IN THE aftermath of the Arif Mustafa case, the government yesterday rushed to reassure Greek Cypriot refugees that no precedent had been set and that they would not be left out in the cold.
ARIF Mustafa yesterday did something that he has not done in over three decades: he opened the front door to his house.
In a landmark court decision on Monday, Turkish Cypriot Mustafa won the right to move into his old home after the government withdrew its appeal against a September 2004 Supreme Court ruling that gave him the right to return.
TELEPHONE conversations are not being tapped in Cyprus, Justice Minister Doros Theodorou said yesterday – at least not by the official authorities of the State.
Opposition DISY is sceptical of the government’s reassurances.
A MAN involved in an armed robbery in Mitsero was yesterday jailed for nine years after being found guilty by the Nicosia Assizes.
THE FINANCE Ministry yesterday confirmed it had no intention of trying to convince secondary school teachers to go back and accept a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 63 after they rejected it earlier this month.
THE GOVERNMENT said yesterday it would be making a demarche to the US State Department over classified documents apparently advising American officials that they could visit the island via the illegal airports in the north.
LTV has reached a deal with the board of CyTA to manage the miVision platform from 2006 at a minimum fee of £2.5 million per year.
The co-operation agreement provides that LTV and Alfa will remain on Multichoice’s platform until 2010, while at the same time LTV and Alfa will supply miVision with entertainment content (movies, football, games etc.)
A PROPOSAL by the Education Ministry to cut down on religious instruction in schools has met by a storm of controversy from the Church and religious organisations.
The proposal, which the Ministry says is still at its very early stages, was condemned by the Association of Theologians and the Association of Religious Instruction Teachers.
CYPRUS is one of several EU countries that have asked for changes to the Bolkestein directive that governs the deregulation of services in the internal market, the government said yesterday.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday condemned the vandals who slashed car tyres outside a bicommunal literary event at Nicosia’s Famagusta Gate on Monday night.
The incident, the second of its kind in the past month, saw four cars have their tyres slashed, two belonging to two Turkish Cypriots, one to a Greek Cypriot and the fourth to the Bulgarian Embassy.
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.
