THE coming month will be particularly challenging for water consumption as delays and miscalculations in water management, in combination with the drying up of dams, means that there is simply not enough water to supply Cyprus.
THE NICOSIA-Athens-Ankara triangle was abuzz with diplomatic activity yesterday ahead of tomorrow’s start of substantive Cyprus negotiations.
UN special envoy Alexander Downer was in Athens on Monday, and is due to have contacts in Ankara today before flying back to Cyprus tonight, while Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou was in the Greek capital.
COMPULSORY military service could be reduced if suggestions currently being examined by the ministry of defence are adopted.
A LOT will be judged in the European Court of Human Rights in 2009 regarding the property issue in Cyprus
PAPHOS Airport will officially start operating on November 17 and cracks have already started to show.
In a discussion at yesterday’s House Communications Committee, which at times became heated, it emerged that there were a number of problems that need to be addressed before the airport opens its doors to the public.
THE ATTORNEY-general’s investigation into the 2005 Helios crash, which killed all 121 passengers and crew members on board, is in its final stages.
In a meeting that took place behind closed doors yesterday, Attorney-general Petros Clerides filled in the House Communications Committee with all the latest developments in the investigation.
IF FARMERS don’t see state aid or rain by the winter, Cyprus will cease to have a farming sector, one farmer warned parliament yesterday.
Speaking before the House Agriculture Committee, general secretary of the National Agricultural Organisation of Cyprus, Michalis Lytras told deputies that the last time Cyprus suffered as bad a drought was in 1973.
POLICE chief Iacovos Papacostas yesterday denied that investigators had not taken the attack on Civil Registry and Migration director Anny Shakalli seriously.
“[The incident] never stopped being investigated,” he said.
SCHOOLCHILDREN and teachers across the island are being given a unique opportunity to work with one of the biggest names in world education, on an underwater research project.
TWENTY-FOUR immigrants being held “indefinitely” in Nicosia’s Block 10 have threatened to go on hunger strike next Monday if the government does not end their detention.
The 24 detainees yesterday sent a letter to the Ombudswoman, Interior Ministry, UNHCR and Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighting their plight and calling for help.
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.
