THE FINAL decision on the fate of 12 of the 13 Palestinians holed up at a Larnaca hotel will be made in Brussels today, the EU’s Middle East envoy Miguel Moratinos said in Cyprus yesterday.
A LIMASSOL cabaret waiter was yesterday remanded in custody for four days on suspicion of beating a British man after he refused to pay a hefty bill.
ALL issues relating to the Cyprus problem will be on the agenda of talks that President Glafcos Clerides will hold in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis tomorrow.
CYPRUS has “basically closed” the chapter regarding competition in the EU acquis communautaire and will soon close a part of the agriculture chapter regarding veterinary and phytosanitary measures, Cyprus’ chief EU negotiator George Vassiliou said yesterday after a meeting with Michael Leigh, Director at the Enlargement Directorate General of the European Commission.
A NICOSIA private school has designed a questionnaire that assesses what level of English language entrance exam paper candidates should sit.
AN EPIDEMIC is about to hit Cyprus and it appears that nobody from the government is prepared to do anything about it. The condition is called ‘Mundialitis’, a particularly virulent and debilitating infection mainly affecting men.
FIRE FIGHTERS yesterday demonstrated their new Disaster Reaction Unit as the Chief of the Fire Department George Hadjigeorghiou, Justice Minister Nicos Koshis and other dignitaries officially launched Fire Safety Week.
PUPILS at a Limassol primary school neighbouring a foundry yesterday refused to enter their classrooms for two periods, protesting about the unhealthy conditions created by the foundry’s operation.
The area’s residents, near Zakaki, have demanded the closure of the Nemitsas foundry for years because they say it gives them health problems.
NICOSIA General Hospital has introduced laparoscopic surgical procedures aimed at helping obese people lose weight, a surgeon said yesterday.
But one man who has had the operation done privately is afraid that state doctors are using Cypriots as guinea pigs to practice this highly specialised technique.
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.
