THE government will continuously meet European Commission officials to discuss the implementation of the Green Line regulation adopted last month. Yesterday’s meeting in Brussels between the two sides raised differences over the issue of direct trade with the north and concern over the imposition of penalties on free movement.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday he believed that new prospects and new possibilities would emerge that would help find a solution to the Cyprus problem. European principles could help formulate the appropriate conditions for a solution that would address the legitimate concerns of Greek and Turkish Cypriots, he told an audience at the opening of the 29th International Fair yesterday.
TEMPORARY doctors are being hired by the state with forged diplomas or inadequate qualifications, while surgeons who had not touched a scalpel for years could not perform their duties when hired, the House Health Committee heard yesterday.
SOCIAL workers will be able to initiate a medical examination of a minor if there is reasonable suspicion of the child’s abuse, according to a new bill discussed in the House yesterday.
The bill also provides for the criminal prosecution of people who fail to report serious incidents of abuse in families involving minors or mentally handicapped persons.
FORMER DISY chief Yiannakis Matsis yesterday announced he would be contesting the European elections with his own list, and urged those who had voted ‘no’ in the April 24 referendum to join him.
KYRENIA deputy Christodoulos Taramountas took his new seat in parliament yesterday, joining former DISY rebels Prodromos Prodromou and Rikkos Erotocritou, after he resigned from DISY’s parliamentary team on Tuesday.
EVERY day, thousands of Turkish Cypriots brave the crowds at the District Office in Nicosia to obtain identity cards and passports as a way of gaining access to some of the benefits of EU membership.
SALES of new cars have soared this year following last year’s tax reform that resulted in prices of new vehicles under 1.8 litre engine capacity dropping dramatically.
THERE are over 30,000 illegal immigrants in Cyprus, Police Chief Tassos Panayiotou said yesterday.
Police have arrested 1,550 so far this year – most have already been deported – compared to 3,800 arrests made in the whole of 2003.
THE Foreign Ministry said yesterday it was studying a request from the European committee of local and regional authorities to change the composition of the Cypriot delegation to include a Turkish Cypriot representative.
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.
