GREEK and Turkish Cypriot cancer patients furious at a Health Ministry decision to relocate Nicosia General Hospital’s Oncology department to Limassol, yesterday held a one-hour demonstration outside the House of Representatives.
PHILELEFTHEROS “Students buy cigarettes from school” Gone are the days when chocolates and soft drinks were considered unsuitable to be sold at school, now students are able to purchase cigarettes at their school canteen. The president of the Parents’ Association said the problem was about a specific canteen at one Lyceum.
JOHN Corbidge, who died on Monday night at the age of 68, was inspired by the light of the Mediterranean, where he spent all of his adult life. Born in Sheffield in 1935, he turned his back on the cold, grey skies of northern England, saying he could not live in a place where the sun almost never shone. Yorkshire was no place for a man with a Mediterranean temperament, like Corbidge.
TODAY is the last day to submit application forms to receive new child benefit cheques before the end of the year, the government’s Grants and Allowance Service has warned. Petros Christoforou, director of the service, stressed yesterday that if families wanted to get their benefit before the end of this year, today would be the last day to hand in the forms.
GREEN Party deputy George Perdikis said yesterday his party would fight any possible closure of the Armenian Melkonian Institute and would urge the government to save the school. Speaking from an environmental point of view, Perdikis told the Cyprus Mail he would fight any move to turn the Melkonian grounds into a high-rise or residential area.
TURKEY’S European course could be affected by its failure to pay refugee Titina Loizidou by next week’s final deadline from the Council of Europe, Foreign Minister George Iacovou said yesterday.
CYPRUS: LOCAL film distributors yesterday warned the public and law enforcers that piracy in Cyprus was reaching crisis proportions. K-Cineplex owner Dimis Karapatakis argued that millions had been invested in the film industry but piracy was ruining business.
LOCAL film distributors held a news conference yesterday to warn the public and law enforcers that piracy in Cyprus was reaching crisis proportions. K-Cineplex owner Dimis Karapatakis argued that millions had been invested in the film industry but that piracy was ruining business.
AS CYPRUS rushes to carry out last-minute measures ahead of EU accession, with tax reforms that effectively end the ‘offshore’ status of overseas companies, it appears the bulk of the foreign business community has no intention of leaving the island.
AN ANCIENT play is to be staged for the first time in more than 2,050 years after fragments of the text were found stuffed in an Egyptian mummy. The national theatre company, THOC, plans a modern-day world premiere of Aeschylus’s Trojan War story Achilles in Cyprus next summer. The play will then be performed on the island and in Greece.
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.
