CHRISTMAS is normally a time of over-spending, but not this year after the banks put the brakes on credit and debit card use.
Shopkeepers are already feeling the pinch, and it will get worse over the next nine days if a dispute between the Bankers Employers Association and the Bank Employees Union (ETYK) is not resolved.
A MAN was killed while trying to cross the road in Limassol yesterday. Police said the victim, whose name has not yet been released, was believed to be 70 to 75 years old. He was hit while crossing Ayias Fylaxeos Street. He was critically injured and died in hospital.
WE’RE ALMOST IN. We may regret it later, but now is no time for introspection or self-doubt. This is a time for carefree celebration and ecstatic joy — not only did we get the final go-ahead to join the big European family, but this was given without conditions or strings attached (as some of our professional doom-sayers had been predicting for weeks).
The Cyprus Broadcasting Authority (CBA) yesterday announced its findings into 20 complaints of alleged violations of legislation governing radio and television stations.
The cases involved 71 violations including human rights, personal privacy, objectivity, accuracy, equality and unsuitable material broadcast at inappropriate times.
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.
