THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that a ‘compensation commission’ set up by the Turkish Cypriot regime cannot be an effective domestic remedy in addressing Greek Cypriot refugee claims, opening the doors to a flood of court cases against Turkey.
THE HEAD of the UK-based Lewis Trust Group (LTG) that has taken over a project to turn a 270-donum plot of Greek Cypriot-owned land in the Karpas peninsula into a high-class tourist resort says he did not know the land on which he will build was Greek Cypriot.
ATTORNEY-general Solon Nikitas yesterday hailed the ECHR decision as a joyous event that should make every citizen of the Republic feel happy.
DISAPPEARING computer files, hard disks and documents from Suphire’s offices yesterday rekindled the blame game between the police and the Electricity Authority (EAC), as each side claimed they had acted impeccably since the missing £9.2 million from the authority’s pension fund surfaced.
THE FOREIGN Ministry is not entirely satisfied with explanations given by Irish ambassador John Swift regarding a speech he gave in the north last week.
Swift was called to account on Tuesday after reports in the Turkish Cypriot press said he had described President Tassos Papadopoulos as an obstacle to a solution to the Cyprus problem.
WITH leaders in Cyprus all professing their commitment to reuniting the island, it would seem hardly any of them would be happy to unite the communities in their own homes, with their children marrying across the community divide.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw yesterday called for direct trade and flights to the north and urged EU approval of the financial aid package at the same time.
In a 12-page written response to the recent report on Cyprus by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Straw said combining the package was necessary to help end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots.
A CYPRIOT company looks to have got itself in the controversies that have recently arisen in Serbia.
A LARGE number of medicines provided by public health care have been acquired via suspect methods, and some may even be unsuitable or even hazardous to people’s health, the EDEK party charged yesterday.
JUSTICE Minister Doros Theodorou said yesterday the authorities had suspicions that fake marriages were being carried out at the Aradippou Municipality after it emerged that some people had been married there two or three times.
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.
