THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) will be ready by early next year to issue a request for tenders from airlines that could help boost traffic to the island from new destinations, officials said yesterday.
FOR THOSE who despair over the inactivity of the international community, there is a slight slimmer of hope from the whole mess in Georgia. Yesterday, I was sure Gori would suffer the fate of Famagusta in 1974. The Times reported on August 12 that the situation of panic caused by the defeat of Georgian army and sustained bombing of civilian areas.
A DOCTOR at the Paphos General Hospital has been seriously reprimanded after giving instructions to a pregnant woman in pain by phone, despite being on duty.
According to press reports on Thursday, a gynecologist who was on call on Monday night did not show up at the hospital when a heavily pregnant woman arrived at the hospital complaining of unbearable stomach pains.
The Nicosia Municipality is busy studying the proposals that it plans to submit to the discussion that will take place this coming autumn between the Interior Ministry and municipalities regarding urban planning.
SEVENTY-five per cent of people asked want Poseidonos Avenue in Kato Paphos to remain permanently closed to traffic.
A straw poll of 50 pedestrians in the area, consisting of locals, Cypriots from other towns, and tourists, showed 75 per cent of those asked hoped the seafront road would remain closed.
A WEAK earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale was recorded by seismographs at the Geological Survey Department yesterday at 9.25am.
THE PUBLIC Works Department of the Transport Ministry announced yesterday that the section of Themistokli Dervi Street in Nicosia, starting from the Florini Street junction until the traffic lights on Evagorou/Diagorou Avenue, will be made a one-way street with traffic allowed to flow towards the lights on Evagorou Avenue.
FRIENDS AND relatives of those who died in the Helios air crash yesterday mourned their loved ones, three years after the worst aviation disaster in Cyprus history.
CYPRUS yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of Turkey’s second offensive against the island in the summer of 1974, resulting in the occupation of the island’s northern third.
BRITISH home buyer Conor O’Dwyer marked his 39th birthday yesterday far away from his wife and children as he continued his indefinite protest outside the Cyprus High Commission in London.
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.
