FOLLOWING almost two months of drought, rains at last began to fall in Cyprus yesterday, with the Met Service promising more to come in the days ahead.
But unless there is systematic rain over the coming months, the news is likely to come as scant relief to the island’s water supply, at its lowest levels in almost a decade.
BANK of Cyprus Public Company Ltd has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of 95 per cent of the share capital of the Ukrainian bank AvtoZAZBank for €52 million.
THE EU has made available up to €500,000 in aid for the support of Turkish Cypriot sheep and goat farmers. Brussels will pay up to 65 per cent of the cost of selected projects to improve hygiene on sheep and goat farms in the Turkish Cypriot community.
KATO Polemidia Council has launched a campaign against the illegal spraying of slogans and offensive symbols on walls.
“We need to give more education and culture to our youth. We also need new aesthetic approaches to public areas. We all have a role to play in this effort. Let’s change things!
AYIOS Athanasios Council has launched a project to beautify the area south of the Linopetra housing estate, close to the Ayios Stylianos church.
“The execution of this project was a universal demand of the area’s residents to the government authorities,” said the Mayor of Ayios Athanasios, Kyriakos Hadjittofis.
“IF CONSUMERS are not fully aware of their rights, they might as well be walking around blind.”
That was the verdict of the Commerce Ministry’s Competition and Consumer Protection Service, commenting on work done over the past 18 months on a consumer guide which plans to inform consumers about their rights.
THERE IS a worrying trend in Cyprus of increasing violence against children and violence in the family, according to one non-government organisation yesterday.
MORE than 100 Chinese companies are participating in the Euro-China Business Week, which kicked off yesterday at the International Merchandising Centre (IMC) in Nicosia for the first time.
The six-day event will present a large variety of Chinese products, services and new technologies for export, said Andreas Kaisis, Chairman of the IMC.
THE GREEN Party has voted to throw its weight behind President Tassos Papadopoulos in next February’s presidential elections.
Party members voted on Sunday to support Papadopoulos’ candidacy with 46 votes, or 79.3 per cent, from 58 elected representatives.
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon could be gearing up to appoint a new special advisor for Cyprus, indicating that new talks on a settlement could become a reality next year.
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.
