DEPUTIES were last night locked in debate over the contentious National Health Scheme (ESY) as the final, all-day, session of the current House of Representatives plenum dragged on past midnight.
A PACKED House of Representatives managed to vote on 64 of the 90 bills on the agenda of one of the longest Plenum sessions ever in the first three and a half hours of its meeting yesterday.
One of the most important bills to gain House approval during the morning session of the Plenum allows investors to buy shares on credit.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday condemned Turkey’s threat of unlimited retaliation if a divided Cyprus joined the European Union as “unacceptable”.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem told a news conference in occupied Nicosia on Wednesday that the Turkish reaction were Cyprus to join the EU ahead of a solution “would have no limits”.
THE FAMILY of a three-year-old boy suffering from a rare bone marrow condition yesterday expressed surprise and gratitude at the public response to an appeal for donors who might be compatible for a life-saving transplant.
LESS than 24 hours after the Attorney-general’s stern warning that Cyprus could find itself in trouble with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over the treatment of Turkish Cypriot gypsies arriving from the occupied areas, 23 of them – 13 adults and 10 children – yesterday returned to the north after 18 days in the government controlled areas.
THE BRITISH Bases are considering legal action over allegations made by DIKO deputy Marios Matsakis about the management of the SBA Employees’ Provident Fund.
The politician made the claims on Sigma television on Tuesday night.
A SERIES of tit-for-tat demands by Cyprus Airways (CY) and Eurocypria pilots could plunge the national carrier into a new crisis, unions warned yesterday.
Both Eurocypria-SEK and CY pilots’ union PASIPY said they would react if the company gave in to the other’s demands for more captain promotions.
IN RECENT days, a German traveller named Hans-Georg Lindenau has enlivened Old Nicosia’s Ledra and Onasagorou shopping streets, singing a unique combination of traditional German melodies and opera.
Fags haul
LIMASSOL police yesterday found stolen cigarettes worth over £2 million packed into three containers waiting at the town’s port.
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.
