INTERIOR Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou yesterday said “tragic” economic and social conditions in the occupied north had driven 49 Turkish Cypriot gypsies to cross into the government-held areas in the last 15 days.
CYPRUS’ chief EU negotiator said yesterday the island expected to close another four to six chapters in its EU harmonisation in the coming months, bringing it more than 80 per cent of the way towards full accession.
THE ALL-share index hit a 20-month low yesterday, closing 2.92 per cent down at 179.4 points. It was the lowest the index has seen since July 1999.
The FTSE/CySE top 20 dropped a further 2.58 per cent to 759.6 points while volume stood at £6.3 million as investors continued to dump shares with little left to lose.
THREE people were killed in two separate crashes in a bad weekend on the roads that also saw three young children seriously injured.
Charalambos Charalambous, 21, Christodoulos Christodoulou, 22, both from Paliometocho, died instantly when their saloon car crashed into a bus stop before careering into an olive tree and being sheared in half.
THE GOVERNMENT has received 23 expressions of interest from companies in 14 countries to build and operate Larnaca and Paphos airports, the Communications and Works Ministry said yesterday.
Ministry Permanent Secretary Dr Vassos Pyrgos told a news conference that applications had been received from companies in Europe, America and Australia.
THE government has got its own back on parliament by securing on loan from Greece the helicopters that deputies would not approve funding for.
Defence Minister Socratis Hasikos yesterday proudly announced that two Bell helicopters had arrived on the island on Sunday night, courtesy of Athens.
THE UN Secretary-general’s Special Advisor on Cyprus has made it clear that the status of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides and other issues of the Cyprus problem matters should be addressed through negotiations and not ahead of them.
BRACE yourselves, for if March is anything to go by, then this summer is set to be an absolute scorcher.
This March has been one of the hottest on record, with temperatures in Nicosia averaging around four degrees higher than the norm for this time of year.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) pilots are not concerned about the national carrier’s plans to cut loose its charter firm Eurocypria, they said yesterday.
A spokesman for CY pilots’ union PASIPY told the Cyprus Mail that as long as the company honoured current agreements with them, it could do whatever else it wanted.
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.
