SUNDAY should have been a landmark day in Cyprus: the first local election in which non-Cypriot EU nationals were allowed to vote. It is a by-election caused by the retirement of the mayor for reasons of ill health.
POLITIS: “Slap in the face”. The daily revealed the report made by EU aviation safety experts that recently visited the island to inspect the Civil Aviation Authority. The report shows that recent comments by Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou, in which the former employee slammed the Civil Aviation for improper checks of aircrafts, were justified.
THE POLICE should crack down on the illegal practice of offering caged birds as prizes in street side games of chance known as ‘kazantis’, according to a recent announcement by the Green Party.
FOR THE past three years, nine communities living in the rural outskirts of Paphos have been fighting for a daily bus service to link them to the main city, but their demands have so far been ignored by the state, which claims that there is not enough demand to merit a bus per day.
AROUND 15 pupils yesterday demonstrated outside the Dhekelia police station after the primary school inside the British base closed down.
The school was used for the children of the 91 asylum seekers who washed up on the sovereign base of Dhekelia in 1999. The refugees have since been granted asylum and have been staying in Dhekelia ever since.
THE EU said yesterday agreed to issue a counter declaration to Ankara’s refusal to recognise Cyprus but Nicosia blasted the draft proposed by Britain, threatening to block Turkey’s accession talks unless it was changed.
Government spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said the first-draft proposal by Britain, the current EU president was “unacceptable and unbalanced”.
LIFE insurance companies on the island will be paying around £4 million for all the relatives of the victims of Helios Airways flight ZU522, which crashed in Greece on August 14, killing all 121 passengers and crew members on board.
NO DEAL was cut between outgoing Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and the Church over the latter’s millions of pounds in taxes owed to the government, Bishop Chrysostomos of Paphos said yesterday.
He was commenting on allegations that Keravnos landed a high-paying job with Hellenic Bank as a trade-off for letting the Church off the hook for some £37 in unpaid taxes.
THREE YOUTHS were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of a series of recent burglaries in Nicosia. The arrests came on the tail of an eyewitness account of a robbery that occurred on the same day.
A Nicosia house broken into and the thieves stole various jewellery items worth around £5,420. Cash totaling £500 was also stolen from the house.
CYPRUS is being forced to export cattle to Lebanon to avoid breaching new EU milk quotas.
Cyprus has been given a quota of 141 million litres of milk a year, with significant sanctions should the figure be exceeded. As are result, some 400 cattle were exported to Lebanon last Friday for slaughter and more animals are to follow in the near future.
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.
