ANYONE who thinks they pay too much tax in Cyprus should be grateful they don’t live in Slovenia, France, Belgium or China, according to the latest edition of the Forbes Tax Misery Index.
A COMMITTEE aimed at reviewing security before major sports games is to be set up before the start of the next season in Cyprus.
Officials of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA), Cyprus Sports Organisation (CSO) and the police met at the Justice Ministry on Thursday for a meeting with Justice Minister Sophocles Sophocleous.
OPPOSITION leader Nicos Anastassiades yesterday reiterated his offer for dialogue with all parties, including archrivals AKEL, in the run-up to February’s presidential elections.
“We are extending an arm of co-operation to all political forces… provided there is a convergence on the major and substantive issues of concern to Greek Cypriots,” said the DISY boss.
DISY yesterday called on the European Union and the international community to recognise the Pontian Greek Genocide of 1916-1923.
“Historic events such as these must always remain in our memory,” read a statement released by the party.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat has hit back at comments by German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the cultural heritage in the north is being destroyed.
FARMERS from mountain communities in the Paphos and Limassol districts were counting their losses yesterday, 24 hours after freak torrential rains and hailstorms wiped out their crops.
Agriculture Minister Fotis Fotiou pledged immediate aid to the ravaged areas, and said authorities would be mobilised to repair damage to infrastructure.
CYPRUS’ admission to the euro zone next year will entrench the economic disparities on the island and further complicate a peace deal, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said yesterday.
The European Commission and the European Central Bank on Wednesday recommended that Cyprus adopt the euro next year along with Malta.
CYPRUS maintained a 75 basis point interest rate spread over ECB rates during a review yesterday, saying it had enough time to eliminate the margin before euro adoption and expressing concern at rampant credit growth.
ONE in four Cypriots suffers from high blood pressure, with at least a third of all sufferers unaware they have the life threatening condition.
POLICE finally contacted a 36-year-old Filipino woman for her formal statement OVER claims that she was sexually assaulted by her Nicosia employer after being kept a virtual prisoner for four months.
Just over 24 hours after first giving police her statement, she was alerted to report to the station.
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.
