THE CHAIRMAN of the House Health Committee, Andreas Parisinos of DISY, yesterday issued a plea for the long-delayed National Health Plan to be voted on before parliament dissolves for the May elections.
INTERIOR Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou yesterday promised the future of the Akamas wilderness should be finally decided by this summer, a year after the verdict was officially due.
SWIMMING pools were yesterday the latest issue to be passed through the prism of European Union harmonisation, with government calls for an island-wide clean up of health and safety regulations.
CARNIVORES can pig-out without concern in Cyprus, the Veterinary Services said yesterday.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides today made it clear to UN special adviser for Cyprus Alvaro de Soto that the Greek Cypriot side would not agree to a change in the procedure for the UN-sponsored proximity talks.
CYPRUS yesterday denied allegations by Yugoslav National Bank Governor Mladan Dinkic that it was one of the countries “covering up the financial abuses of the previous [Milosevic] regime” by refusing to hand over information on secret accounts.
TWO PRIVATE clinics are understood to have offered a Filipina housemaid free treatment after her employer reportedly refused to cover the cost of a cancer operation.
One of the doctors who made the offer, Sotos Demetriou, told the Cyprus Mail that his clinic would be willing to perform the operation and offer post-operative care “with great pleasure”.
THE GOVERNMENT is set to join forces with the private colleges in an international campaign to inform foreign students about their rights and obligations.
Announcing the move yesterday, Education Minister Ouranios Ioannides said: “The campaign will be taking place all over the world, with special emphasis put on China.”
A NICOSIA criminal court yesterday found lawyer Andri Iracleous, 49, and her sister, chemist Maria Ioannou, 42, guilty of defrauding an elderly man from the
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.
