CYPRUS is one of only three EU countries which pours the highest percentage of GDP into public education, and was one of the best performers in the EU’s annual education report released yesterday.
Denmark, Sweden and Cyprus allocate nearly 7 per cent of their GDP for public investment in education, the report said.
PARLIAMENT yesterday approved the extension of dual price display until the end of the year instead of September.
Socialist lawmaker Marinos Sizopoulos, who tabled the bill, said that despite substantial public adjustment to the new currency, the euro, it would be best to extend dual display – pounds and euros – to help consumers.
CYPRUS is the fifth most expensive country in the EU in which to buy consumer electronics and household appliances.
According to a European Commission eurostat survey, consumer electronics in Cyprus are ten per cent more expensive than the EU average.
A COUPLE was left devastated this week when their beloved dog died after eating a poison-laced morsel on busy Ayios Antonios Street in Kato Paphos.
Also known as Bar street, Ayios Antonios is one of the busiest areas in Paphos and its restaurants, cafés and pedestrianised section attract much of the town’s tourist traffic.
UNITED Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon will hold separate meetings with the leaders of Cyprus’ ethnically divided communities in a symbolic move to show support to negotiations, reports said yesterday.
State television CyBC reported that Ban will see President Demetris Christofias on July 13 in Paris, on the sidelines of the Euro-Mediterranean Summit.
THIS YEAR’S oil crisis and spiralling food costs made it very difficult to monitor fair pricing during the transition over to the euro. Add to this the inability of the watchdog to punish offenders and the overall results were disappointing.
This was the verdict delivered by the head of the Nicosia Euro Observatory, Argyris Papanastasiou, in a news conference yesterday.
CYPRUS wants to create an Independent Food Service Authority and has called in Irish experts to provide advice on the best way forward.
Two specialists from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) were brought in to attend a seminar arranged yesterday by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KEVE).
ENERGY, climate, migration, security and defence and the Common Agricultural Policy are the main priorities which France will concentrate on upon assuming the six-month EU Presidency on July 1.
Speaking to the media yesterday, French Ambassador to Cyprus Nicolas Galey presented his country’s objectives.
RESIDENTS OF Limassol’s Governor’s Beach caravan site are up in arms after being told that they have to get rid of their pet dogs or move out within one month.
When purchasing their caravans, the residents were told they were allowed to have dogs, and they are now outraged by the sudden change in the rules.
TWO controversial bills currently before the House were postponed until after the summer break in yesterday’s last plenary session which included more than 80 pieces of legislation.
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.
