A DEMONSTRATION planned by British property buyers in the north was called off yesterday after the Turkish Cypriot leadership promised to hold an emergency meeting today about their problems.
BOTH EXAMINING lawyer and witness lost their cool in a Nicosia court yesterday, after it was alleged that a former associate of President Tassos Papadopoulos rubbed shoulders with cash couriers operating at the behest of the late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
Pambos Ioannides was testifying in the case of Tassos Papadopoulos & Co vs the Financial Times.
COMMUNIST AKEL yesterday set its apparatus in motion with a view to February’s presidential elections, while affirming allegiance to the three-way government coalition.
The party yesterday convened its Central Committee, the top decision-making body, to formulate an initial strategy for the 2008 elections.
THREE PEOPLE, including a schoolgirl, were killed just 12 hours apart in yet another weekend filled with accidents, raising this year’s road toll to 30, police said yesterday.
GREEK Cypriots contribute 15 per cent to the GNP of the Turkish Cypriots, Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said yesterday during the launch of two new schemes worth 30 million euros to boost trade between both sides.
A BI-COMMUNAL art competition for people of all ages has been launched by the UNDP’s Action for Co-operation and Trust.
The competition requires Cypriots, including professional artists, who are interested in entering to create a piece of art along one of the following themes: environment, identity, difference and equality, memories, spirituality and future.
CYPRIA Auctions is organising a second event to auction the work of Cypriots and Greek artists, following the success of their first auction in December last year.
POLITIS: “Offloading trouble to buyers”. The daily states that certain property developers are scamming foreign buyers and tourists buy selling them properties in coastal areas that are not allowed to be developed on. The paper claims that the “scandal” has been going for some time now and that the situation has now reached tragic proportions.
A STRIKE at the National Bank of Greece (NBG) arbitrarily called by bank employees union ETYK is now in its third week. Judging by what was said at last Saturday’s ETYK conference, the union has no intention of calling off the action it imposed against the will of the majority of the NBG’s workers unless it gets its way.
ESTONIA is one of the most wired countries in the world – people even vote on-line – but for the past three weeks the country has been under a massive cyber-attack that has disabled the websites of government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks and private companies.
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.
