EIGHTY per cent of Cypriots who had booked holidays to Egypt, have cancelled since the weekend’s terrorist attacks.
That was the verdict of Dinos Kakkouras, executive director of tour operator, Top Kinisis in Nicosia, who said that “people planning on holidaying in Egypt now want to holiday in Cyprus instead, but accommodating all this extra demand may prove difficult.
Sir,
Once again, the Cyprus Mail’s lack of objectivity was highlighted last week (Cyprus Mail, July 22, “Abuse of history just deepens the divide”).
Sir,
I have to agree with Pete Cross of Portsmouth, it all appears very gloomy in Cyprus at the moment.
I bought an apartment from plan two years ago and will be taking possession at the end of this year. I am now wondering what has caused such a change and will it be the ideal retirement I was looking forward to!
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos and British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday met in Downing Street amid rumors that Turkey would be signing its customs union protocol with the EU any day.
THE BANK of Cyprus (BoC) has found itself in hot water with the Central Bank over the writing off of bad debts to the tune of £148 million, as the supervisory body considered the figure a little too generous.
A NEW blow to the tourism industry looms, with hundreds of bus drivers threatening strike action if the government does not meet demands relating to their profession.
The group were initially poised to go on a warning strike this Thursday, but yesterday decided to suspend any action until next week in the hopes that negotiations with the government pay off.
THE image of the police took a battering yesterday after Politis published pictures of policemen posing with two women waving handcuffs, guns and mace spray.
THE total registrations of motor vehicles during the first six months of 2005 decreased by five per cent to 25,486, compared to the same period in 2004.
THE Chairman of the European Democrats and deputy for Nicosia Prodromos Prodromou has reported the loss of his dog, a Jack Russell named Milo. Prodromou’s pet was named by his son, after the heroic hound that appeared in the film The Mask, starring Jim Carey and Cameron Diaz.
According to Prodromou, Milo went missing last Thursday and has not yet been found.
SENTENCING of the 33-year-old wife of a murdered contractor was yesterday postponed for Thursday at the request of the defence, which said it was not ready to argue for mitigation.
Magda Eleftheriou was found guilty of manslaughter on Friday in connection with the murder of her husband Pavlos Christodoulou, 38, in July last year.
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.
