WE WOULD like to apologise to our readers for adopting the practice of chemists and petrol garages and closing down for two weeks in August. This does not normally happen in the cut-throat coffeeshop business, which is way too competitive and back-stabbing to be organised into a pancyprian association like the other professions, but this year we had no choice.
THERE is no need to state the obvious about how vital water is to human life, and even in the past six months in Cyprus, lifestyles have had to change drastically to work around the stringent restrictions in supply.
TWO boats carrying international activists and humanitarian supplies yesterday arrived in Gaza after leaving from Cyprus on Friday, breaking an Israeli blockade. They were welcomed by crowds of cheering Palestinians.
THE UKCA in Chlorakas Paphos has shed its dated image, along with its old clubhouse, in favour of a facelift of the premises, and a new direction for the membership.
Chairman of the UKCA in Paphos, David Cornthwaite, took over the position 11 months ago, and in that time, has already racked up major changes to the British expat club.
A MAN from the village of Kyra in the north has shot his ex-wife dead.
Huseyin Inci, 32, shot Ayse Kanat then tried to commit suicide.
According to authorities, the 35-year-old woman, who received a gunshot wound to the head, was killed instantly.
THE AGRICULTURE Ministry is keeping close watch on dairy and sheep farms after high levels of the carcinogenic neurotoxin aflatoxin M1 were found in fresh milk and animal feed.
The discovery comes only months after an aflatoxin outbreak threatened to cripple the island’s dairy industry.
FOR the first time, the annual World Press Photo Exhibition will be in Cyprus next month.
IT IS EXTREMELY difficult to take this week’s public row between Archbishop Chrysostomos and President Christofias seriously, even though it has been given great prominence by the media.
AT A TIME in place and memory the history of chance heard its calling and came to rest on the rather obstinate shoulders of a certain Christopher Columbus. And the rest is history, so they say.
LAST MONTH, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules.
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.
