THE next steps in the Cyprus negotiations should become clear by the weekend, informed sources said yesterday, with time running out for the signing of an initial agreement by the December 12 EU summit deadline.
Both leaders are expected to hand in their comments on the UN plan by tomorrow.
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Averoff Neophytou yesterday assured that the telecommunications market would be fully liberalised by the end of the year.
STROVOLOS Mayor Savvas Eliophotou yesterday denied any wrongdoing and defended the municipality against a damning report by the Auditor-general (AG) about delays in submitting accounts for audit and pay rises to staff the AG considered to be illegal.
WITH Christmas just weeks away, a senior Interior Ministry official yesterday urged shoppers to be vigilant when out buying toys for their children.
Although Competition and Consumer Department inspectors carry out frequent spot checks on all products, severe staff shortages prevent them from visiting all toy stores and testing every single product.
THE LARNACA District Court yesterday handed down 18-month sentences to three out of four Liopetri men found guilty of abducting a Finnish tourist and having sex with her without her consent.
THE ENGLISH School looking for a new headmaster. Again.
The prestigious Nicosia secondary school has placed advertisements in newspapers for the position, currently held by Robert Swan, whose contract expires on August 31.
The school’s recent pattern of revolving administrators will make the next headmaster the fourth in eight years.
AFTER 28 years, Alkiviades Street in Nicosia is being re-opened for traffic after being closed off since the 1974 invasion.
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.
