PEEVED over the cancellation of a football match, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday abruptly pulled out of what would have been the first meeting in over a year with President Tassos Papadopoulos.
We read with interest a letter from Sonia and CJ Royer in the Sunday Mail’s June 17 edition entitled “We can relax again in Coral Bay”. After our recent trip to Paphos, we can tell readers the reason Coral Bay is quiet is because all the boats have moved to Corallia Beach.
My wife and I holidayed at the Corallia Beach Hotel Apartment from June 9 to 29.
Dear Sir,
I would like to pass on my thanks and appreciation to the staff at Paphos General Hospital. On June 22, I was taken to the Casualty Dept suffering from lower stomach pains. Within 10 minutes I was diagnosed with peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix and just over two hours later I was taken to theatre for an operation.
THE BODIES of 13 Turkish Cypriot men killed in 1974 were finally laid to rest at a full military funeral in the north yesterday.
All 13 men were from the village of Alaminos, near Larnaca, and their remains were among the first to be returned to relatives by the UN-sponsored, bicommunal Committee for Missing Persons (CMP).
FIFTEEN Greek Cypriots listed as missing since the Turkish invasion in 1974, whose remains have been exhumed and recently identified are being buried at various cemeteries in different areas of the island.
The first burial, that of Pieris Adamou from occupied Yialousa, was held on Sunday in Dherynia, while Savvas Kallis Hadjipanteli, also from Yialousa, will be buried tomorrow.
THERE were angry scenes yesterday in Eleftheria Square after distraught relatives of the Helios crash victims vented their anger at political figures that showed up at their demonstration.
Earlier this week, the relatives of the victims had announced that they would be staging a protest because they claimed that the government had failed to bring those responsible to justice.
PARLIAMENT yesterday refused to acknowledge a veto by President Tassos Papadopoulos on the stacking of products with Genetically Modified (GM) content on separate supermarket shelves, the Green Party said.
PEOPLE have been warned to be on the lookout for crooks selling fake jewellery.
According to the police, a gang, made up of both men and women, has been operating across the island, selling the fakes as real gold.
Their methods involve gaining sympathy by pretending to be poor, or by saying that their children have health problems.
TWO thousand people in the public and private sectors will receive training in health and safety issues in an effort to reduce by a quarter the annual number of working accidents and professional ailments by 2012.
The 1.75 million euro project is part of an EU Technical Assistance Project, which aims to slash working accidents and sickness over the next five years.
DRAFT dodgers and conscientious objectors service have been hit hard by news that they will have to do 30 months’ community service if they do not enlist into the army.
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.
