JILL CAMPBELL MACKAY finds there is a piece of pine furniture to suit every occasion and price bracket THE SHEER beauty of any solid wood is that it has a timeless appeal and stripped pine in particular is a particularly attractive timber. It gives off such a welcoming, warm glow, which enhances any room in the house.
CAR dealers were yesterday facing a flood of inquiries from potential customers after Parliament on Thursday approved legislation, which dramatically slashed the cost of most new cars. Buoyant dealers said now was “definitely the time to be out buying a car”, with prices plunging as much as £50,000 in one top-of-the-range case.
CYPRUS held the worst record for bigamy in the world, claimed DISY deputy Christodoulos Taramoundas at a House Committee meeting, earlier this week. This dubious record was not achieved because Cypriots had a predilection for having two matrimonial partners at the same time, but because of ignorance of the law.
ALITHIA: “Environmentalists disagree over new Defence Ministry building”. The Green Party has expressed its concern over plans to go ahead and build the new Defence Ministry in the area opposite the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia. The Party’s Nicosia district committee said such a development would destroy yet another one of the capital’s historical monuments.
BUILDERS have discovered an ancient tomb hidden underneath a house in the Ayioi Omoloyites suburb of Nicosia when renovation works on the house began this week. Construction Worker Costas Constantinou opened a hole, half a metre wide that revealed a space five feet below the surface and decided to investigate by squeezing down the shaft. “I saw two rooms which were eight metres wide each.
PROPOSALS to amend the existing criminal record system have been suggested by the Justice Ministry in an effort to facilitate minor offenders seeking employment in posts requiring a clean police record.
BELEAGURED Paralimni Mayor Nikos Vlittis is refusing to quit despite eight members of his municipal council demanding he step down.
U.S. STATE Department Co-ordinator for Cyprus Thomas Weston said yesterday that the Annan plan was the only realistic short-term chance for a Cyprus settlement. Weston was speaking at a bi-commual news conference in Nicosia, at which he answered questions regarding rumours of other plans that may be in the offing.
POLICE have taken extra measures to increase security outside embassies in Cyprus after this week’s devastating terrorist attacks on British targets in Istanbul. Patrol cars have been stationed outside the American, Israeli and Russian Embassies and the British High Commission as they are considered to be prime targets for terrorist attack.
FOR THE first time in almost 30 years, the call to prayer sounded from the top of the minaret of the Baraktar Mosque in Nicosia yesterday, as the leader of the Turkish Cypriot Muslim community, Sheikh Nazim Kibrisi, crossed to the free areas for an unprecedented ceremony to mark the reopening of the shrine, closed since the Turkish invasion in 1974.
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.
