WITH the fate of the mammoth deal between CyTA and LTV hanging in the balance, the dispute yesterday veered even more towards politicking, threatening to cloud the real issues at stake – competition in the telecom industry.
FOREIGN Minister George Iacovou yesterday called on the Turkish side to rise to the occasion and co-operate with UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan on Cyprus.
A DISTRICT court in the occupied areas yesterday decided to drop charges against MEP Marios Matsakis, who was accused of stealing a Turkish flag from a disused Turkish guard post in Louroujina.
A THIEF yesterday escaped with a two-year suspended sentence, after a Nicosia Court agreed to give him a second chance to battle his drug addiction.
A NORTH Cyprus tourism company this week succeeded in persuading UK travel giant Thomson to put its brochures back on shelves, just a week after pressure from the Cyprus Tourist Organisation (CTO) apparently forced Thomson to take them down.
PRIVATE dentists are facing such difficulties due to the shortage of dental anaesthetics in the private sector some have turned to the occupied areas to stock up on supplies. Others depend on trips abroad.
And worryingly there is a total lack of dental anaesthetic drugs for heart sufferers.
ANOTHER death due to a suspected drug overdose has once more highlighted the increasing problem of narcotics in Cyprus.
Twenty-four year old Christophoros Georgiou (aka Assos) from Yeroskipou was found unconscious on his bed by his father just before 10pm yesterday. An ambulance took Georgiou to a Paphos Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
PROPERTY investment in Cyprus is becoming increasingly appealing to investors worldwide, with economic conditions now improving at an impressive rate and the prospective adoption of the euro drawing huge interest from foreign investors.
Cyprus adopts the euro in January 2008.
A MOTORIST was jailed for three months yesterday for twice being caught at the wheel after he had been banned following a drink-driving offence.
A PRIEST has been suspended from his ecclesiastical duties after several women levied charges against him for ‘behaving outside of his duties’, according to yesterday’s Phileleftheros.
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.
