By George Psyllides
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday hailed Turkey’s lifting of the ban on Greek Cypriots visiting the country, but said it was nothing less than Turkey had to do to meet its international and especially EU obligations.
By Alexia Saoulli
THE TOURIST season could be on the mend and might even close on a positive note after getting off to a shaky start, with arrivals well below average in April, Tourism Minister George Lillikas said yesterday
By a Staff Reporter
THE EUROPEAN Union’s top enlargement official yesterday expressed cautious optimism that a peace settlement for Cyprus was still possible before the divided island joins the bloc next May.
By George Psyllides
GOVERNMENT Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides yesterday slammed the allegations made by Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash in an interview with Politis, describing it as more proof of the occupation’s sinister face.
By a Staff Reporter
BY THE end of last week, around 20,000 Turkish Cypriots had visited District Offices around the island to apply for passports, identity cards and birth certificates, Interior Minister Andreas Christou said yesterday.
By George Psyllides
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday warned it could not provide security to citizens visiting the north, while denouncing the Turkish Cypriot regime’s blacklist of unwanted Greek Cypriots as illegal.
On Sunday, a Greek Cypriot man was prevented from crossing to the occupied north after his name showed up on a blacklist by the Turkish Cypriot regime.
By Sofia Kannas
MORE than 30 containers of asbestos waste will be buried near the old Amiantos mine, an Environment Services official said yesterday.
The move follows the announcement by the government in March of an asbestos removal programme worth several million pounds.
By a Staff Reporter
CYPRUS Airways trade unions have threatened strike measures at the beginning of next week if their new collective agreement demands are not met.
Union demands include 10.5 per cent pay rises and an extension of the age of retirement from 60 to 63 as part of their renewed collective agreements, which expired on December 31 last year.
By a Staff Reporter
ZERO visibility over Larnaca yesterday morning forced 15 planes to be redirected to Paphos, until dense fog began to clear up around 8am.
Larnaca airport closed down for three hours; the weather service said fog conditions were normal for this time of the year.
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.
