QUESTIONS are increasingly being raised regarding a sponsorship deal for German football club FC Cologne and a “phantom” Cypriot company.
Last week, reports said a sponsorship deal had been struck up between FC Cologne and a company named Satena, which would see the team have the word ‘Cyprus’ emblazoned on their jerseys.
CANCER support groups are launching a campaign to increase awareness of breast cancer with an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest bra chain ever.
The Cancer Patients Support Group (CPSG) calls on all women (or men) to hand over as many unwanted bras as they can and help put Cyprus on the map as the land of the world’s longest bra chain.
THE GOVERNMENT said yesterday it could not see any rationale in comments by former US Cyprus envoy Thomas Weston on the planned visit by three American congressmen to the north next week.
Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said that any visit by foreign officials to the north was a violation of UN Security Council Resolutions.
THE ELECTRICITY Authority (EAC) has decided against signing a memorandum of understanding with an institute operated by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), at least for the time being, although a spokesman insisted yesterday this did not mean the organisation was backing out of the idea.
THE European Democrats have merged with New Horizons to form a new party hoping to be a force to be reckoned with in the political spectrum ahead of the 2006 parliamentary elections.
POLICE officials from all over Europe gathered in Nicosia yesterday to attend the 34th European Regional Conference of Interpol. With Turkish police officials missing from the conference, much was said about Turkey’s absence and the cold relations between the police authorities of Nicosia and Ankara.
DERMATOLOGISTS are offering patients a free check-up next Monday to mark European Melanoma Day.
REPORTS that coach drivers are working up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week are extremely disturbing for a country that relies so heavily on the tourist industry.
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.
