THE government team negotiating with the preferred bidder for the building and operation of the island’s new airport at Larnaca and the upgrading of Paphos airport handed over its conclusions to the Communications and Works Minister yesterday.
THE Communications Ministry was yesterday looking at various alternative venues to house its new state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control Centre (ACC) after a Nicosia site had to be abandoned due to health concerns.
THE end of the season has arrived for Cyprus’ most popular TV series and what an end it was. The long-awaited marriage between Nastazia and Socratis in Sigma’s Vourate Geitonoi was finally filmed on Sunday with massive participation from the general public.
MORAL outrage was the predictable reaction to the media reports about the sexual licentiousness encouraged on the Fantasy Boat Party, which has become something of an Ayia Napa attraction. But for police to arrest and charge the owner of the boat and two others with committing ‘public indecency’ was a knee-jerk reaction that betrayed a complete lack of common sense.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “Tough battle on measures” A behind-the-scenes “battle” is raging between Brussels and Nicosia over the package of measures the European Commission plans to announce on financial and other assistance to the Turkish Cypriot community.
METAL workers yesterday called off an imminent strike, following a last-minute mediation effort by the Labour Ministry.
The strike, set to start today, would have been indefinite and might have set the stage for more drastic action across other industrial sectors as workers and their employers wrangled over wage increases and social security contributions.
HEALTH Minister Dina Akkelidou said yesterday children as young as 12 were taking addictive substances. The revelation came from statistics drawn up with figures from all the drug prevention and rehabilitation centres on the island last year, and also showed that the vast majority of adult drug users were men.
THE Olympic torch relay will cross to occupied Nicosia areas if the Turkish Cypriot regime agrees to the conditions set by the government concerning the route, Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said yesterday.
The government’s conditions are aimed at preventing the event from being exploited politically by the regime, he added.
POLITICAL parties were yesterday outraged at plans by the European Commission to go ahead with plans for direct trade to the north, saying it would not help bring about an eventual settlement.
THE Ayia Napa Fantasy Boat, which gained notoriety in recent days following allegations that orgies were taking place on board, chose a different departure point on Saturday to avoid unwanted attention from the media and the authorities, the Cyprus Mail has learned.
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.
