THE TURKISH side said yesterday they might be willing to dismantle the controversial bridge it is building at Ledra Street if the two sides sit down with the UN to resolve the deadlock over the crossing.
“We are willing to take the first opportunity to sit down and discuss this with the Greek Cypriots and the UN, and if necessary we are willing to remove the bridge.
EMPLOYEES at Cyprus Airways (CY) were yesterday contemplating whether to accept a redundancy package or risk the company closing and receiving nothing.
CY management yesterday circulated to all staff its proposals to entice 500 people to leave the ailing carrier under a voluntary redundancy scheme.
WITH poor nutrition and insufficient exercise among the leading causes of avoidable death in Europe and around 14 million EU citizens currently overweight or obese, the European Union has been forced to take action.
Cyprus contributes to this figure with a quarter of its adult population registered as obese, with England and Germany not far behind.
AN independent team of professionals has been created to promote Research and Competitiveness in Cyprus through innovation and the protection of Intellectual Property. The move was announced yesterday at a news conference at the Hellenic Bank.
THE NEW Citizens’ Service Centre opens its doors today in Nicosia and is expected to save the public from hours of waiting and distress.
This will be the first organisation of its kind in Cyprus and the government hopes to expand the project to all Cypriot municipalities.
THE GOVERNMENT’S plan for a new recycling system, which has been in the works for the past three years, is in its final stages of completion.
At the same time, the Chamber of Commerce (KEVE) has set up its own initiative, Green Dot (Cyprus) Public Co. Ltd, which is also in the process of enforcing a similar system
RESTORATION works have just been completed at the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque outside Larnaca, the United Nations Development Programme announced yesterday.
The Tekke is one of Islam’s most important holy sites and has long been the destination for Muslim pilgrims from Cyprus and the Middle East.
TECHNICAL problems have caused a delay in the introduction of traffic cameras across the island.
AN ICE-FREE Arctic by the end of the century, irreparable damage to the planet’s climate systems within a decade, northern Europe facing Canadian-style winters as the Gulf Stream switches off, north America plagued by tropical diseases as the temperatures rise.
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.
