BUSINESS leaders yesterday issued a dire warning, as the impact of the truckers’ strike began to be felt across the island’s economy.
The Employers’ and Industrialists Federation (OEV) said problems were beginning to emerge in the construction industry, which would come to a complete standstill in two to three days if the strike continued.
Paphos was indeed fortunate to be part of the Cyprus cultural scene this week at the Odeon Amphitheatre, firstly with Midas Touch’s presentation of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and then the opening of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama.
THE SEMI-government telecom giant, CyTA, has entered uncharted territory with its refusal to comply with an interim order to raise prices for mobile telephony, risking a potential £5,000 daily fine.
The country’s competition watchdog says the move is unprecedented, warning that CyTA’s decision-makers must be held to account for questioning the authority of a state institution.
TURKISH Cypriot farmers say they will consider using French methods to prevent what they term illegal imports of Greek Cypriot meat products into the north.
“You’ve seen what the French farmers do to protect their markets: They bring the country to a standstill. We’ll do the same if we have to,” Turkish Cypriot Farmers Union head Ali Kabakci told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
A PRIVATE Azeri airline said yesterday it would begin regular flights to Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, becoming the first non-Turkish carrier to fly direct to the internationally isolated enclave.
A 22-YEAR-old Pakistani asylum seeker was yesterday sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of a string of arsons in the old town of Nicosia last summer.
Ali Haq was detained in July 2004 after he was seen wandering suspiciously in the old town in the wake of two fires – one in a derelict house, the other in a bus – 200 metres from each other.
MORE and more Cypriots are travelling to Istanbul as part of their summer holidays, the president of the Association of Cypriot Travel Agents, Akis Kelepesiis, revealed yesterday.
THERE is likely to be an increase in monitoring of telephone calls and emails by the security services in the near future as part of a Europe-wide initiative in the wake of last week’s London bombs.
HARRY Potter is ready to cast a spell over the book industry this weekend, as the sixth volume in the boy wizard series looks set to become the world’s biggest-selling novel as soon as it goes on sale.
TWO Nicosia men were yesterday remanded in custody for two days in connection with the wrongful death of their 28-year-old friend.
The court heard that the incident happened at around 8.30pm on Wednesday, near a parking lot on Apollonos Street in the old town of Nicosia.
The first suspect, a bar owner on the same street, lit a fire in the parking lot to burn rubbish.
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.
