INFLATION hit a new five-year high of 5.5 per cent high year on year in June as a result of more hikes in fuel, electricity and bread, the Statistics Department announced yesterday.
Food went up 7.69 per cent since June 2007. Housing, water, electricity and gas rose 7.77 per cent, transport costs 7.39 per cent, and restaurants and hotels 9.15 per cent.
Air of celebration condemned by those who see the tankers as proof of a failed water policy
A DECISION by oil companies to open their own private outlets and open them during the summer holidays where other stations traditionally close down, was yesterday at the centre of discussions at the House Commerce Committee.
THE WAY was cleared yesterday for full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue when a major concern of the Greek Cypriot side was addressed and agreed in principle between the two leaders.
RESIDENTS OF Achelia in Paphos are once again having to deal with disgusting odours and numerous flies from the wastewater treatment plant, SABA, close to their homes.
As summer temperatures rise, so do tempers as villagers face the annual stench and thousands of buzzing flies that emanate from the site.
AIR AMBULANCES were launched in Cyprus yesterday, linking the island to a series of specialised medical centres abroad.
The first service of its kind on the island, it is being operated by iMER (International Medical Evaluation and Referral) and the Hadassah Academic Medical Centre of Jerusalem.
FORMER PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides was taken to the Evangelistria Clinic yesterday afternoon suffering from a lung infection
Eighty-nine-year-old Clerides was admitted after he complained of chest pains
THE CONTROVERSIAL inflation-linked Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) that is added to salaries every six months is both necessary and unnecessary, University of Cyprus researchers say.
FINANCE Minster Charilaos Stavrakis met yesterday with Co-Op bank leaders who are concerned about a possible flight of deposits if Europe increases interest rates this week.
The Co-Ops, which hold 25 per cent of the banking market, are also concerned that inflation will result in people being unable to meet their loan payments.
NEW UNIVERSITY entrants are being bombarded with SMS from political parties before they have even enrolled, a move some groups have condemned as a gross violation of privacy.
The Green Party yesterday strongly condemned the “vehement violation of personal data” of new students at the University of Cyprus by student political movements.
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.
