TURKISH Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday came under harsh criticism for upsetting the climate ahead of next week’s peace talks, when he referred to a Cyprus solution based on two founder states and political equality of both communities.
Iacovou walks out of meeting over Limnitis crossing impasse
PRESIDENTIAL Commissioner George Iacovou yesterday walked out of his scheduled meeting with his Turkish Cypriot counterpart after being informed of the north’s decision to reject a request by Kato Pyrgos residents to go on an organised pilgrimage via the Limnitis checkpoint.
A GOVERNMENT-commissioned report on teenage delinquency suggests tackling rising teenage crime through a series of measures based on the fact that prevention is better than the cure.
THE TWO ‘Free Gaza’ boats anchored at Larnaca port last night, after successfully breaking the Israeli sea blockade of the Strip last Saturday.
Joining the 39 peace activists was a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, Sa’ad Mesleh, who lost his left leg in an Israeli missile attack on militants.
A PRISON warden at the Central Prisons was stealing from the Prisoners’ Fund and spending the money on gambling
From the check conducted by the Audit Office, it was found that €8,500 had gone missing, but the investigation carried out by the CID Headquarters shows that the amount is far greater and inside information talks of €40,000.
TRADE unions PEO and DEVIS gave a vote of confidence today to President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in view of Wednesday’s direct talks.
THE CHIEF of police yesterday called on the public to help in identifying the hooligans who ran riot across Nicosia on Thursday night, following European victories for the capital’s two rival football teams.
About 100 hooded young men, believed to be APOEL fans, attacked and caused serious damage to cafés and cars on Makariou Avenue in Nicosia in the early hours of yesterday.
OLE OLE CONFUSIONS – like most of Cyprus, this scribe was with Anorthosis last Wednesday. How could anyone not be, considering the hostile reception given to the local side by looney Olympiakos bikers in Athens?
The 1-0 defeat means Anorthosis become the first Cypriot side to qualify in the Euro Champions League, writing their own significant page in history.
AT THE centre of Athens in the old Plaka lies Vrettos, established for a hundred years, an Aladdin’s cave of lurid coloured liqueurs with equally exotic ingredients: carnations, cinnamon, morello cherries and masticha. Like some old fashioned apothecary, with Lily the Pink’s medicinal compounds.
A BIRD STRIKE on a Cyprus Airways aircraft landing in Greece on Thursday went on to cause long delays for passengers.
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.
