Elders Tutu, Carter and Brahimi head to Cyprus to promote talks process
ELDER STATESMEN Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Lakhdar Brahimi will visit Cyprus on October 8 and 9 to support and bring more international attention to the new negotiations process, it was announced yesterday.
A CRISIS plan to salvage tourism from the looming global economic downturn has been drawn up by The Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO), Director General Phoebe Katsouri said yesterday.
“We are trying to identify markets and clients that can give us the opportunity to maintain levels and income in the short term, and focus on those,” Katsouri told the Cyprus Mail.
A 49-YEAR-OLD Limassol farmer has been caught red-handed stealing water destined for the area’s underground reserves.
The man had been diverting water from a channel used to transfer water from the Greek tankers into the Yermasoyia dam. The man was using the water to irrigate his citrus farm.
Medical community reaches out to Europa Donna over malpractice claims
THE MEDICAL community has been up in arms over allegations made by breast cancer organisation Europa Donna this week.
As calls for greater compensation for drought get nowhere, measures are stepped up
FARMERS will take crippling measures on Monday to protest against inadequate compensation for the drought after a meeting at the House Agriculture Committee yesterday led to a dead end.
THE REFEREE has the final say on whether a football match will be interrupted and the police are obliged to comply with that.
This was the outcome of a conference that took place yesterday morning at the Justice Ministry in view of last week’s interruption of a league game when fans started lighting flares.
THE FREE Gaza volunteers have had to postpone a second planned sailing to Gaza for several weeks, they said yesterday.
HOTELIERS yesterday called on the government to encourage all those in the tourism industry to adopt more energy-saving programmes.
The call was made on the eve of World Tourism Day today, the theme of which is tourism and climate change.
NEARLY 4.5 million people visited the Mall of Cyprus in its first year of operation, owners announced yesterday.
At a special event in Nicosia to mark its one-year anniversary today, General Manager Marios Chiromerides explained that the Mall “has helped the everyday lives of all citizens and offers something that was missing from the market and that was wanted by the public.
AN EMBATTLED, Cypriot-run monastery in Mount Athos is back in the headlines again, after ordering a Paphos patisserie owner to vacate his premises even though he has another two years on his lease.
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.
