IN AN ARTICLE published in yesterday’s issue of the paper, an American mediation expert who has been working on various dispute resolution projects in Cyprus expressed his surprise at how little arbitration goes on here. Cypriots rarely settled their disputes through mediation or arbitration, said Edward J.
ALITHIA: “EAC codes in stock market changed” The opposition daily yesterday reported on the ongoing Suphire affair, saying that someone had changed the electricity authority’s access codes in the stock market webpage. The move blocked access to the authority’s portfolio and the pension fund management committee had no way of checking what was going on.
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It may be true as you report that tourism is being affected by Britons buying holiday homes and letting/lending out to family and friends (‘Second home dent to tourism market’, March 24). But surely the main problem is that Cyprus is becoming a very expensive place to have a holiday, compared to other destinations such as the Greek islands, Egypt, Croatia, Bulgaria etc.
THE office of the telecommunications regulator yesterday hit back at Areeba, saying “they wanted to get more market share by having us set artificially high prices for CyTA”.
Areeba had accused the regulator, Vassos Pyrgos, of not safeguarding the free market and allowing former monopoly CyTA to stifle the competition.
LAW Commissioner and President of Ethnopad, the National Organisation for the Protection of Human Rights, Leda Koursoumba said yesterday she was looking into why a Kurdish family of asylum seekers had been arrested.
AS MANY as 900 Gymnasium students lack basic literacy skills and are at the education level of primary school second graders.
According to reports in yesterday’s Phileleftheros newspaper, hundreds of pupils do not have satisfactory skills in reading, writing and arithmetic.
A WOMAN police officer who questioned the wife of a murdered man yesterday told the Nicosia Assizes Court that the suspect’s demeanour showed that she knew her husband was dead even before it was official.
TWO lawyers, one Greek Cypriot and one Turkish Cypriot, clashed at the Nicosia district court yesterday over whether a judgment ordering a British couple living in a Greek Cypriot property in Lapithos to demolish their home should be set aside.
SOME residents of Polemidhia near Limassol are objecting to the creation of a centre for people with special needs in their area, it emerged yesterday.
The issue came to light after the publication of a report by the Ombudswoman’s office, chastising the Welfare Department for failing to discuss the move with local residents.
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.
