THE GOVERNMENT yesterday tried to stay upbeat in the wake of criticism that its oil plans amounted to a flop, after just four companies expressed interest in offshore hydrocarbon exploration south of the island.
Cyprus had 11 offshore blocks on offer. Thursday’s bids concerned a US company bidding for one block, and a consortium bidding for another two.
THE INTRODUCTION of a tram system to Nicosia is on the table again, much to the displeasure of bus and taxi drivers across the capital.
Bus drivers have in fact threatened that if such an idea is even considered, they will go on an indefinite strike in September.
AFTER a rocky week due to a global market downturn, the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) general index ended the week’s trading by gaining back some of its earlier losses.
On Thursday, the market dropped around four per cent.
Players made to regret their ‘holiday trip’ taunts as refugee side bring healthy lead back to Cyprus
CYPRIOT UEFA Cup representatives Anorthosis Famagusta enhanced their growing reputation in European football after claiming the scalp of the much fancied Romanian Cup holdes CFR 1907 Cluj.
LAST SUNDAY, this paper highlighted the ongoing disgrace of Ayia Napa’s rubbish dump overlooking a stunning sea view next to a CTO signposted beauty spot at Cape Greco.
I CAN’T REMEMBER much of the Marx Brothers’ film A Night At The Opera, except that it was one of our family favourites, and that the final scene, which causes havoc, reduced most people sitting on the sofa after Sunday tea to tears of laughter. The opera in question that Harpo swings so perilously across and the brothers manage to totally wreck is Il trovatore.
TRIAL BY TV & PASYDY – George Christofides the President of the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) has been sentenced even before he has been told to appear in court. Whatever happened to the sanctity of innocent until proven guilty?
THE HEALTH of a National Guard conscript being treated in Israel for heatstroke is steadily improving, the Defence Ministry said yesterday.
According to the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Petros Kareklas, 18-year-old Neophytos Georgiou is slowly getting better, after being struck down with heatstroke during the heat wave almost a month ago.
SCORES of holidaymakers destined for Crete, have had their holidays cut short after not agreeing to an alternative flight when the Hellas Jet plane they were set to travel with broke down.
Meanwhile, in Greece, around 80 elderly couples were yesterday left stranded as Hellas Jet was unable to accommodate them with an alternative flight back to Cyprus.
A TURKISH man who saw a photograph of missing child Christakis Georgiou in Sabah newspaper contacted Politis saying the child in the photo was familiar to him, the paper reported yesterday.
Since early this year, Politis has been pursuing leads in Turkey in an attempt to track down Georgiou, who disappeared after the Turkish invasion when he was five years old.
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.
