AS TIME moves closer to new Cyprus negotiations, the pressure is mounting on both leaders from factions on their respective sides after a five-year sabbatical when the Cyprus issue went nowhere.
Mediators see the planned July 25 meeting of President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat as the last hurdle before full-fledged negotiations.
THE DRUG SQUAD yesterday uncovered a massive drugs ring in a sting that has been in operation for the past few weeks.
Three drugs barons, two Greek Cypriots and a Turkish Cypriot, were yesterday arrested and kept in custody, while police were also searching for another Turkish Cypriot, believed to be a big heroin dealer.
THE WATER brought in from Greece has passed all quality controls and will be distributed this weekend, Agricultural Minister Michalis Polynikis said yesterday. Meanwhile, works on the pump and pipeline continue and connection to the supply system is believed to finish soon.
THE COMPANY blamed for the chaotic scenes at the island’s airports over the last month yesterday agreed to employ an additional 70 workers to help alleviate the situation.
DOG OWNERS in Peyia are up in arms over newly erected signs along Coral Bay headland, seemingly preventing them from walking their dogs along coastal paths.
Speaking to the Cyprus Mail yesterday, local resident and dog owner Norman Thody said the situation was unacceptable.
THE GLASS is neither half-empty or half-full, according to a new poll measuring Cypriots’ predictions for the future. Answering the question on how they saw their lives in 2028, half of all Cypriots said they though life would be better, with the other half predicting a downturn.
‘The consumer is actually at fault for not reporting illegal sales’
SHOPKEEPERS union POVEK yesterday demanded that the law regulating shop sales on the island is properly implemented.
AROUND 120 Turkish Cypriot students and teachers have been awarded scholarships by the European Commission, a press release announced yesterday.
This allows them to study an undergraduate or postgraduate programme or engage in research in any of the other 26 Member States of the EU for the duration of maximum one year.
SIX PEOPLE have filed a class action against the Cyprus Republic and Bank of Cyprus (BoC) Oncology Centre for making their or their relatives’ health condition worse and causing death due to negligence.
BRITISH Airways has celebrated the launch of its new daily Paphos to Gatwick service with an event at the Intercontinental Aphrodite Hills Resort Hotel, near Paphos.
The new flights operate seven days a week and bring the number of scheduled flights operated by British Airways between Cyprus and London every week to 14.
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.
