ALITHIA: “Justice in crisis”. Reporting on Attorney-general Solon Nikitas’ decision to resign following the acquittal by the Supreme Court of former health minister Dina Akkelidou, the daily commented that it was the apotheosis of political and legal ethics, a very rare phenomenon for Cyprus.
ONLY the unyielding persistence to the just cause would lead the country to its own resurrection, the Church said in its Easter message yesterday.
It urged everyone to rally round the political leadership and unite against the Turkish occupation of the island.
ONE THE most common political catchphrases that has surfaced in Cyprus even before EU accession last May, is the notion of a “European solution” to the Cyprus problem.
THE KITE and Extreme Sports Festival is set to take place on May 7 and 8 at Marine Beach next to the St Raphael Hotel in Limassol.
Bomb scare
NICOSIA north was in a brief panic on Thursday evening after witnesses reported a suspicious package outside a shop in the heart of Nicosia.
On arrival at the scene police, taking security precautions, cordoned off the area and bomb disposal experts examined the bag discovering that the contents were harmless.
Heroin arrest
THE TOTAL registrations of motor vehicles during the first quarter of 2005 increased by 6.2 per cent to 12,428 in the period from January-March. Registrations for the same period last year were 11,706.
AN INCIDENT a few weeks backs aptly illustrated the impact that our one-year-old membership of the European Union has had on society. An employee at the CyBC had poisoned a group of stray cats who were being looked after by a colleague. When the police were called, an officer apparently reprimanded the culprit, telling him: “We’re Europeans now; we can’t do this kind of thing.”
Looking back at our first year of being member of the world’s most exclusive club
ON THE first anniversary of Cyprus’ entry into the European Union, it is apt to ask how it has affected our lives.
THIS exhibition moves around Nicosia a lot, crossing the Green Line, so if you pay attention to where and when it takes place, you still have the chance to catch it for at least one more week, even though its shape is in the process of changing.
This nomadic tendency is reflected by the artists’ lifestyles, and it shows, although in a different way, in their art.
FOLLOWING the Cypriot tradition of overeating during Easter celebrations on Sunday and Monday at the end of over a month of fasting, doctors and dieticians have urged people to eat more sensibly.
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.
