Extra set of eyes destined for cities’ traffic lights
SECRET cameras are set to be fitted to traffic lights in various locations around Cyprus in a move the Traffic Department hopes will reduce road accidents considerably.
The aim of these electronic eyes is to capture motorists who are speeding and who disobey the traffic signals.
COMMERCE Minister George Lillikas has said that he will not hesitate to issue a decree in which he will demand lower oil prices, if the Advisory Committee comes up with evidence that does not justify the current prices set by companies.
Lillikas added that if prices are unjustifiably high, in accord of the law, he has the right to intervene.
Larnaca to host island’s first synagogue in decades
CYPRUS’ GROWING Jewish community will on Monday inaugurate the first synagogue on the island for decades, marking a milestone in the history of Jewry in Cyprus. The synagogue is being opened in Larnaca.
CYPRUS’ jobless rose to 3.6 per cent of the population in August compared to 3.4 per cent in July with new graduates entering the labour market, the statistics department said.
Numerically the number of unemployed applying for benefit stood at 12,622 people, it said.
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Foreign Minister has doubts on counter-declaration
FOREIGN MINISTER George Iacovou said yesterday he doubted that the EU would be able to agree on a contentious counter-declaration to Ankara’s non-recognition of Cyprus before the start of Turkey’s accession negotiations on October 3.
TURKEY IS ready for European Union accession talks next month and is determined to make them a success, a key minister said yesterday, shrugging off last-minute wrangling inside the bloc over Ankara’s bid.
Latest EU poll finds only a quarter have faith in UN
CYPRIOTS consider crime and increasing prices to be of greater concern to them than the national economy and unemployment, according to the latest results of an EU public opinion poll released yesterday.
A 74-YEAR-OLD man from Paralimni was killed in a road accident yesterday morning in the Famagusta district. Police said that around 9.45am while Antonis Hadjisolomou was driving on the road from Paralimni to Dherynia his car collided with another vehicle driven by a 41-year-old man, which resulted in a collision with a third car belonging to a foreign family with two children.
POLITIS: “Bell sounds for school canteens”. Parents’ Unions, nutritionists, dieticians and pediatricians are warning that what school children are eating from school canteens is not safe, with ingredients that are not approved by the school canteen catalogues are being used.
FOR the second year running, Bishop Neophytos of Morphou last week led the faithful in vespers and liturgy to mark the feast day of Saint Mamas at his church in occupied Morphou.
Again he came under attack for doing so, his critics arguing that he gives legitimacy to the regime in the north by leading services in a part of his diocese that remains under occupation.
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.
