WHEAT growers have decided to give talks with the Minister of Agriculture Timis Efthymiou and the House Agriculture Committee another try and will be pulling back their tractors from the roads and highways.
TRANSPORT Minister Haris Thrasou yesterday called on workers from the Cyprus Airways Duty Free Shops not to stage a 24-hours strike planned for today.
Cyprus may boast many things like great weather, a strong economy and low unemployment, but hits deep lows with civil service customer relations and service for foreign nationals.
If some believe that demanding pink slips from fellow citizens of Europe is bad enough, the assistance and quality of government sector services can be even more mind-boggling.
A TURKISH Cypriot court has ruled that Ufuk Degnekli, the 17-year-old held on suspicion of murdering British couple Lyn and Reece Mahony, should be held in custody for another eight days while enquiries continue.
The court also ordered he be submitted to psychological tests.
NICOSIA’S divided Ledra Street has been reunited… in cyberspace, with the launch yesterday of a website offering information and promotions from both north and south.
THE CYPRUS Development Bank (CDB) suffered losses of £20 million in 2003 as a result of bad management and dubious debtors, the House Watchdog Committee heard yesterday. Bank executives rewarded themselves with unacceptably large sums of money, charged Committee Chairman Christos Pourgourides.
THE Nicosia Assizes Court will decide tomorrow on the admissibility of the second suspect’s confession in the ongoing trial for the murder of contractor Pavlos Christodoulou, 38, who was bludgeoned to death and then burnt in the boot of his car on July 17, 2004.
FOREIGN nationals living and working legally in Cyprus are entitled to the same medical cover as locals, with the Health Ministry reassuring applicants they will not get lost in a bureaucratic maze.
GREEK Cypriot politicians were divided yesterday on the results of a meeting between party leaders from both sides, with some indicating there had been tensions during the discussions, particularly over property and settlers.
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.
