IT WAS an extraordinary event, a sight few of us could have expected to see, especially in the bitter aftermath of the failed referendum to reunite our island: a packed church of Ayios Mamas in Morphou, the Byzantine chanting carried through loudspeakers across a city from where it had been banished for 30 years, an extraordinary message of peace, love and reconciliation delivered by a man of the
PRIVATE mobile phone service operator areeba has concluded a roaming deal with CyTA and expects to launch this weekend, reports said yesterday.
For the past month, the company has been operating a limited service to subscribers pending conclusion of the roaming agreements with the semi-government CyTA.
A CRUCIAL European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision in a property case brought against Turkey by a Famagusta refugee will be announced in around three months, it was reported yesterday.
THE testing of dietary supplements for illegal substances will begin for the first time in the marketplace by the end of this month, while legislation limiting their sale will come into force next summer, the Acting Head of the Health Services, Georgios Georgallas, said yesterday.
RULING DIKO said yesterday that the political messages left behind by the two-day religious festival in occupied Morphou did not serve the efforts to solve the Cyprus problem.
THERE was a carnival atmosphere in Morphou on Wednesday night as crowds of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots gathered in the town’s Inonu Square to celebrate International Peace Day.
CYPRUS had the highest migratory flow of all EU countries in 2003, five times its natural birth rate, according to figures released by Eurostat. The island also had the second lowest death rate per 1,000 people.
THE Cyprus government says it is seeking a compromise with the EU over proposals for financial aid and direct trade with the Turkish Cypriots, according to Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides.
Chrysostomides’ statement signals a climbdown from the government’s earlier outright rejection of EU proposals put forward earlier this summer.
IT’S about that time of year when the Paphos medieval harbour is transformed into a super theatre setting under the stars and the ice-cream licking tourists are replaced by high-heeled dresses, suits and ties and opera lovers.
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.
