‘After 30 years it is finally starting to look like a road again’
HISTORY was being made yesterday in Nicosia as Turkish soldiers began tearing down an observation post and a roadblock facing the famous Ledra street checkpoint in Nicosia.
HEALTH MINISTER Andreas Gavrielides said yesterday he was “saddened” by the fact that the Makarios Child Oncology Centre (COC) has become the centre of the media’s attention.
The Commission for the Protection of Competition yesterday fined JCC Payment Systems £373,374.49 for various violations.
PAPHOS police were yesterday trying to identify the badly decomposed body of a man found seated in a chair in an abandoned shopping centre on Posidonos street in Kato Paphos. According to forensic officials, the man, believed to be in his forties, was discovered in a sitting position on a chair surrounded by bottles and cans of liquor.
FORMER Attorney General and head of the Supreme Court Michalakis Triantafyllides died yesterday morning aged 78.
Triantafyllides was born in Nicosia in 1927. After graduating from the Pancyprian Gymnasium, he studied Law at Gray`s Inn in London, and graduated in 1948.
Hundreds attend Ozker Ozgur’s funeral
HUNDREDS of mourners, including Greek Cypriot politicians, yesterday attended the funeral of veteran Turkish Cypriot politician Ozker Ozgur who died on Tuesday after a battle with cancer.
EU promotes multilingualism as a way of life
THE EUROPEAN Commission earlier this week called for action to promote multilingualism in the EU, under the motto: “the more languages you know, the more of a person you are.”
The Commission has called on Member States to play their part in furthering the teaching, learning and use of languages.
THE ENGLISH School in Nicosia has arranged an educational trip to northern Cyprus and pupils can, attend provided they have their parents’ consent.
The trip, planned for December 4, will be a journey into Mediaeval Cyprus. Pupils will get the chance to visit historical Cypriot monuments, such as Kyrenia castle.
VOLUNTEER week will give organisations and individuals the chance to make visible their contributions and is an opportunity to show that volunteerism can help people in need such as the elderly, disabled, people with illnesses, victims of violence and those experiencing other social problems.
IN THE latest development in the ongoing power struggle between the leaderless bishops, the Paphos Bishop yesterday accused the Kiti Bishop of failing to deliver to the Patriarch of Constantinople the wish of the Synod to hold next year’s Greater Synod in Cyprus.
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.
