EUROPE’S FARM chief called on retailers yesterday not to make EU consumers pay excessively for staple foods such as bread and milk despite recent surges in international grain and dairy markets.
THE Cypriot cruise ship Salamis Glory rammed into a fishing vessel coming out of the Israeli port of Haifa late last night leaving two of the trawler crew missing.
The fishing boat sank off the Israeli coast after colliding with the Salamis Glory, Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service told Reuters.
A FIVE-MEMBER ministerial committee will deal with all the practical issues deriving from the government’s decision to undertake the cost of rebuilding Artemida village in the Peloponnese, which was razed by the ongoing forest fires in Greece.
EUROPE’S FARM chief called on retailers yesterday not to make EU consumers pay excessively for staple foods such as bread and milk despite recent surges in international grain and dairy markets.
AS THE FIRST day of the school year draws closer, confusion continues to prevail on what exactly students will be wearing when they return to class.
COMMERCE Minister Antonis Michaelides yesterday accused opposition parties of creating undue anxiety among consumers by exaggerating and dramatising recent price hikes.
Michaelides warned that by misleading the public there was a danger of creating wrong impressions which could result in further price increases and creating a problem where none existed.
GOVERNMENT Spokesman Vassilis Palmas said yesterday that Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat has agreed to discuss ways to move forward a UN-brokered agreement, during his meeting with President Tassos Papadopoulos on September 5.
THE GOVERNMENT believes Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots accepted the UN-proposed solution, the Annan plan, since it “gave them everything”.
LAW COMMISSIONER and head of human rights’ support group ETHNOPAD Leda Koursoumba has been appointed Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
Koursoumba’s new mission imposed by the Cabinet is to defend and promote children’s rights.
POLICE HAVE issued an arrest warrant for a Nicosia man in connection with fraud and theft to the tune of nearly £60,000. A statement said that Costas Michaelides, a.k.a. Ecevit was wanted for the theft of property worth £7,000 and for stealing three cheque books which he used to write £50,000 worth of fraudulent cheques. Anyone who might know of his whereabouts should call 1460.
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.
