Talat objects to ‘piecemeal’ solution
THE government yesterday confirmed it had submitted a detailed proposal to the European Commission concerning the opening of the port in occupied Famagusta in return for the closed city of Varosha.
PRESIDENTIAL Spokesman Marios Karoyian yesterday denied the government had information on Chechen terrorist camps in the north, directly contradicting statements made at the weekend by Justice Minister Doros Theodorou.
THE Cyprus problem should not stand in the way of a date for Turkey’s EU accession talks, EU Enlargement Commissioner Gunter Verheugen said in Ankara yesterday.
THE north’s newly appointed economy and tourism ‘minister’ Dervish Deniz has launched a scathing attack on the breakaway state’s embattled national airline accusing mainland Turkish shareholders in the company of running the airline into the ground.
THE REMAINS of half an unidentified human body have been found floating in the sea in the Paphos district, police said yesterday.
THE Jerusalem Patriarchate has denied reports it was planning to sell property in the occupied north, Paphos Bishop Chrysostomos said yesterday.
The reports, published in Politis on Sunday, said that the Jerusalem Patriarchate was engaged in negotiations to sell its land in occupied Kyrenia and Mia Milia.
GRAFT and nepotism are the order of the day in the police force, a DISY deputy charged yesterday, citing examples of gross irregularities in promotion procedures.
Ionas Nicolaou, who is also DISY’s commissioner for Justice and Public Order affairs, called a news conference to unveil what he claims is the extent of favouritism in the police force.
THE NUMBER of fatalities yesterday rose to 72 after four more people lost their lives on the roads this weekend. The total is six higher than on the same date last year, police said.
The first accident took place in the Famagusta district at 9pm on Saturday.
POLICE arrested a 40-year-old cabaret owner and his 35-year-old employee in Limassol in connection with charges of pimping and profiting from prostitution after a report by a disgruntled punter.
CYPRUS could well be on its way to building the first Technology Park on the island by next year, Commerce Minister George Lillikas said yesterday.
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.
