THE House yesterday postponed discussion on the controversial billboard bill for the third time in two months, raising more doubts over its will to ban the thousands of advertising hoardings that litter the roads and pose a hazard for drivers.
POLICE and customs officials have been fingered in a report into a botched police investigation during the assembled luxury car scam last September, Phileleftheros reported yesterday.
Deputy Attorney-general Petros Clerides and Police Chief Tassos Panyiotou were unavailable for comment on the issue yesterday.
THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday voted to abolish the professional tax levied by municipalities and local authorities on people working within their jurisdiction.
AFTER more than 5,000 years of wine making, the Cypriot viticulture industry must drastically reinvent itself in order to survive in the European Union, officials said yesterday.
HOW DO you convince people who are bent on hating each other that they share a common ground? How do you promote social harmony and moral education to an international audience brimming with internal conflict and social dilemmas?
THE COST of a packet of cigarettes will rise by ten cents as of today following a bill passed by the House plenum last night.
The hike was part of a series of adjustments passed by the House which also saw a rise in domestic fuel prices, a cut of up to two cents in the price of petrol and a rise in diesel prices of as much as 5.5 cents per litre.
BAD weather yesterday caused a ship to run aground off Limassol while two airplanes were diverted from Larnaca airport to Paphos because the runway was flooded from torrential rain.
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.
