THIS year has been the second driest in 19 years, the Water Development Department (WDD) said yesterday, warning that if the island sees a second winter of drought next winter, households could see a return to dreaded water cuts.
Approaching mid-May, the WDD estimates there will be no further water flow into the island’s dams until the summer is over.
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Thirteen years ago, I would never have believed I would be back home from Cyprus so disillusioned with what I see happening to Paphos. My father and I purchased a property in Paphos in 1996 in a supposedly exclusive development. Our reasons for choosing Cyprus were numerous, but the biggest factors were the people, the culture and the near zero crime rate.
DRAMATIC EVENTS unfolded last night on the roof of a seven-storey building, opposite the Nicosia Municipality, as four Kurdish asylum seekers threatened to jump off if the government failed to meet their demands.
CYPRUS said yesterday it was pleased with the Council of Europe’s latest assessment on the island’s measures and systems for the combating of money laundering and terrorist financing.
CYPRUS IS in serious danger of becoming infested with monkeys, said the Cyprus Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (CSPCA) yesterday, as Cypriot owners, bored with their novelty pets, have taken to opening their front doors and letting their pets run wild.
A PALESTINIAN asylum seeker was jailed by the Nicosia court for five days yesterday after a week-long campaign of defacing UN property around town.
Judge Lemonia Kaoutzani said that just because the Palestinian man had problems in his own country did not mean he had the right to create a ruckus in Cyprus.
Paphos bishop heads for Istanbul with special instructions
WITH AN epistle in hand, Paphos bishop Chrysostomos has dashed to Istanbul for an urgent audience with the Ecumenical Patriarch in a last-ditch bid to prevent deadlock before a crucial gathering of clerics to determine the future of the Church of Cyprus.
DERMATOLOGISTS will examine patients free of charge next Monday for sun-related skin conditions on the occasion of European Melanoma day.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference this week, Dermatology Society president Dr Constantinos Demetriou said doctors would be examining patients for free by appointment only.
UNITED Democrats leader Michalis Papapetrou yesterday kept up the heat on President Papadopoulos for a controversial interview given last week to a French news magazine.
The lengthy interview covered aspects of the Cyprus problem, possible procedures for talks, and Turkey’s position toward the issue.
Family fear deportation after ‘failing Bible test’
A CHRISTIAN Iranian family has been refused political asylum in Cyprus because one of the family members claimed the Apostle Paul replaced Judas Iscariot as one of Jesus’ disciples, Politis reported yesterday.
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.
