THE HOLY Synod will be looking into the issue of the Ayios Mamas liturgy, which the Bishop of Paphos yesterday described as damaging to the cause and making Turkey look good.
“We let Turkey show a phoney face to the outside, that it is a democratic country, that it lets us operate our churches, that we were welcome there,” Bishop Chrysostomos said yesterday.
TURKISH Cypriot ‘prime minister’ says he believes allowing a Greek Orthodox liturgy to take place at the Ayios Mammmas church in Morphou this week has done more for the Turkish Cypriot cause than any high-cost promotion campaign could even have done.
THREE Sri Lankans have complained to the Cyprus Mail after their boss in Nicosia fired them and then cut off the water supply to their accommodation.
“Even a dog on the street needs water,” one of the three said yesterday, adding that they were now forced to carry water from a nearby public tap.
“It’s backbreaking work.”
LIMASSOL Mayor Demetris Kontides opened the Office of European Affairs in Limassol yesterday, to help bring the city’s residents one step closer to the EU.
The office will operate as an information centre and point of contact between the municipality, media and city residents on EU-related issues and other topics concerning the municipality.
THE TWO trade unions representing staff at the Institute of Genetics and Neurology in Nicosia yesterday appealed to management to reconsider its position and show good will in a dispute over wage scales.
THE Central Bank yesterday kept interest rates unchanged at its monthly review, saying the economic climate did not warrant an adjustment.
The bank’s kept interest rates at 3.5 per cent for deposits and 5.5 per cent for advances.
“The bank is in waiting mode,” Central Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou told reporters.
DUE to the hostile stance of Britain towards Greek Cypriots, the government has asked for the withdrawal of part or of the entire British UNFICYP contingent if the UN decides to cut its troop levels in Cyprus, reports said yesterday.
TRADE and Industry Minister George Lillikas yesterday denied that there were “scandalous” incentives in the government’s proposal for the creation of golf courses, as claimed by reports in the media.
“The opinion of any journalist or analyst is respected, but the term ‘scandalous’ not only shows a lack of restraint, but has nothing to do with reality,” Lillikas said.
THE Supreme Court yesterday reserved judgement on an appeal filed by the Attorney-general over a district court decision not to sentence a Nicosia man who flew to Istanbul through the airport of Tymbou in the occupied areas.
The man pleaded guilty to two charges of exiting and entering the Republic through an illegal point of entry.
SIMERINI: “Anastassiades to seek new meeting with Talat”. DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades has said he would seek another meeting with Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Mehmet Ali Talat if the government did not receive an answer on reopening the Rizokarpasso gymnasium.
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.
