THE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday banned the export of meat and dairy products from Cyprus as the Veterinary Services slaughtered 300 animals suspected of suffering from foot and mouth.
Although Europe’s official confirmation of the disease was yesterday still pending, Agriculture Minister Fotis Fotiou said an EU expert who arrived at the weekend considered the disease a fact.
FORMER honorary consul of Ireland Stephanos Stephanou will be buried today amid a host of unanswered questions surrounding his arrest, detention and death in the north last Thursday.
POLITICIANS were at each other’s throats over the weekend, working overtime to earn extra brownie points ahead of the 2008 election.
RASIT Pertev has resigned as Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat’s chief political adviser, saying he is giving up his top post in order to form a new political party with “a truly reformist agenda”.
THE JUSTICE Minister yesterday announced he was promoting a regulation that would allow petty criminals to serve their sentence under house arrest.
Speaking during the House Finance Committee’ discussion on his ministry’s 2008 budget, Sophoclis Sophocleous said the measure would ease the overpopulation problem faced by prisons and help convicts reintegrate into society.
WITH euro adoption only 55 days away, the Finance Ministry is urging people to look out for the Turkish one lira coin which resembles the €2 coin but is worth about four times less.
Cyprus is particularly vulnerable to the confusion due the circulation of the Turkish lira in the north.
TWO RUSSIAN cosmonauts will get a rare chance to compare life in space with the trials and tribulations of Cypriot life next month when they arrive on our shores to talk space and Sputniks as part of the Fakas Institute’s ‘50 Years in Space’ celebrations.
THERE was no noticeable change in the cost of consumer goods for October, the latest government price watch has shown.
The survey covered 346 items available in supermarkets, bakeries and butcher’s shops, including basic foodstuffs, and housecleaning and personal hygiene products.
THE DEFENCE Ministry is at loggerheads with Nicosia Municipality over what to do with the old Philoxenia Hotel on Aglandja Avenue. According to one ministry official, the ministry wants to use it as the new premises for its Officers Club, which is being kicked out of its current home behind the old GSP Stadium.
NICOSIA Mayor Eleni Mavrou yesterday vented her frustration at the lack of state support for local authorities, saying the capital was suffering as a result. Mavrou argued not enough money was given for important works, while loan applications were lost in red tape preventing the municipality from implementing necessary projects.
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.
