ALITHIA: “Fuelling the fire”. Focusing on the announcement that fuel prices are to increase, the daily raises the question of how the consumer’s pocket has been hit by the extra 26 cents per litre on fuel prices. The paper takes a swipe at the Minister of Commerce and Industry Giorgos Lillikas who has been attempting to calm worried consumers.
Further to the excellent article written by Dr Tim Potier in your paper of June 15, I find it remarkable that some of our politicians express such surprise at the recent referendum results. The concept of European Union is a very laudable goal and it is understandable how it came into being after the horrific wars of the 20th century that created such carnage for its people in two world wars.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos will begin a visit to London on July 26, following an invitation by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Papadopoulos said in Brussels where he is attending the EU summit that he would also visiting Paris on November 4 at the invitation of his French counterpart Jacques Chirac.
Thieves in action
TURKISH Cypriot police are searching for suspects in connection with three incidents of burglary that took place in the north over the past week. According to police reports, valuables were stolen from the Nicosia home of Huseyin Depreli, 300 New Turkish Lira were stolen from Vili Hairdressers in Nicosia and the home of Aziz Soyalan in Lapithos was also burgled.
A STRANGE thing is happening in Britain: the Labour Party, the party that abolished hanging, legalised homosexuality, ended theatre censorship, allowed abortion and liberalised divorce, is becoming a party obsessed with control, whose buzzword is ‘war’, war on terror, war on crime, war on drugs.
STAFF AT the airports’ duty-free shops returned to work yesterday after agreeing to suspend strike measures pending a new round of negotiations on July 4.
The decision to return to work after six consecutive days of industrial action was taken at a general assembly of the workers early yesterday.
EACH Cypriot eats around nine kilos of halloumi every year, which works out to approximately 36 small packets.
HUNDREDS OF Greek and Turkish Cypriots will be heading for Famagusta to celebrate the Kataklysmos, the Festival of the Flood tomorrow for the second time since checkpoints were opened in 2003.
A CYPRIOT website yesterday followed up on a report naming a UK-based company that was promising investors astronomical returns on the purchase of land near the site of a proposed new golf course in Larnaca.
Earlier in the week Stockwatch (www.stockwatch.com.cy) had run a story saying the company, Investors Provident, also dealt in real estate development in the occupied areas.
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.
