LIMASSOL Water Board has called for a crisis meeting with the Agriculture Minister as water reserves run dry with emergency supplies from Greece continuously delayed by technical problems.
THE GOVERNMENT announced yesterday that it had begun a disciplinary investigation against ground handling companies Swissport and LGS in light of the chaotic situation at the island’s airports.
AS PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday continued his meetings with the political parties, senior aides met under UN auspices to work out the agenda for Friday’s crucial meeting between the leaders.
FORTY-five earthquakes registering 3.0 or less on the Richter scale were recorded between April and June this year, the Geological Survey’s Department said yesterday. The epicentres of this year’s 45 tremors occurred at distances of between two and 75 kilometres.
THE RESULTS of a Cyprus Consumers Association (CCA) survey yesterday confirmed what everyone’s been thinking, that average prices have gone up since last year.
A NUMBER of pet poisoning incidents have taken place at Governor’s Beach caravan site, following the refusal on the part of residents to get rid of their dogs. Following the CTO’s request, site management told residents that dogs were no longer be allowed on site, which enraged pet-owners who were initially told they could keep dogs at their caravans.
CYPRUS COULD have saved billions had an agreement to bring natural gas to the island been signed back in 2000, the Director of the island’s Energy Service said yesterday.
THE Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and Marfin Popular Bank (MPB) are both expected to record profits for the second quarter of the year, according to financial forecasters.
A BUS driver and her 12 children descended on the Transport Department in Nicosia yesterday to demand the €13,000 she claims the government has owed her for years.
Sotiroula Michaelidou told reporters outside the Communications Ministry that the government has owed her the money for the last four years.
CYPRUS and Malta have agreed to open a joint diplomatic representation in Ramallah and to share the premises of the Cypriot embassy in Tel Aviv.
The agreement was reached during talks which Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou held in Malta with his Maltese counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister Tonio Borg.
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.
