LARNACA mayor George Lycourgos yesterday boycotted the inauguration ceremony of the Larnaca desalination plant to protest against the government’s decision to authorise its construction within the salt lake protection zone.
CYPRUS could become a venue for peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday.
Peres, who is in Cyprus on a two-day visit, was speaking after a meeting with President Glafcos Clerides.
THE FIRST noticeable earthquake in Cyprus this year struck at 3.39am yesterday along the coast between Pissouri and Aphrodite’s Rock, notching up 4.4 on the Richter scale.
No damage has been reported.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash said yesterday he would allow Panicos Tsiakourmas to visit his critically ill mother if he was convicted on drugs charges in the north on Thursday.
CYPRIOT born tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou has been named Britain’s fastest growing millionaire, following the flotation of his no-frills airline easyJet on the London Stock Exchange last November.
A MOLOTOV cocktail exploded on the front wall of the Limassol home of two secondary school teachers in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police believe students were to blame.
If the firebomb attack was indeed down to students, then this would be the latest in a long line of incidents of youth delinquency on the island this year.
THE Electricity Authority (EAC) yesterday launched a third campaign to get consumers to turn to compact fluorescent light bulbs.
A DISPUTED flock of around 50 sheep, which wandered into the buffer zone on Sunday, were back sent to the north, UNFICYP said yesterday.
“A UN officer went to check the sheep yesterday and determined that they were not infected,” a spokesman said yesterday. He said that the sheep belonged to a Turkish Cypriot shepherd and had been sent back to the north.
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.
