CYPRUS could be heading for a head-on collision with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over the land-swap deal between a Greek and Turkish Cypriot, former Attorney-general Alecos Markides said yesterday.
GOAT and sheep farmers yesterday threatened to dump their animals outside the Presidential Palace if the government doesn’t come to their assistance.
A SHIPMENT of euro coins arrived from Finland yesterday morning at Limassol port before being transported under heavy police security to Nicosia.
Twelve containers contained a total of 1 million euros in cents.
THE MAJORITY of Greek and Turkish Cypriots find interaction with the other community a ‘positive experience’. According to a survey commissioned by the UNDP in May, 82 per cent of Greek Cypriots and 65 per cent of Turkish Cypriots described their contact with the other community as a ‘positive experience’ while 18 and 14 per cent respectively thought the interaction a ‘negative’ one.
THREE JAPANESE volunteers have come all the way to Cyprus to present a two-metre aluminium peace pole to UNFICYP’s Chief of Mission Michael Moller today.
The three representatives of the World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) will hand over Cyprus’ first peace pole at a special ceremony at Nicosia’s Ledra Palace to mark International Peace Day.
AN OPENING round of talks aimed at ending more than 50 years of deadlock in Cypriot football has ended with both sides confident of reaching a solution.
The two-hour meeting at the headquarters of world soccer’s governing body FIFA yesterday involved delegates from the official Cyprus FA and the non-official Cyprus Turkish FA.
AKEL’s United Democratic Youth Organisation, EDON, said yesterday it was deeply concerned with the Education Ministry’s inaction regarding fee increases at private universities.
“The Education Ministry has so far refused to take a clear position on the issue and to intervene substantially to protect students,” the youth group said.
THE HOUSE Legal Affairs Committee yesterday authorised the Legal Services and Land Registry Office to prepare a bill that would improve procedures for land purchases.
THE GOVERNMENT is palpably nervous about a case being considered by the European Court of Human Rights that could see the court approve a planned exchange of property with a Greek Cypriot refugee receiving Turkish Cypriot land in the south in compensation for his land in the occupied areas.
A DRIVING instructor has been detained in police custody on suspicion of forging medical certificates for lorry drivers.
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.
