JUNE 27 will be a “black day for the country”, a senior trade unionist warned yesterday in the wake of a 24-hour warning strike over the electricity authority’s objection to the states plans for a floating LNG terminal.
CYPRUS’ FAILURE to amend its human trafficking legislation, to abolish cabaret work permits and to open a shelter for trafficking victims, has meant that the government has been placed on a Tier 2 Watch List for a second consecutive year, according to this year’s US Trafficking in Persons report.
THE TURKISH military took a swipe at the Turkish Cypriot administration yesterday by barring media outlets sympathetic to the leadership from covering a search and rescue exercise off the northern coast.
The annual event is popular with the Turkish and Turkish Cypriot media, and is traditionally covered by all outlets regardless of political leanings.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday acknowledged the US report on human trafficking, with Government Spokesman Vassilis Palmas saying not everything works perfectly in the country.
THE CHURCH is to fork out half a million pounds to overhaul its ageing fleet of limousines.
According to reports in yesterday’s Phileleftheros, the Mercs and BMWs used for driving around the Holy Fathers in style are getting on a bit, necessitating the massive investment by the wealthy Archbishopric.
IOANNIS Kasoulides last night officially announced that he will be running as an independent candidate in next February’s Presidential elections.
Overseas sales have dropped 86% since 2003
A LACK of policy and cheaper wines from other parts of the world are the main reasons for the decline of wine exports from Cyprus, it has emerged.
Infestation threatens island’s plants
AN INSECT that targets and destroys palm trees has turned up in Cyprus, infesting plants in four major districts, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday.
If no measures are taken to deal with the problem the island’s palm trees will die at an annual rate of five per cent, experts have warned.
ALITHIA: “22 units have been closed down in Limassol alone”. The daily writes that the tourism industry is already feeling the predicted downward spiral. Hotel units are closing down around the island and being replaced by apartments.
A SEARCH is under way for a 57-year-old man who went missing from a care home in Nicosia on Saturday.
Neophytos Papaneophytou is described as being 170cm in height, of medium-build and with short, white hair.
At the time of his disappearance, he was wearing blue jeans and a shirt and was holding a bag and a radio.
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.
