THE Government said yesterday it was losing patience with striking truck drivers, who are refusing to budge from their blockade of the island’s ports, now into its sixth day.
Private business associations estimate that if the strike continues into next week, it will cost the economy £10 million per day.
MAJOR AIRLINES yesterday said their flight schedules were running as normal despite Northern Europe being hit by severe storms.
THE TARGET of the government’s Road Safety Committee is to decrease the number of road deaths by 50 per cent by the year 2010, Justice Minister Sophocles Sophocleous said yesterday.
SIX small earthquakes were recorded off the coast of Paphos in a seven-hour period from Thursday night going into Friday morning.
Kyriacos Solomi, head of the Cyprus Seismology Department, yesterday told the Mail that the tremors were small and apart from one, were not felt by people.
PIRAEUS Bank’s top brass will be meeting with Central Bank governor and the Finance Minister early next week in Nicosia, it was reported yesterday.
Greece’s fourth largest lender, Piraeus holds a stake of just under 10 per cent in the Bank of Cyprus. But its recent cash-and-stock offer to take over the bank was rejected by BoC’s board.
TURKEY has no right to interfere in the signing of an agreement between Cyprus and Lebanon on exclusive economic zones, President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday.
Papadopoulos was responding to reports on the French news agency, AFP, saying Turkey had protested to Lebanon over Wednesday’s signing of the agreement, which will allow for offshore oil and gas exploration.
FUEL prices in Cyprus have decreased since the beginning of 2007, following the worldwide decrease in the price of crude oil.
THE Supreme Court has declared null and void the controversial awarding of a £1 million euro information contract to a joint venture.
The public tender was late last year awarded to Action PR & Publications Ltd and Epistle, who were to carry out the advertising end of the Finance Ministry’s information campaign on the euro.
A FILM producer has vented his anger against the Ministry of Education and Culture over what he says are efforts to censor his film.
The executive producer of Akamas, Panicos Chrysanthou, protested outside a function yesterday, which saw film directors and members of the Cyprus film industry gather to discuss the state of modern European cinema.
THE CHINESE authorities appear to be reconsidering the deal to sell 75 howitzers to Cyprus, after Turkish intervention on the matter, Politis newspaper 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.
