EU Council President and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is arriving in Cyprus today for a quick chat and a cup of tea before leaving again on his whistle stop tour of the 24 countries of the enlarged EU.
GOVERNEMENT officials are facing an uphill battle in imposing an EU environmental protection programme on angry local communities, saying officials trying to inform villagers of the changes involved had been threatened with violence on several occasions.
MOTORISTS are being warned of a new rise in prices at the pumps due to the increase in international oil prices, according to Trade Minister George Lillikas.
Meetings will be held tomorrow with all those involved to discuss the matter, as well as the impact any new rise would have on the broader economy.
LOCAL tour operators are considering one-day excursions to the occupied areas under pressure from foreign tour operators, the House Commerce Committee heard yesterday.
The committee discussed the issue of tourism and the repercussions from the recent passing of the EU Green Line regulation, which has paved the way for holidays to the north.
IN just under two months the Olympic flame will land in Cyprus to make its historic trip around the island before it returns to Greece to open the games in August.
THE ever-more sickening stream of photographs of abused Iraqi prisoners is doing incalculable damage to American and British credibility in Iraq, plunging the forces of occupation into a crisis that goes beyond the purely military quagmire they are in.
THE PUBLIC deficit cannot be wished away with a magic wand, the Central Bank Governor said yesterday, warning starkly that belts would have to be tightened to save the economy.
Christodoulos Christodoulou stressed the need for immediate measures to control the public deficit and public debt, adding drastic spending cuts would be required.
HOUSE president Demetris Christofias yesterday dismissed claims he was trying to bypass President Tassos Papadopoulos by requesting a meeting with the Greek Prime Minister.
Christofias met Costas Karamanlis in Athens yesterday.
DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades said yesterday his party will not abandon the Cyprus problem and would be visiting EU capitals and meeting with the European Parliament in the hope of lessening the negative consequences of the resounding no in last month’s referendum on the Annan plan.
DISY Kyrenia deputy Christodoulos Taramountas yesterday announced his resignation from the party’s parliamentary team and his decision not to attend any more executive meetings.
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.
