THE CYPRUS talks yesterday got off to a low-key start in terms of show, but some real work was done on the issue of governance during the four and a half hour meeting, according to those close to the process.
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I would like to refer to the headline, ‘Hands off our history books’ and the editorial, ‘To rewrite history, you need to rewrite the history books’, in the September 6 edition of the Cyprus Mail.
A LIMASSOL junior football club traveled to the north on Tuesday to play in a match against Turkish Cypriot students, having been given authorisation by the Minister of Education to take time off school.
Around 40 Greek Cypriot students, all members of the AEL football academy, took part in the game under supervision of the Football Veterans’ Testimonial programme.
BLACK cabs are to be imported to the island from the UK and will go on sale from next week.
The Char. Pilakoutas Group will be holding a news conference on Monday at the residence of the British High Commissioner in Nicosia to show off one of the TX4 vehicles.
THE Environment Commissioner yesterday sent guidelines to all municipalities across the island, urging them to install a bicycle parking system.
Charalambos Theopemptou explained that the specific system is used all over the world and is “very cheap and easy to install.”
He added that there is nowhere in Cyprus where people can currently safely leave their bicycles.
FOOTBALL associations yesterday called for greater awareness of banned doping agents in organised sport.
The Pancyprian Footballers association (CFA), in co-operation with the Ministry of Health and other sports organisations, announced their involvement in a global effort to combat the use of performance enhancing drugs.
CYPRIOT singer Marlain Angelidou has won an international music festival by representing Greece with ‘Rejection’, a song that ironically was rejected for representing Cyprus in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.
On August 29 and 30, the city of Pancevo in Serbia hosted the second International Pop Music Festival ‘Pan Music’.
GREEK Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots from the area of Tylliria yesterday held a joint demonstration outside the UNPA for the opening of the Limnitis crossing as Cyprus talks got under way.
Residents have been pushing for the opening of Limnitis since the first crossing opened at the Ledra Palace in April 2003.
THE NICOSIA Dog Shelter is organising its fifth annual Dogathon charity event on Saturday, October 11.
A 49-YEAR-old Larnaca importer and his family are seeking €10 million in damages after their lives were destroyed when he was arrested on pornography charges over three years ago.
Charilaos Charilaou was acquitted of all 18 charges connected to the importation of pornographic DVDs and videos in early 2005.
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.
