CYPRIOTS are paying sky high prices for milk, cheese, eggs, fish and soft drinks, in some cases over 40 per cent above the EU average, according to a Eurostat report on 2006 prices within the bloc.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday named two high-flying women and two relatively young academics as caretaker ministers to replace the four AKEL appointees that resigned from the government on Wednesday.
The four ministers, all non-political appointees, will serve out the terms of office of their former predecessors until the presidential elections in February.
A BRITISH couple in Paphos were attacked in their home in the early hours of yesterday by three hooded men with a hunting rifle, police said.
THE Journalists Union has welcomed a Supreme Court decision which reversed a libel award against Politis newspaper.
The libel case revolved around a story which Politis had published about the then chairman of the Bar Association Nicos Papaefstathiou.
The union yesterday described the decision as “victory for freedom of speech”.
TWO Green MEPs yesterday called for urgent measures to be taken to prevent a continued “chaotic building spree” in the north of the island, and warned against the Turkish Cypriot authority’s plan to add the eastern tip of the Karpas peninsula to the electricity grid – something the two said was intended to “pave the way for huge foreign investments aimed at developing a mass tourist resort”.
A MAN has been remanded in custody for viciously attacking his pregnant girlfriend with a cutter.
The 37-year-old Romanian suspect is under investigation for causing grievous bodily harm and possession of a dangerous weapon for the attack that took place in Kapedes village in the Nicosia district.
THE POLICE Department has warned the public of the high risk of burglaries and theft expected on the island during the summer months, urging residents to take the necessary measures to protect themselves against theft.
A MAN who admitted to beating his wife after a row at work yesterday wanted to shake the hand of a judge who let him off with a suspended sentence and a £300 fine.
Ekrem Karadayi, 52, from the Turkish occupied village of Elia, admitted to the single charge of attacking his wife on July 10 this year and causing her injuries in the Nicosia village of Astromeritis.
THE ISLAND’s civil service came to a half-hour standstill yesterday morning following a work stoppage called by the PASYDY trade union over allegations made by Competition Protection Committee staff over the “dictatorial behaviour” of Committee Chairman George Christofides.
AN environmental awareness organisation is promoting recycling and solid waste management in Cyprus by taking its information services to the streets.
Non-profit and non-governmental AKTI Project and Research Centre has launched its new project, ‘Recycling on Cycles’, a part of the activities of the Cyprus Environmental Stakeholder Forum.
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.
