THE EUROPEAN Parliament yesterday issued a clear warning to Ankara that it could forget its European Union bid if it went ahead and annexed the occupied areas if a divided Cyprus joined the EU.
A STUDENT protest against Greco-Turkish rapprochement outside the Presidential Palace was yesterday marred by minor scuffles when police manhandled students and ripped up a banner.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority (EAC) yesterday admitted households could be faced with increases to their electricity bills over the next few years in the name of European Union harmonisation.
BIG Brother is coming to Cyprus in a Greek version being beamed into our homes from Greece from September 10.
Twelve contestants, referred to as housemates, will be living together in a house in Athens for 112 days, with one person being ‘evicted’ every 15 days.
POWER cables suspected of causing leukaemia to residents of a Limassol area will be relocated in six months, the Electricity Authority (EAC) said yesterday.
Speaking to a Limassol radio station, EAC Chairman George Georgiades said they had secured the necessary town planning permits to remove the overhead cables from a residential area and relocate them to a farming area.
A RIGHT-wing faction within teachers’ union OELMEK yesterday opposed a union decision to take radical measures in protest at the government’s failure to implement a promotions agreement.
UNEMPLOYMENT rates in Cyprus have decreased by 11.5 per cent in the first six months of this year.
According to the Statistics Department, in June of this year, 2.8 per cent of the working population was unemployed.
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.
