THE GOVERNMENT yesterday welcomed concrete signs from Ankara that Turkey was willing to revise its 30-year hardline stance on Cyprus.
Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou told the Cyprus Mail that it was good news, but advised a ‘wait and see attitude’.
DISY chief Nicos Anastassiades warned yesterday that party members were free to express their views until Saturday, when the party’s supreme council will formally decide who to support in the elections. After that, they should be ready to face the consequences of their actions.
THE GOVERNMENT Electrical and Mechanical Service (EMS) yesterday revealed that a leak at a gas storage area in Larnaca in October had been caused by faulty valves.
AUTHORITIES have reached a dead-end regarding the relocation of 300 or so gypsies currently situated in the Turkish Cypriot quarter of Limassol.
EFFORTS to furnish the new Finance Ministry on Byron Avenue are expected to cause chaos over the next few months, with extensive road works already paralysing the area, reports said yesterday.
THE UNIVERSITY of Cyprus’ Polytechnic School will start running undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the beginning of the next academic year in September, the administration said yesterday.
APART from a few isolated cases of panic, Cypriots living near a suspected terrorist poison lab in north London were taking the shock story in their stride yesterday.
COUPLES wanting to get married at just two weeks notice will have to pay £90 more than the usual fee for a civil wedding according to a new bill, reports said yesterday.
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.
