IT COULD be an opportunity to show how relations between Turkey and Cyprus have improved or it could prove to be a national catastrophe. And no, we are not talking about politicians sitting around a table, but about 22,000 fans filling up a stadium to watch a football match.
THE END to the truck drivers’ has breathed a new lease of life into the construction industry, but it will take a while for matters to return to normal, the Building Contractors’ Association chairman Dimitris Sampson said yesterday.
Meanwhile at Limassol, port authorities were working round the clock to clear the thousands of containers that had accumulated over the past week.
NEARLY a quarter of all drivers on the island have penalty points on their licences. According to official police statistics, this amounts to 118,000 out of 420,000 drivers.
IN THEIR haste to approve generous pay and benefits increases for themselves, it seems that deputies and the government shot themselves in the foot, as it emerged yesterday that the law could be unconstitutional.
POLICE yesterday warned the public to ignore letters claiming they had won in foreign lotteries or that they had inherited large fortunes.
There has been a spate of reports of letters being sent to Cypriots claiming they had won the lotteries of other countries or that a relative had died and left them a huge fortune, police said in a written statement.
AS EVERY year, we have spent the past week listening to the hackneyed messages about the “black anniversaries” of the “twin crimes” of July 1974. We’ve had the obligatory sirens at 5.30am, the memorial services, the messages from party leaders and organisations, as well as endless panel discussions and documentaries.
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.
