Greek Press

ALITHIA: “Invite for AKEL-DISY cooperation”. DISY Parliamentary Representative Christos Pourgourides presented an open invitation to AKEL last Thursday requesting AKEL and DISY cooperate together in hopes of opening a path that will ultimately lead to the solution of the Cyprus problem.

MACHI: “Left at the mercy of God”. A total of 81 retired public servants from Pegeia are asking of the President to increase the monthly food pension. The retired folk have said that the government has left them to the mercy of God and always seem to be turning their backs to every demand.

POLITIS: “Names and evidence”. In what the paper describes as a shocking twist of events, the soon-to-be-retired and currently on holidays Deputy Chief of Police, Sotiris Charalambous and the president of the Boat-Buying Council company have switched sides and taken the Italians side. Because of this turn of events serious matters of ethics are arising concerning the actions of some state officials and state councils in buying these four boats.

SIMERINI: “Demographic nightmare in Cyprus”. Taking a somewhat sensationalist tone, the right-wing daily said mass riot that occurred last Wednesday by all illegal immigrants being held in the Central Prison in an effort to organise their escape brings forth a serious problem to the Cyprus society which could be solved by the change of the demographic character which the paper says has turned in to a cancerous tumor. Turkish residents are estimated to be 119,000 while industrial immigrants are estimated at 100,000.

PHILELEFTHEROS: “Public works in pursuit”. An official of the Work Inspection Department has suggested a penal prosecution against every manager at the Public Works Department for endangering the lives of workers from the Immigration Department and civilians from Nicosia after ignoring the legislation on not destroying metal which ended with the metal fibers into the air we breathe.

HARAVGHI: “First at giving”. The myths that DISY started, concerning social help and giving by the government of Change, fell down as fast as a paper building. DISY member Ionas Nicolaou’s claim that the government has received £500 million in oil taxes were proved wrong and his admission that the government was forced to give grants due to pressure by the opposition was a great shock.

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.