THE RECTOR of the University of Cyprus, Nicolas Papamichael, handed in his resignation yesterday after the Plenum’s decision to grant students 33 per cent representation in department councils. Papamichael condemned this percentage as excessive.
THE CHURCH was yesterday faced with new revelations about the plundering of its property, as the Bishop of Paphos admitted the Holy Synod should have looked into the issue years ago.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides expressed the government’s full support for the Cyprus Institute at its inaugural meeting yesterday, announcing through the immediate grant of state land upon which the education and research facilities would be built, thereby moving the project one step closer to reality.
THE ACCOUNTANT-general and the Land Survey Department are to study land appropriation procedures in order to spot the weak points and avoid future irregularities, Interior Minister Andreas Panayiotou said yesterday.
DIKO chairman Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday denied any links to Borislav Milosevic, brother of the former Yugoslav president and genocide suspect Slobodan Milosevic, attributing recent local media reports to a deliberate campaign aimed at smearing his image ahead of the upcoming presidential elections.
INVESTIGATIONS into Thursday morning’s shooting outside a Nicosia nightclub had yesterday still produced no concrete leads, as police continued piecing together eyewitness accounts amid concerns of a possible wave of gangland violence.
BRITAIN yesterday categorically denied that its special envoy for Cyprus Lord David Hannay had spoken of two sovereign states on the island during an interview with CNN Turk.
“I have no difficulty to state right away that Lord Hannay did not speak of an independent, sovereign state in the north,” a Foreign Office spokesman in London said.
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.
