Health Minister Dina Akkelidou yesterday confirmed plans to promote and increase awareness of healthy lifestyle issues within schools. The drive follows reports that more and more children are leading progressively unhealthier lives, with a large percentage of today’s youth suffering from obesity, she said.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday he trusted the people’s judgement in deciding how to vote in the referendum on the Annan plan. Papadopoulos was commenting on statements made by US special envoy Thomas Weston on Sunday, that whichever said ‘no’ in the referenda would pay a heavy price.
ALITHIA: “Woe unto those that shall vote ‘no’”. US State Department Special Envoy Thomas Weston was brimming with confidence on his arrival on Sunday that “the people of Cyprus will assume their historic responsibilities in voting ‘yes’ for the settlement, thereby achieving a settlement before Cyprus enters the EU.” Otherwise, the side that says ‘no’ will bear an incredibly heavy burden.
CYPRUS’ most famous poet Costas Montis died at the age of 90 yesterday at his home in Ayios Dhometios. Montis was born in Famagusta in 1914. He studied law at Athens University and went on to compose dozens of collections of poems, as well as novels and translated works for theatre. He wrote works for Greece as well as poetry about his island.
AN EMPLOYEE of the Inland Revenue and his wife were remanded in custody for two days after being arrested at the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint on Sunday in connection with a cigarette smuggling operation, police confirmed yesterday.
A 46-YEAR-old Limassol police officer has been remanded for five days and suspended from the force pending an investigation into claims by a 27-year-old Moldavian woman that she was raped in her cell on Saturday.
THE enforcement of the Foundation Agreement will bring into existence a new state of affairs with the United Republic of Cyprus, which will be an independent state, member of the United Nations with a single international legal personality and sovereignty.
KYRENIA district municipalities and associations yesterday blasted the Annan plan, saying accepting it was tantamount to national catastrophe. At a gathering held at Nicosia’s International Conference Centre on Sunday, speakers vilified the plan in its current form, but said they supported President Papadopoulos’ efforts for a just solution.
U.S. STATE Department Special Co-ordinator for Cyprus Thomas Weston yesterday met party leaders, seeking to play down the furore caused by his warnings that whoever rejected the Annan plan would have to pay a heavy price.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday challenged the United States to put a figure on the “generous” aid promised by American envoy Thomas Weston in the event of a solution.
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.
