FOLLOWING months of speculation, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos resigned yesterday to take up a senior position with Hellenic Bank, prompting questions from opposition DISY as to how a government minister could be allowed to negotiate for a position in the private sector while still in office.
Sir,
Thank you for printing MP Katie Clerides’ letter “Wear your helmet; it will save your life” (August 26).
Sir,
As a regular reader of the Cyprus Mail, I feel that the comment article by Bernard Wasserstein on August 17 (‘Can the wild men of the Middle East be tamed?’) in part presents a rather sanitised view of Israel’s responsibilities towards the non-Jewish Palestinians. I think that comment should contain a less sanitised view in order to add balance to the discussion.
HELIOS Airways said yesterday that its second Boeing 737-800 had been given the all-clear after an all-out check in Sweden and has been returned to service.
An announcement from the airline said its two Boeing 737-800s had now been checked, confirming that safety was the airline’s top priority.
CYPRUS Airways yesterday announced net losses of £20.4 million for the first half of 2005, mainly as a result of offloading its loss-making Greek-based carrier Hellas Jet.
GREEK and Turkish Cypriots spend similar amounts of money when crossing the divide, a study by the Cyprus College has shown.
The survey, carried out in association with the Central Bank, compared the current spending habits of the two communities to figures available for May 2003, right after the partial lifting of restrictions on the freedom of movement.
A TEAM of Greek experts investigating the Helios Airways crash in Greece, which killed all 121 on board, yesterday started interviewing people in Cyprus linked to the August 14 tragedy.
The head of the Greek air-accident investigation committee, Akrivos Tsolakis, and his team are based at the Golden Bay hotel in Larnaca, the place where the interviews are being conducted.
TURKISH Cypriot papers said yesterday the much-trumpeted direct flight to Baku in Azerbaijan was a hyped affair laid on by the Denktash family.
Daily Halkin Sesi said the first direct flight by Cyprus Turkish Airlines to a country other than Turkey had been a “a fiasco”.
THE Zodhia checkpoint, the first in the west of the island, would be operational as of today, it was confirmed yesterday after much speculation.
Earlier this month the government seemed caught off its stride by the breakaway regime’s announcement of the opening of the checkpoint today.
EU NATIONALS residing in Peyia are being told that they cannot vote in Sunday’s by-election to elect a new mayor because the legislation has not yet been amended by Parliament, even though EU law enshrines their right to vote.
The September 4 by-election is taking place because the former Peyia mayor, Demetris Kappetzis, resigned in late July due to ill health.
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.
