IT’S NOVEMBER 2004 and around 100 households have yet to receive the ‘winter fuel’ benefit promised by the government to help cover last year’s heating fuel costs. The Finance Ministry says the applications are on hold and a decision will be taken in the coming weeks.
A DOGFIGHT broke out in the House Agriculture Committee yesterday during discussion of a proposal tabled by DISY deputy Soteris Sampson to scrap the canine law passed a few months ago.
THE OWNER of a British donkey sanctuary which took in two Cypriot foals says he plans to use the story of their rescue to show farmers on the island how the animals should be treated.
John Stirling, owner of the Freshfields Donkey Village in Derbyshire, intends to make a film about the two animals over the next year.
TURKISH Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Ankara does not intend to recognise the Republic of Cyprus only 24 hours after a top EU enlargement official said it must if it wished to join the bloc.
CYPRUS has been ranked 23rd in a list of the most desirable places in the world to live in 2005.
Ireland is easily the best country to live on the planet, and Zimbabwe the worst, according to the list, published in The Economist.
THE REMOVAL of the first landmines from the buffer zone dividing Cyprus took place yesterday as part of a year-long plan to clear thousands of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines laid by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in 1974.
A 49-YEAR-old Nicosia man was yesterday remanded in custody for four days in connection with possession and trafficking of controlled substances used for doping racehorses.
A second man from Larnaca was also arrested in connection with the case.
AROUND $31million have been lost due to the government’s introduction of draconian new procedures for the granting of student visas to foreigners, the Association of Private Tertiary Education Institutions (PASISTE) said yesterday.
College owners yesterday renewed their call to the government to ease student visa procedures, which they said had cut enrollment by up to 87 per cent.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos has asked for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s support in the difficult days that lie ahead for Cyprus, as Turkey’s EU aspirations are decided on.
SIMERINI: “Getting ready for battle”. The Bishops have already started planning for their Archbishop election campaigns. Paphos Bishop Chrysostomos has said he will campaign in Nicosia, while Kykkos Bishop Neophytos has been prepared for some time.
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.
