PRO-solution movements and rapprochement groups are engaged in a flurry of activity ahead of the February 28 deadline and the expected submittal of a third amended UN plan.
FISCAL reforms are taxing yacht owners out of Cyprus, with 12 having already set sail, taking their boats and business to cheaper shores.
More are expected to follow suit, at a time when the government is inviting tenders for the building of four new marinas as part of efforts to expand nautical tourism.
PRESIDENTIAL candidates and their spin-doctors upped the ante yesterday in the wake of the latest opinion polls and amid reports that the UN’s Plan 3 was on the cards.
An Iranian-born Cypriot businessman kidnapped by American agents in 1992 on suspicion of violating sanctions against Libya has won half a billion dollars in damages against the US in a Tehran court.
COMPLAINTS of an increase in the number of cancer and leukaemia among residents in Lakatamia and Ayios Dhometios in Nicosia have prompted the Health Ministry to launch a large-scale medical investigation across the island, an official confirmed.
BRITISH businessman Graham Cockroft, who was thrown out of Cyprus in 2001, was legally deported, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Cockroft, 56, ran a Cyprus-based company Rockpool Homes Ltd in a joint venture with Cypriot partners in Pissouri to build solar-powered houses; he was deported in August 2001, with only the clothes on his back.
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.
