ARSONISTS have been blamed for several fires that broke out at the same time yesterday afternoon in various parts of an empty Paphos hotel.
The Paphos Fire Department received a call yesterday afternoon that smoke was billowing out of the Paphiana Hotel, a two-storey hotel in Yeroskipou that has been out of operation for two years.
THE contention that the Cyprus Problem cannot be resolved on the basis of the Annan Plan is the “personal” opinion of the Director of the President’s Diplomatic Office, whose comments invoked a flurry of government reactions, as well as speculation as to whether the opinion is more political in nature than personal.
THE feud between the bishops appears to drag on as a Synod meeting was convened yesterday evening without two of the Bishops, who were at the time flying into Larnaca after a visit with the Patriarch.
THE Green Party on Sunday held their annual congress, where their policies for next year’s general election were discussed.
At the congress, Party leader George Perdikis criticised the government, saying, “the Green Party has stood by President Papadopoulos and by the government in their vision for political and social change.
THE Director-General of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London was yesterday in Nicosia for a 24-hour visit with the aim of, “increasing mutual understanding and to explore the possibility of future opportunities and co-operation between Cyprus and Hong Kong.”
AKEL yesterday announced they would be increasing their Central Committee by five persons.
The party’s plenum met yesterday in preparation of its upcoming 20th conference, which will be taking place from November 24-27.
Party spokesman Andros Kyprianou said yesterday the party’s aim was to respond to its practical duties.
LAIKI eBank yesterday announced its new method of day-to-day banking via mobile phone text messaging (SMS).
The new Laiki SMS Banking service offers its customers the opportunity to get information and perform financial transactions through text messages, quickly, easily and securely.
POTATO growers are threatening to spread their action, blockading Paphos airport and moving on the capital, in support of farmers from the ‘red earth’ villages of the Famagusta district blocking the Larnaca-Ayia Napa motorway for the past week.
THE Education Ministry has requested that each school submit its official uniform code as soon as possible, in order to avoid further complications on the matter.
The call came after a meeting on Saturday with pupils’, teachers’ and parents’ unions,
TASOS TZIONIS, the head of the President’s diplomatic office and his closest associate, was refreshingly honest in an interview published in Sunday’s Phileleftheros about the Annan plan and the possible resumption of the talks. We have not been accustomed to such candour from this government, which, from the President down, has never spoken openly about the type of settlement it would pursue.
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.
