AN AD-HOC meeting chaired by President Tassos Papadopoulos on the disturbing rise in road deaths this year concluded with a pledge of immediate action to curb the increasing number of road accidents, including measures to impose higher traffic violation penalties, install speed cameras and instil road safety awareness from a young age.
THE leader of the Turkish Cypriot Communal Liberation Party (TKP) said yesterday he considered AKEL as the most important party in the struggle to find a solution to the Cyprus problem.
GREEK Cypriot MEP Yiannakis Cassoulides yesterday blamed Britain for the lack of consensus in the EU on aid and trade to the Turkish Cypriots due to its insistence that both measures be decided at the same time.
In a written statement from Brussels, Cassoulides said Britain was being “completely inflexible” as discussions on the issue continued yesterday.
A SCOTTISH schoolboy held in prison after being charged with the rape of a teenage girl in Protaras was yesterday in good psychological condition, prison officials confirmed.
CYPRUS has yet to set a date for entering ERM-2, the ante room for joining the euro, but envisages adopting the common currency by 2008, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said yesterday.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) unions have been given a list of 135 employees facing the axe due to the downsizing of the airline’s fleet from November 1.
DOWNTOWN Nicosia will come to a standstill on Saturday with the peak day of the European Pedestrian Week programme, which will take place in Cyprus from today up to September 22.
THE CYPRUS Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and Areeba have let their intentions known as they prepare to release subsidised mobile phone promotions and monthly fixed packages in the upcoming market battle.
SIMERINI: “Grape growers threaten to take action again”. Grape growers’ mounting dissatisfaction over a recent government proposal to ensure that wineries accept 50,000 tonnes of grapes is on the point of exploding. The growers met at Stroumbi in the Paphos district and accused the government and other farming organisations of serving the interests of the wineries and not their own.
WHEN DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades crossed the Green Line for talks with Mehmet Ali Talat, he was pilloried for conducting parallel negotiations with the Turkish Cypriot side, for bypassing the President and the National Council, for insulting the democratically expressed verdict of the Greek Cypriot people, who had issued a resounding ‘no’ to the Annan plan at referendum in April.
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.
