ABOUT 200 investors demonstrated outside the Stock Exchange yesterday to demand suspension of all share trading till their demands for radical measures to boost the bourse are met.
IN KEEPING with its environmental philosophy, the Green Party yesterday announced it would be keeping election campaign paper use down to the barest minimum.
The party also suggested measures that the Interior Ministry could implement to help keep the waste down.
NICOSIA lawyers were up in arms yesterday, refusing to appear in court between 11am to 4pm, after the Limassol Criminal Court put a lawyer behind bars for five days for contempt of court.
Former state prosecutor and DIKO member Michalakis Kyprianou was jailed on Wednesday for remarks made to the judges during the murder trial of British tourist Graham Mills.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash yesterday offered to abandon politics if he was granted his biggest wish: recognition of his break-away occupation “state”, the so-called TRNC.
A NEWS conference yesterday exposed the cracks between government policy and the country’s obligations to international conventions on asylum seekers.
OVERSEAS British citizens will be able to vote by post for the first time at the next general elections.
Until now, expats had to arrange proxy votes in their constituencies.
Postal voting forms will be dispatched to all those who are registered six weeks before polling day – the prescribed period of notice given before any election.
FISH markets in Cyprus seem have so far remained unaffected by — or even blissfully unaware of — an international codfish shortage.
THE HOUSE of Representatives will no longer have the power to block decisions on military supply if a bill proposed by DIKO is approved.
ISRAELI Ambassador to Cyprus, Michael Eligal yesterday chastised the Cyprus media for its “unjustified and unfair” criticism of new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whilst speaking of his “real concern” that mounting terrorist attacks could drag the entire Middle East into war.
DISY deputy Lefteris Christoforou has proposed the establishment of a tourist police to serve in holiday areas and give information and advice to visitors.
Christoforou submitted his proposal to the House Commerce and Industry Committee yesterday.
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.
