determination to fight and eliminate destructive cults which he claims are increasingly operating on the island.
Cults are a worldwide phenomenon concerning all states and official European bodies, Koshis said.
PRESIDENT CLERIDES’ appeal for an end to party political sparring over developments at the UN-led proximity talks fell on deaf ears yesterday.
Opposition parties AKEL, DIKO and KISOS yesterday all laid in to the President for his handling of the negotiations and for his statements upon his return from the fourth round of talks on Thursday evening.
A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Louvaras, in the Limassol district, was killed on Thursday night when he was electrocuted while picking grapes, police reported yesterday.
Athanasios Sofocleous was killed instantly when he touched a sheet of corrugated iron, which was in contact with a power line. The accident occurred at about 10pm on Thursday.
THE DANISH rejection of the euro in Thursday’s referendum spells more gloom for the ailing euro and the heavy import burden in Cyprus.
EVIDENCE of how the 275 illegal immigrants whose boat sank off Paphos paid up to each for their passage and were duped into believing they would be taken from Lebanon to Italy was heard at Paphos district court yesterday.
THE CYPRUS Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) yesterday announced the launch of a new autumn telecards collection.
Two of the series’ seven cards have anti-drug themes, one commemorating the 2000 Cyprus Rally, one the Wine Festival, another the 40th Anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus and one commemorating the performance of the opera Carmen.
THE all-share index jumped 1.26 per cent yesterday doing little to restore investor confidence as it closed at 358.86 points.
AFTER 24 straight years with Spyros Kyprianou at the helm, the DIKO party yesterday chose a new party leader in Tassos Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos was declared president-elect of the party Kyprianou founded in 1976 after no other candidate was submitted for the post.
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.
