MEHMET Ali Talat yesterday took a less than diplomatic swipe at the Cypriot government and the EU – stopping short of accusing the EU of outright discrimination against Turkish Cypriots – insinuating he would not like to draw parallels with Nazis and Crusaders.
Dead Ethnarch’s organ has been in Archbishopric since 1977
THE NEW Archbishop has announced that he plans to bury the heart of Makarios III – which has been embalmed for the past 30 years in the Archbishopric – in a Nicosia cemetery.
The news has shocked Cypriots, as the vast majority had no idea that Makarios’ heart had not been buried with the rest of his body.
WALKING through the streets of the centre of Nicosia yesterday, one thing was guaranteed; you would be hard-pushed to find a seat in one of the many caf?s in the old town. On the 23rd anniversary of the declaration of the ‘TRNC’, the significance of this day looked the furthest thing from the minds of most children hanging out down town.
IT HAS BEEN two weeks since the introduction of the new law on car taxes and second hand car importers are still having huge problems getting their cars out of bonded storage. This frustrating situation has developed because of bad planning and mismanagement by the Ministry, according to a press release by the Motor Vehicles Importers Association.
A SLOVAKIAN man, charged with stealing a bottle of perfume, was yesterday told by a Nicosia judge to show some respect to Cyprus after he told the court that “Cyprus is nice for a holiday but not to work”.
Unemployed Martin Jurena, 30, had pleaded guilty stealing a bottle of perfume valued at £49 on Tuesday because he was unable to find a job.
THE CHAIRWOMAN of the House Gender Equality Committee yesterday called on the Labour Ministry to set out a clear policy to combat sexual discrimination in the Cyprus workforce, centring on specific campaigns and public education.
THE ROW over the government’s refusal to reduce heating fuel duty took on new dimensions yesterday after coalition party AKEL accused Finance Minister Michalis Sarris’ of taking a neo-liberal approach to the island’s economy.
A LOAD of nonsense – that is what the police yesterday called press reports about an alleged orgy inside a Larnaca Fire Department station.
On Monday, daily Machi had run a story claiming that a group of firemen on night shift had turned their station into a “cabaret,” replete with sleazy artistes and booze.
THERE WAS drama in a Nicosia court room yesterday after a woman fainted upon hearing a judge sentence her to two months imprisonment.
What the mother of four didn’t know, was that the judge was planning to suspend her sentence to 12 months.
CYPRUS ITV, a 24-hour station broadcasting over the internet and available across the globe, has been upgraded and enriched after its launch back in March.
CITV is offering new packages for an effective presentation and advertisement of the island’s services and products, along with services for the upgrading of web pages with the hosting of films, all without downloading.
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.
