LONDON IS full of hidden secrets: bars, restaurants, pubs and clubs that you could easily walk straight past without even noticing there was anything there. The 100 Club in Oxford Street, is a perfect example of this, as I discovered last weekend…
“Laia, I am singing at the 100 on Saturday with Mike Sanchez, you must come!” says my sister Natalia.
EUROPEAN smokers could soon find they have nowhere left to smoke if the European Commission implements a total ban on smoking in public places across the 27-member bloc.
If the ban were to go ahead, Cypriot authorities would find they could no longer turn a blind eye to smokers who currently flout the island’s smoking laws.
FORMER Cyprus Airways (CY) staff have launched a lawsuit against the airline, claiming that they have not been paid the compensation promised to them when they were made redundant.
A lawsuit on behalf of the 83 former employees, all Nicosia residents, was submitted to the Supreme Court by the law offices of Alecos Markides and Drakos and Efthymiou.
THE government is to buy 250,000 special calculators that will help consumers in the transition to the euro.
Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said yesterday that banks would also be likely to hand out the special calculators, called euro converters, which give an instant conversion from the Cyprus pound to the euro.
BIRD flu inspections are to be stepped up in the Turkish Cypriot-controlled north after an outbreak of the H5N1 virus was reported in the southeastern Turkish province of Batman on Thursday.
“Now that the virus is present in Turkey, inspections here are being stepped up,” the head of the Turkish Cypriot Bird Flu Co-ordination Centre Dogan Sahali told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
CYTA faces financial ruin unless it undergoes a radical operations transformation, the main opposition party has warned.
DISY sounded the alarm bells during debate in Parliament this week on CyTA’s budget.
THE EDUCATION Ministry will write its own versions of all history textbooks after the row over the ‘inaccuracies’ of a specific book taught in primary schools escalated into a political debate.
According to the acting Education Minister, Interior Minister Neoclis Silikiotis, there is a need for an objective, scientific and complete modern history to be written in Cyprus.
POLICE have arrested a man on suspicion of pimping two Greek women at a flat in Nicosia.
Greek citizen Xenophontos Sergis is suspected of conspiracy to commit a crime, running a brothel, illegally earning from prostitution, pimping and sexual exploitation.
Sergis was arrested following a raid on an apartment reportedly being used as a brothel.
THE INTERIOR Minister said yesterday that the location of the new Larnaca-Famagusta waste disposal plant could not be changed.
He was speaking as a new demonstration by Lymbia residents passed off without any disturbance.
A MAN who arrived in Cyprus in 1984 aged just three, is facing deportation back to Lebanon.
According to Politis newspaper, the man, Simos Ioannou, was arrested earlier this week, after police determined he was not a Cypriot citizen like his parents and eight siblings, because, unlike his family, he wasn’t naturalised.
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.
