CYPRUS yesterday won an important battle in Brussels, managing to include for the first time two references in an EU document which can be used to pressure Turkey into recognising the Republic of Cyprus.
ALL demolition work at the Armenian Cemetery near the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia has been stopped after the Ministry of the Interior took out an injunction to stop the work.
The Armenian Prelature last week started digging up graves, as part of their plans to put remains together in a new communal pit in the new Armenian Cemetery in Deftera, on the outskirts of the capital.
THE distraught parents of a 15-year-old pupil who collapsed and died in a classroom in Paphos, have blamed teachers for his death, arguing that had they reacted promptly he would still be alive.
A HOTLY-debated canine law is set to be amended after parliament bowed to pressure from hunters.
House Agriculture Committee chairman Christos Mavrokordatos said the recently applied law would be amended to make it more functional.
CYPRUS is one step closer to protecting the origin of local delight, halloumi, after a decision was finally taken on the recipe of the white rubbery cheese.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) yesterday announced that its failed Athens-based subsidiary Hellas Jet would cease operations on May 10.
From its inception in June 2003 until now, Hellas Jet has cost the national carrier at least £50 million pounds in creation and closure expenses and monthly losses.
THE MOVEMENT for the European Future of Cyprus is calling on Cypriots to keep the fight alive against the reintroduction of the Annan plan.
HOW IRONIC that as we near our first birthday in the European Union, our public officials appear to outdo themselves in gratuitous chauvinism. Earlier this week, deputy chief of police Sotiris Charalambous made a point of underlining that 35 per cent of crime was committed by foreigners and that bogus asylum seekers were scamming their way to jobs and benefits in Cyprus.
FIFTEEN years after re-opening, the Pantheon cinema in Nicosia will be screening for the final time on Sunday.
Owner George Papageorgiou, said yesterday, “it’s sad as my family has been in the cinema business for a very long time. We are in fact closing 62 years, to the day, that my grandfather opened the Ireon Cinema in Famagusta.”
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.
