Sir,
This is an open letter to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, Ministry of Justice and Social order, Ministry of Health, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Chief of Police and Director of the Department of Transport.
I am writing this letter to the newspaper rather than directly, as there is a much higher probability of it being read!
Government says ‘not interested in selling now’
TWO COMPANIES with American and Greek interests have expressed an interest in acquiring a 51 per cent stake in Cyprus Airways (CY), the airline announced to the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) yesterday.
JACK Straw went to great lengths during his visit to emphasis the friendly links between Cyprus and Britain, well aware that he had offended the government by ignoring its demand that he not see Mehmet Ali Talat at the ‘presidential’ palace in the north.
A FOREIGN national trying to renew a work visa at the Department of Immigration was told to ‘go back to his country’ this week, in just one of many incidents listed by an anti-racism action group yesterday.
THE ARCHBISHOP of America, Demetrios, yesterday met with the Holy Synod, where it was said they discussed “the facts, problems and perspectives of the Orthodox Church today”.
Demetrios, who arrived on the island on Tuesday, also met with President Papadopoulos and the acting Synod president, Bishop Chrysostomos of Paphos.
Nicosia General sees through mercifully quiet first 24 hours
AN EERIE calm settled over the casualty ward at Nicosia’s General Hospital yesterday. Just as well, since any serious injury would have been referred elsewhere because of the government doctors’ ongoing strike.
A BRITISH woman who defied a court order and fled the UK while embroiled in custody proceedings was arrested on Monday and remanded in custody for kidnapping a minor. The minor is question was her eight-year old daughter, over whom it appears the woman was trying to retain custody.
A LARGE number of Maronite properties in occupied Ayia Marina of Skilloura have been illegally transferred to Turkish Cypriots, with Maronite representative to the House Antonis Hadjiroussos saying he will go as far as the Vatican to find justice.
COUNCIL OF Europe Rapporteur for Cyprus, M?ty?s E?rsi, submitted his resignation on Tuesday, saying he no longer enjoyed the trust of the Greek Cypriot side.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw appeared unfazed yesterday by a series of demonstrations that greeted the beginning of his contacts in Cyprus, as students and others turned out to protest his meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.
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.
