NATIONAL Council members were booed and whistled at on their way to a crucial meeting with President Glafcos Clerides at the Presidential Palace last night as hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest against the Annan plan.
A BILL is being prepared to deregulate the electricity industry in Cyprus, Commerce Minister Nicos Rolandis announced yesterday.
AROUND 10,000 Turkish Cypriots yesterday took to the streets to protest against the UN plan for the reunification of Cyprus. The demonstrators, gathered in one of occupied Nicosia’s main squares waving Turkish and Turkish Cypriot flags. Banners read “Yes to peace, no to the Annan plan” and “We trust Denktash … We will not be slaves”, news agency reports from the north said.
AN ONGOING strike at JCC Payment Systems Limited is poised to send the economy into chaos, as the Commercial Bankers Association prepares to halt all credit and debit card transactions in Cyprus this week.
THE PARASKEVAIDION Transplant Centre in Nicosia yesterday confirmed that surgeons there had carried out a transplant on a young Turkish Cypriot man after he was turned away by doctors in both Turkey and the north.
THE URBAN Taxi Federation yesterday agreed to call off an indefinite strike over demands for an increase in taxi fares after the Communications Ministry pledged to discuss the issue with the Department of Transport today.
THE Election service announced yesterday that for the first time special election centres would be operating at the island’s embassies abroad for February’s presidential elections.
THE SUPREME Court has rejected for a second time an appeal by a Larnaca model agency to set up a licensed brothel in Cyprus. The company ‘LD High Heels Model Agency Ltd’ applied to the Interior Ministry in March 2001 for a licence to run a brothel, requesting 20 work permits for female escorts.
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.
