By Jean Christou
LORD David Hannay, Britain’s special envoy for Cyprus since 1996, has bowed out of the island’s political problem and will not be replaced unless the need arises, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced to the House of Commons yesterday.
By Stefanos Evripidou
OVERCROWDED, rundown houses filled with foreign students and workers are raising serious health concerns for people living within the Nicosia city walls.
According to one parking attendant, the situation has got so bad that tenants are filling buckets with human waste and dumping them on his parking lot.
By Tania Khadder
PEYIA residents still aren’t getting their mail, despite insistence from the Paphos post office and the central post office that the situation there has been sorted out.
One British resident living in the Paphos village called the Cyprus Mail yesterday morning and said it had been six weeks since she last got her mail.
By Sofia Kannas
RESIDENTS of the Green Line checkpoint village of Strovilia have been told by authorities in the occupied north to apply to them for electricity, water and telephone lines, British Bases Police confirmed yesterday.
By a Staff Reporter
UNEMPLOYMENT rose slightly in April, but Cyprus continues to have the best rate among acceding countries and the third best overall among the 25 EU member-states, according to Eurostat.
The unemployment rate in Cyprus in April reached 4.3 per cent compared to 4.2 per cent in March, while the average rate in the EU was 8.1 per cent for both months.
By a Staff Reporter
THE Cabinet yesterday decided to slash the number of people using Larnaca airport’s VIP lounge, and to set up a second lounge whose users would have to pay a fee.
By a Staff Reporter
THREE Limassol men were yesterday remanded in custody for five days on suspicion of possessing and trafficking one kilogram of cannabis.
Around nine kilos of cannabis have been found in Limassol in the past two weeks.
The latest seizure was made in a garage in the suburb of Zakaki after a tip off.
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.
