Oil price cut
CONSUMERS yesterday breathed a small sigh of relief as Petrolina announced fuel price cuts at the pump.
Effective today, petrol was set to be slashed by one cent per litre and diesel by 1.5 cents per litre.
Petrolina’s new prices are: 50.2 cents for unleaded 95 octane; 52.2 cents for unleaded 98 octane; and 50.4 cents for (reduced sulphur) diesel.
A TOTAL of four road accidents occurred on Monday, luckily with no deaths. Three out of four accidents occurred in Limassol while the other in Nicosia. Out of the total of the four, three accidents involved motorcycles.
ALITHIA: “Tassos Papadopoulos’ tower of Babel”. In an indirect reference to the Tzionis saga, the paper said the Papadopoulos government will soon fall into such a state of anarchy that it might as well be simply go by the name of Babel.
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The carnage on Cyprus’ roads continues unabated with the latest fatality on an infamous and notorious road at Tala, Paphos District. The media carried full reports of this horrific accident, in which an English lady, on the pavement, was killed instantly in front of her husband, by a car driver who lost control coming down Stephanie Avenue.
THE EXISTENCE of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ does not preclude a reunification of the island, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat told reporters on the eve of the breakaway state’s 22nd anniversary yesterday.
BULL-HEADED potato growers yesterday refused to budge from the Larnaca-Ayia Napa motorway they have been blockading for a week now.
The group had taken to the streets with their tractors in response to the government’s flat refusal to satisfy their demands for compensation for a poor trade year and incentives to leave the once-subsidised sector.
EMBATTLED MEP Marios Matsakis intends to personally hand his trophy from his recent escapade in no-man’s-land to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Matsakis made the headlines two weeks ago when he wandered into the buffer zone and snatched a Turkish flag from an unmanned outpost, earning both admiration and disapproval for his daredevil stunt.
HUNDREDS of Nicosia schoolchildren descended upon Eleftheria Square yesterday morning – with many more descending on the capital’s cafés – in a protest against the 22nd anniversary of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash’s declaration of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ and to purportedly demonstrate against the Turkish occupation.
A MIX-UP over voter registration deadlines caused a commotion last week when an Interior Ministry official told the Sunday Mail that non-Cypriot EU nationals only had until the end of this year to register for municipal elections, when in fact they have until October 2, 2006.
THERE WAS more fallout yesterday over the assertion by the Director of the President’s Diplomatic Office Tasos Tzionis that the Cyprus problem cannot be resolved on the basis of the Annan plan.
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.
