THE HOUSE Human Rights Committee yesterday censured the government for its continued indifference to the needs of prison inmates suffering from mental problems.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash said yesterday a recent European Union-backed deal for a new union between Montenegro and Serbia offered a model for Cyprus.
Earlier this month, Montenegrin and Serbian leaders agreed to revamp the state into a loose union and name it Serbia and Montenegro. Either side can opt out after three years.
THUNDER, lightening, strong winds, rain and even snow are on the cards today and possibly tomorrow, Meteorological Service Head, Kyriakos Theofilou, warned yesterday.
But despite the gloomy weather that has shrouded the island since Monday, he could not predict whether the rainfall would last further into the spring.
THE CTO yesterday defended an advertising campaign slammed in Ireland as “sexist and tacky”.
Cyprus Tourism Officer Lefkos Phylactides would not comment on the specific ad, but said the campaign aimed to highlight the diversity that Cyprus had to offer.
CYPRUS plans to open a public consultation by Friday into its plans to open its fixed-line and mobile telecoms service to competition, a precursor to inviting tenders for licences, the industry regulator said yesterday.
PLANS to allow cremations in Cyprus are unlikely to get beyond the drawing board if the Church has its way, as a Bishop yesterday slammed the practice as alien and unorthodox.
Speaking before a meeting of the House Interior Affairs Committee, Bishop Vassilios of Trimithounta said the Church disagreed with cremation on theological and traditional grounds.
The Citizens’ Movement for Re-unification and Co-existence yesterday stated its determination to bring the Greek and the Turkish Cypriot communities closer in its first news conference after it was founded two months ago.
A COALITION between AKEL, DIKO and possibly KISOS for next year’s presidential elections yesterday appeared the most possible scenario, as DIKO ruled out the idea of co-operating with ruling DISY.
Parties have already started wheeling and dealing to form alliances ahead of the February 2003 elections.
THE National Guard is being inspected by an Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) delegation, which arrived yesterday to confirm the government’s tally of reported military equipment.
A 66-year-old English Cypriot tourist died in a road accident in Larnaca yesterday.
The tourist, Theodosis Costis, was driving on the Larnaca to Kiti road at about 7.30pm when his rented car was in collision with a taxi coming in the opposite direction.
One of the passengers in the taxi was also seriously injured.
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.
