PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos has decided to send back to Parliament three laws, which granted generous pay and benefit increases for ministers and deputies.
The move had been expected after it transpired that the laws could be unconstitutional.
DISY and EDEK yesterday condemned an ultra-nationalist group believed to be behind the “barbaric” beating of a Turkish and a Greek Cypriot at a Nicosia caf? on Friday evening.
Police arrested a 28-year-old former police officer in connection with the incident. He was remanded in custody for four days on Saturday.
TURKEY’S signing of an EU customs union agreement with Cyprus, along with its caveat that signing did not constitute recognition of the Republic’s sovereignty over the whole of the island, has met with general approval by leaders in the north.
TURKEY’S declaration that it does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, made after signing the EU customs union protocol, has no legal validity, President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday.
A TURKISH declaration refusing to recognise Cyprus’ Nicosia government should not block the launch of European Union membership talks with Ankara, the European Commission said yesterday after an initial assessment.
Turkey issued the declaration last Friday when it signed a protocol extending its customs union with the EU to the bloc’s 10 newcomers, including Cyprus.
TWO men were yesterday let off with a warning, after police found a replica Kalashnikov assault rifle and several knives in their luggage.
Philaretos Polycarpou, inspector of Paphos Police, said a bus was taking 45 Irish tourists from Limassol to Paphos Airport yesterday afternoon, when one of the passengers noticed what they thought was a firearm in a man’s luggage.
THE BATTLE for control of the mobile phone market in Cyprus rages on, as telecom giant CyTA yesterday underlined its refusal to comply with an interim order to raise prices.
A 52-YEAR-old Greek man living in Cyprus was killed in a car accident on Sunday night, bringing the death toll on the island’s roads to 56 for the year.
AN INVESTIGATION into the death of two Indian students on a construction site last year has found that the accident that killed them was due to deliberate omission and not error.
THE findings of the investigation into the army training accident near Larnaca have not yet been handed over to the president, Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said yesterday.
A 19-year-old sergeant was critically injured when a disposable anti-tank weapon was fired during a training session last Thursday.
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.
