PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias will visit Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat at his residence in Kyrenia, the government confirmed yesterday.
Christofias has been invited to the wedding of Talat’s daughter, and although he will not be attending the event today, he plans to cross to the north soon to give his congratulations.
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I read with utter disbelief that a supposed pillar of our society has not only broken the law but has been given a pardon from our new President!
THE DEMETRIOU family of Pentalia village in Paphos is requesting urgent help from the government of Cyprus.
Pentalia village is all but abandoned, due to severe landslips and subsidence, and villagers are being moved to another area close by.
There are only a few people left in what has become a ghost village, and the Demetriou family are appealing to be moved.
A GROUP of 40 international human rights activists will attempt to sail directly from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip next week in an effort to break Israel’s long-standing blockade of the besieged area.
THE chairman of the parliament’s transport committee urged the government yesterday to act immediately to rectify the protracted problems experienced at the island’s two airports after ground handling services were handed over to private companies.
THE ENORMOUS statue of Archbishop Makarios currently standing at the grounds of the Archbishopric in Nicosia will be moved in August, the island’s top cleric said yesterday.
Work to replace the 10-metre statue that has stood in the heart of the capital for the past 15 years has already started.
THE SECOND tanker carrying Greek water has now been successfully unloaded, while the lab results for the water aboard the third tanker, the Xifias, are expected before its unloading begins.
Nevertheless, Limassol Water Board yesterday clarified that water cuts would continue for the time being.
NICOSIA will not after all be facing additional water cuts, after supply was increased to the capital after having been cut back last week.
A spokesman at the Nicosia Water Board said the danger was averted as the Water Development Department will now provide the Nicosia Board with additional quantities of water.
SOVEREIGN Base Area Police are on the hunt for a man witnessed carrying out indecent acts of a sexual nature in a public place.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, July 16, at 9am on Lady’s Mile Beach between KAOA and the Bishop restaurant.
RESTAURANT takings are down 40 per cent on 2007, Paphos restaurateurs warned yesterday.
The stark figures were given by the local president of the Federation of the Paphos Association of Restaurants, Fitos Thrassivoulou.
“We are experiencing more problems in Cyprus every year,” he told the Cyprus Mail. “As time goes by, it’s harder for restaurants to survive.”
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.
