I AM a Turkish Cypriot. I spent 42 years of my life in the UK, Canada and US and came back in 1998 to spend my retiring years in my country of birth.
I have seen and observed what changes the world has gone through during the last for five decades.
BRITISH journalist Geoffrey Lean went out on a limb last week and submitted an excellent article to The Independent on Sunday (January 23) headed ‘Why do meddling Eurocrats want to ban your vitamin pills?
AGRICULTURE Minister Timis Efthymiou yesterday called farmers to a dialogue to discuss current problems in the sector and agricultural organisations` threat of dynamic measures.
AKEL yesterday blamed the opposition for the controversy surrounding Trade and Industry Minister George Lillikas’ alleged involvement in the awarding of a Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) advertising contract to a company associated with his wife’s company.
DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades will meet Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul during a visit to Ankara between February 9 and 13, the party announced yesterday.
THE Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) has handed over to police the case regarding the publication by hackers of broadband users’ usernames and passwords, the Cyprus Mail has learned.
It was reported yesterday that the usernames and passwords of around 8,500 broadband users had been posted on a website by hackers who managed to gain access to CyTA’s service i-choice.
KEBAB shops, for so long shown leniency from food hygiene laws, will finally have to clean up their acts, after it was announced that they would need to go through tougher procedures to get a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point certificate (HACCP) from January 1, 2006.
CYPRUS’ EU Health Commissioner Marcos Kyprianou said yesterday he had encouraged President Tassos Papadopoulos to quite smoking during discussions between the two men on EU issues affecting Cyprus.
Prior to his first official visit to the island, which began yesterday, Kyprianou had said he would press for stricter implementation of the national anti-smoking law.
DISY deputy Ionas Nicolaou told a news conference that among police officers promoted for their resistance to the 1974 coup, were 13 who had already been promoted for their role in the resistance.
Nicolaou urged the government to evaluate the authenticity of officers who fought against the coup.
THREE Turkish Cypriot leaders said yesterday they would express no objection to Turkey signing an EU customs union agreement with the Republic of Cyprus – as long as Turkey accompanied the agreement with a statement that customs union did not constitute full political recognition of the Republic.
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.
