RAUF Denktash has said he would advise Turkish Cypriots to reject the Annan plan in the referendum if he came away from the current talks dissatisfied with the changes made. The veteran Turkish Cypriot leader was speaking in an interview with Turkish Cypriot television Bayrak late on Tuesday. “In its current shape the plan would mean our removal (from the island) in a short time,” Denktash said.
AT LAST, mainstream politicians have begun to defy the critics by openly countering the negative barrage of information and argument from opponents of the Annan plan. For the last three days, AKEL big guns Andreas Christou and Kikis Kazamias have been blasting away at the dire warnings about the cost of a solution.
SIMERINI: “They’re bringing a constitution from Turkey”. Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Mehmet Ali Talat and ‘foreign minister’ Serdar Denktash flew to Turkey on Tuesday in order to discuss the Turkish Cypriot constituent state’s eventual constitution.
AN 18-month-old baby girl has died from a cardiac arrest due to possible lung complications brought on by ingesting nuts. Makarios hospital’s paediatric cardiologist, Dr Panayiotis Zarvos, told the Cyprus Mail yesterday that Constantina Avraam from Liopetri was admitted to Makarios hospital last Friday suffering from breathing difficulties.
THE Chairman of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce, Ali Erel, said yesterday the implementation of the Annan Plan would have major economic benefits for both communities on the island that would far outweigh the social and economic costs of failure to see its implementation. “Whether it’s going to cost half a billion or two billion, it makes no difference. We have to pay it.
EUROPA Donna, the European Breast Cancer Coalition, is seeking to raise awareness about the disease with a lecture next week by Dr Alberto Costa on ‘Breast Cancer Surgery – What every woman should know’.
THE CONSTITUTION of the United Republic of Cyprus, as well as the constitutions of the two constituent states, must be based on the principles of the rule of law, democracy and representative republican government.
POLICE have arrested a 37-year-old Belgian man living in Larnaca after they found 768 ecstasy pills in his possession. At 9.45pm on Tuesday, the drug squad pulled over a car driven by the Belgian man and found he was holding a plastic bag containing 289 ecstasy pills. Searching his home, police then found another 479 ecstasy tablets and £1,330 in cash.
THE international community is suggesting five points that could be changed in the Annan plan, which could satisfy both sides, reports said yesterday.
HOUSE President Demetris Christofias yesterday stressed the need to avoid abusive name-calling following comments by DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides that politicians and the media should watch their vocabulary when talking about Turkish Cypriot politicians, who might be partners of tomorrow.
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.
