“THAT enormous sucking sound you hear,” third-party candidate Ross Perot told American voters during the 1992 presidential campaign, “is American jobs disappearing south to Mexico.” But now the enormous sucking sound comes from west across the Pacific: US Treasury Secretary John Snow reckons that America has lost 2.4 million manufacturing jobs to China.
TURKEY yesterday finally handed over the 1.2 million euros owed to Titina Loizidou as compensation for the violation of her right to peaceful enjoyment of her property in occupied Kyrenia.
FOR YEARS now, deputies and their respective parties have been paying lip service to the need for anti-corruption legislation that would force every politician and high state official to submit a declaration of assets and interests on assuming office.
SIMERINI: “New theft of evidence”. Thieves broke into an evidence storage warehouse at Dherynia police station in the Famagusta district and made off with two motorbikes. The assailants cut through the wire chains used to lock the only entry point into the warehouse, which is situated just 25 metres away from the police station itself.
Turkish Cypriot caught with 500gr heroin POLICE YESTERDAY arrested a Turkish Cypriot man who had half a kilo of heroin in his possession. Responding to an anonymous call, the Larnaca police monitored an area of Oroklini. At 2.00pm yesterday a man was seen stepping out of his car and police approached him asking to see his identification.
ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was forced to skip a meeting with president Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday because of a recurring illness, an Italian government source said. In a statement Government Spokesperson Kypros Chrysostomides said Papadopoulos instead met with Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini.
CASES FOR asylum seekers in Cyprus have rocketed as November records show an increase of 866 asylum seekers applying for refugee status, an official at the investigation office of refugees revealed yesterday. Just nine cases were reported in April, which increased to 105 cases in May and has been increasing since.
NEW drivers under 25-years-old would be getting double points for speeding according to a traffic bill currently under study.
THREE MEN arrested on Monday on suspicion of being involved in the misappropriation of church property were yesterday remanded for eight days. Paphos Bishop Chrysostomos said yesterday he was saddened by the arrests but insisted they were necessary.
HUNDREDS of Turkish Cypriot workers marched on the Turkish Cypriot “parliament” yesterday to protest a new form introduced at the Ledra Palace checkpoint by the authorities. At the beginning of the day, workers gathered as usual at the Turkish Cypriot side of the checkpoint to cross into the free areas and were handed forms by checkpoint guards to fill out.
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.
