THE UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday warned Cyprus to stamp out bogus holiday clubs before they take hold and damage the tourist industry.
Holiday or ‘vacation’ clubs are an offshoot of timeshare activities. They emerged when the EU brought strict legislation to protect consumers from timeshare.
ONE IN FIVE children in Cyprus today could die of smoking-related conditions if smoking is not banned from all public places, a top public health expert warned yesterday.
The all-out ban should include bars, caf?s, nightclubs and restaurants, where potentially lethal second-hand smoke particles are as much as 40 times the recommended limit.
PRESIDENTIAL Commissioner George Iacovou and Ozdil Nami, the adviser to Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, agreed details for a further three committees and working groups yesterday.
The two men met for five hours at the Ledra Palace to bring the total agreed committees and groups to eight out of the 13 originally proposed.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias has asked all members of the National Council to submit their proposals on ways to make the advisory body more effective.
Speaking after yesterday’s first National Council meeting under Christofias, Government Spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said the members of the Council had been asked to submit their ideas in writing.
COMING less than two weeks after a three-day visit to the north of the island by the Turkish military Chief of Staff Yasar Buyukanit, the arrival in Cyprus yesterday of the Commander of the Turkish Army Ilker Basbug has raised questions about the Turkish military’s view of a recent thaw in relations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.
ILLINOIS Senator and US Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama believes that the time has come for new optimism for a solution to the Cyprus issue, reports from Washington said yesterday.
In his opening remarks at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the confirmation hearing of Ambassador-designate to Cyprus Frank C.
TENDERS for transporting water from Greece were submitted to the Water Development Department yesterday.
Senior water engineer at the Water Development Department (WDD) Vlassis Partassides told the Mail that he was hopeful that they could review the tenders within the day, or by the end of the week.
SALES of water tanks have shot through the roof, with consumers now hard pressed to find any in stock.
Since water cuts were implemented earlier this month, reports of chaos have come flooding in, with many homes complaining of having little or no water.
THE TURKISH ban on Cypriot ships was one of the issues discussed yesterday between President Demetris Christofias and shipping bosses on the island.
Yesterday’s meeting was held ahead of today’s annual general meeting of the Cyprus Shipping Council (CSC) in Limassol, which will focus on the necessity of a Cyprus Shipping Chamber.
THE 23-YEAR-old Indian man who brutally stabbed a young woman in broad daylight in the heart of Nicosia was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days, police said.
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.
