THE EXPLOSION of violence between Pontian Greeks and police in Paphos this week is a disturbing symptom of the problems the community has faced in integrating into Cypriot society over recent years.
KATYA DIOGENOUS on the joys of a cruise around Crete, Symi and Rhodes
WITH luggage in one hand and passport in the other, I boarded Louis’ cruise ship Sapphire and, breathing in the sea air, prepared myself for a voyage headed for Crete, Symi and Rhodes.
TURKISH Cypriot businessman Salih Boyaci returned to jail on Wednesday after spending three months in hospital in Istanbul.
Boyaci, who is Serdar Denktash’s father-in-law, was jailed for six years earlier this year for embezzling funds from his bankrupted Cyprus Credit Bank. In March, however, he was released in order to undergo medical treatment in Turkey.
DISABLED people from all over Cyprus yesterday converged on the Presidential Palace and Parliament to submit a memorandum of protest to President Tassos Papadopoulos and House President Demetris Christofias accusing the state of failing to implement measures that would ensure the basic human rights of people with disabilities.
THE Coalition For Europe yesterday announced it would be holding its founding congress next week while the party’s national congress would be held after the summer.
Speaking at a news conference, former DISY deputy Prodromos Prodromou noted that no one “can belong to the coalition and any other political party at the same time”.
TURKISH Cypriot ‘police’ barred a Turkish journalist from crossing to the north on Wednesday because he had entered the island via Larnaca, it emerged yesterday.
THE MEDIA in Cyprus is slanted and needs deconstructing if people want to get an objective account of the facts, according to one non-governmental organisation (NGO) arranging workshops to train people how to use a critical approach when hearing or reading the news.
LEBANESE-backed mobile phone company Scancom, the winners of the island’s first private GSM licence to rival CyTA, are due to enter the market by the middle of next month.
Lebanese-backed Scancom, which will operate under the trade name Areeba, hopes to have its services up and running before July 12, reports said yesterday.
EXPERTS from the Forestry Department yesterday announced they had succeeded in producing the first artificially incubated Griffon vulture.
Zeus, a seven-kilo vulture, was born 81 days ago from an egg that was taken by vultures at the Limassol zoo and incubated in Nicosia eight days after the egg was laid.
SIMERINI: “Discussions over casino”. Commerce Minister George Lillikas met with Green Party representatives to discuss the issue of creating a casino in Cyprus. The Greens party said the matter could not be examined solely from a financial point of view, but must also take into consideration the social consequences a casino would have on the island.
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.
