ALITHIA: “Million-pound bank transfer rush” In its lead story, the paper reported on the latest suspicion that Cypriot banks may have aided the Milosevic regime in breaking the embargo by agreeing to move around millions of dollars or German marks.
THE GREEK Cypriot who swam the English Channel last month has been forced by bad seas to abandon his latest challenge – a return swim to France and back Dr Julio Georgiou, 29, a lecturer at the Imperial College in London, had set himself the target of a two way swim across the Channel for the Radio Marathon charity.
FINDING a solution to the controversial student vacancies created at Cyprus University’s Polytechnic School is proving to be a brainteaser worthy of the country’s top legal minds, as suggested by yesterday’s unsuccessful House Education Committee.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos does not intend to call a National Council meeting over opposition DISY’s decision to allow a group of its officials to visit the occupied areas tomorrow, Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said yesterday.
HOTEL unions yesterday expressed concern over the possible effects of the resignation of the Cyprus Hoteliers Association (PASYXE) board on recently signed collective agreements between hoteliers and unions.
THE E.U. delegation in Cyprus will be stepping up its efforts to inform the public on membership issues from next month, ambassador Adriaan van der Meer said yesterday. Van der Meer was guest speaker at a news conference in Nicosia to launch a series of 10 EU-related seminars being organised by the European Institute of Cyprus (EIC).
CENTRAL Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou warned yesterday the current budgetary deficit could not be overcome without economic and political cost.
A 20 YEAR OLD man from Alasa was shot dead yesterday after an argument with his girlfriend’s father took a tragic turn. According to police, Stavros Michail, 40, a mechanic, returned from work at around 3.45pm to find his 16 year old daughter in her room with her boyfriend, Andreas Charalambous, in Limassol’s Turkish Cypriot quarter.
WELL, what a relief. The pupils must be delighted, the teachers must be chuckling at the guise of their protest. The former don’t have to listen to, the latter don’t have to read, the edifying missives from the Ministry of Education. Let’s face it, it was a chore, a boring formality dreaded by all involved.
THE SUPREME COURT’S ruling that post-dated cheques are not cheques in the eyes of the law is yet another set-back in the authorities’ efforts to put an end to the widespread phenomenon of bouncing cheques. But even if the legal validity of post-dated cheques has been ruled non-existent, their ability to bounce remains.
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.
