Dr Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and co-founder of Foreign Policy magazine, is like a dog that has only one trick: we’ve all seen it before, but he won’t stop doing it. We’re going to have to stop giving him biscuits.
RAUF DENKTASH may have played his last card when he announced on Wednesday that he would not be attending the four-party conference to be held in Switzerland next week.
ALITHIA: “22 dead in Serb-Albanian clashes”. More than 20 people were killed and hundreds injured in fighting between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the worst violence since the 1998-99 war, the paper reports. Arsonists set fire to several Serb houses in Obilic, forcing UN police and NATO troops to evacuate dozens of Serbs.
NEW airport landing charges will be implemented as of April 1, bringing Cyprus into line with EU directives. The landing charges had been slashed in the wake of the September 11 attacks in an effort to make Cyprus a more competitive destination. According to the Commissioner for Public Aid, they should have returned to their original levels last April, but were kept down because of the Gulf War.
GREEN Party deputy George Perdikis yesterday claimed he had information that the US would be allowed to set up air force bases in the north and in Paphos in the event of a solution.
CHILDREN and teenagers are being given the opportunity be part of an anti-smoking campaign by submitting their own poster in a competition organised by the Centre of Studies for children and teenagers in Cyprus and supported by UNOPS. The point of the competition is to make youngsters aware of the dangers of smoking and to discourage teenagers from taking up the habit.
Reinstatement of property Yesterday, we referred to the right of return of former residents of the four Karpasia villages (Yialoussa, Melanagra, Ayia Triada and Rizokarpaso), as well as former residents aged over 65 of all the areas that will come under the authority of the Turkish Cypriot state.
THE House Finance Committee yesterday agreed to change the proposed bill on banking confidentiality because in its current state it violates existing laws on the protection of personal data. The final amendments will be made next Monday, after which the bill will eventually be tabled before Parliament.
GENERAL indifference and the anticipation of a Cyprus problem solution has left very few people interested in the Euro elections, as the deadline for registering on the electoral roll draws nearer. Only 2,400 people from a potential 150,000 have added their names to the current electoral roll, giving them the automatic right to vote in this summer’s euro elections.
THE prime ministers of Greece and Turkey will attend UN-backed Cyprus reunification talks in Switzerland on March 28, officials said yesterday, raising hopes of a breakthrough in the thorny negotiations.
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.
