BRITAIN’S special envoy for Cyprus Sir David Hannay said yesterday it would not be advisable for either side to interrupt the ongoing UN-sponsored proximity talks.
COMPANIES operating 090 numbers are accusing the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) of squeezing them out of the market and plunging them into bankruptcy ahead of the planned market liberalisation in January 2003.
A NICOSIA court yesterday acquitted an army Colonel charged with leaking military documents relating to an alleged clandestine group monitoring the political persuasions of army officers for governing DISY.
PANGS of conscience forced an 88-year-old grandfather to own up to entering into a sham marriage with his son’s 23-year-old Russian lover so that the woman, a former cabaret dancer, could stay in Cyprus.
The Russian woman was deported on Thursday after the grandfather spilled the beans to immigration officers.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) may bid for between 10 and 30 per cent of Greek national carrier Olympic Airways, the airline’s chairman said in an interview published yesterday.
TURKEY yesterday unveiled a $350 million, three-year aid package to boost the economy of the occupied areas.
The aid will go towards developing light industry, tourism and higher-education institutions, Turkish State Minister Sukru Sina Gurel said.
THE BANK of Cyprus (BoC) yesterday announced the launching of its Direct Banking services for customers wishing to use the bank’s services via Internet, WAP or telephone.
LARNACA club owner Antonis Fanieros, 57, was yesterday sentenced to five years imprisonment for his part in a scam to cash £143,000 worth of someone else’s shares.
His accomplices, Vryssoules businessman Christos Hartoumbalos, 32, and lorry driver Petros Georgiou, 31, also from Vryssoules, were sentenced to five and three years in jail respectively.
THE GOVERNMENT has still failed to approve medical tests on the populations of Omonia and Zakaki to discern whether there is a link between ill health and fumes from the nearby Nemitsas foundry, despite the fact that only one tender is on the table, from a London-based group of experts with a proven track record.
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.
