EXPECTATION is riding high following the first meeting of the new Cabinet yesterday.
In his first address to his new Cabinet, President Demetris Christofias called upon his ministers, “to act in accordance with the commitments of the government and never to forget that a government is judged by how reliable and how successful it is.”
FEARS that institutional investors will pull out from local companies are completely unrelated to President Demetris Christofias’ recent election, and have everything to do with analysts’ misgivings over the Bank of Cyprus’ ability to make good on its promises.
“In my opinion it is not political at all,” a senior financial consultant said.
DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides was from yesterday the new Acting House President, following deputies’ switchover to the Cabinet.
The right-wing party’s Limassol MP, born in Moniatis in 1945, is the doyen of the House, following AKEL’s Costas Papacostas who was appointed to the Defence Ministry.
What happened to disciplinary probe?
THE GREEN light has been given by the state for the continuation of construction on top of a highly significant ancient site at the Pitharia area in Erimi, in the Limassol district.
PUPILS from all over Cyprus swarmed the grounds of the Cyprus State Fair Authority yesterday morning for a first acquaintance with higher education institutions.
And if you thought that the 15th International Education Fair was a final Lyceum year affair, you could not be more mistaken.
NEW Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou has said he intends to capitalise on a “new momentum” to unify the island and believes there is a real chance he can broker a long-term agreement.
LIMASSOL-based D. Nikolaou & Sons Ltd have announced the opening of the first Merkur outlet in Cyprus, Merkur D. Nikolaou, in Zakaki. Merkur is a European-wide franchise with a total of 80 outlets in a Europe and a 110-year presence in the market.
THERE appears to be good will on both sides for a resolution to the Cyprus problem, the UN Secretary-general’s Special Representative in Cyprus said yesterday.
FOUR AKEL runners-up from the May 2006 parliamentary elections will be nominated members of the 56-seat House of Representatives following the election of Demetris Christofias as President of the Republic of Cyprus and the appointment of three AKEL MPs in the new Cabinet.
Foreign Affairs Minister
Name: Marcos Kyprianou
Age: 48
Education: Law degree from Athens University, LL.M from Cambridge University, Masters from Harvard Law School.
Occupation: Practicing lawyer until 2003, when he became Finance Minister. In 2004 he was appointed EU Health Commissioner until his recent appointment as Foreign Minister.
Personal status: Single
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.
