Outrage as developers in the north wreck grade 1 archaeological site
A FIERCE row has broken out between the Turkish Cypriot ‘department of antiquities and museums’ and a construction company over what the department claims is the “illegal destruction of a grade one archaeological site” at Vounos, near Kazafani, to make way for luxury homes.
FOR MANY of the tens of thousands of tourists to Cyprus, one of the first areas they see upon their arrival at Larnaca Airport is the Salt Lake. It is, without doubt, a jewel in the crown.
THE ATTORNEY-general’s office is set to appeal a district court judge’s decision not to sentence five Pakistani men who were charged with entering the Republic through an illegal port in the north.
The five men were arrested after admitting they had crossed over to the south after arriving on the island through the illegal airport at Tymbou.
THE Greek Cypriot side got off lightly in UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan’s critical report on the failed Cyprus negotiations, diplomats said yesterday.
They were responding to a seven-page letter sent by President Tassos Papadopoulos to Annan this week, which was circulated at the UN Security Council as an official document.
CYPRUS was represented for the first time ever at the 50th anniversary conference of the top-secret prestigious Bilderberg group in Italy last weekend, it was confirmed yesterday.
THE CABINET has approved guidelines for an Interior Ministry housing policy aimed at reducing rural depopulation, a ministry official confirmed yesterday.
Speaking to the Cyprus Mail yesterday, Rea Kourtelli said the ministry had prepared final criteria and proposals that would see the introduction of rural development schemes and state subsidy to people with special needs.
THE Turkish Cypriot ‘council of ministers’ has ratified a bill that if passed by ‘parliament’ could make smoking illegal in many public buildings and force restaurant and bar owners to create separate no smoking areas.
TRUCK drivers have warned they would go on indefinite strike unless the Communications Ministry revokes all ‘B’ licences issued since last October.
The decision was taken at a truck drivers’ union (POVEK) meeting on Wednesday evening in Limassol.
LYCEUM students are forced to watch anti-abortion documentaries and look at pamphlets containing graphic images of aborted embryos.
The Security Council will vote today on a draft resolution that may see the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus being withdrawn.
The US has said that it does not believe the peacekeeping force (UNFICYP) need stay on the island for longer than three months, however the government would like them to remain in Cyprus until at least December.
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.
