U.N. SPECIAL envoy for Cyprus Alexander Downer arrives on the island on Wednesday ahead of Friday’s talks between the two leaders.
Downer will arrive on the same day as Elders Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and Lakhdar Brahimi, who will visit the island for two days to help boost the negotiations process.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias plans to reinforce the Greek Cypriot side’s negotiation team by appointing a committee of experts to support his efforts in the Cyprus problem.
According to Government Spokesman Stefanos Stefanou, the committee will include experts from Cyprus and abroad, and specialists on European laws and regulations.
COMMERCE Minister Antonis Pashalides and Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis yesterday called for a further reduction in the price of fuel, in view of the reductions in the price of oil in the international market. The two ministers warned of an impending intervention on their part, unless fuel prices decreased.
THE Bank of Cyprus Group has obtained the approvals of the Central Bank of Cyprus and the Central Bank of Russia to acquire 80 per cent of Uniastrum Bank in Russia.
The completion of the acquisition is expected by the end of the month.
THE CRIMINAL justice system in Cyprus is in crisis and unless the authorities act now, crime will increase in a unified federal Cyprus, Law Professor and criminologist Andreas Kapardis warned yesterday.
THE EDUCATION Ministry’s recently announced measures to combat teenage delinquency are little more than “first aid measures”, according to the Chairman of the House Education Committee.
Nicos Tornaritis of DISY yesterday proposed his party’s 10 added measures, which he believes will help combat the problem more effectively.
TO MARK today’s World Animal Day, the Cyprus Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (CSPCA) has announced a series of new measures in the hope of sensitising Cypriots on issues of animal welfare.
“The way we treat animals reflects on our society and national decency,” Toula Poyadji, the head of CSPCA, said yesterday.
YIOTA Eleftheriou was just 34 when she was told she had breast cancer.
“In that second; I thought my world was ending. I thought it was all over. All I could think about was my children and that I had to go to a lawyer to sign the house over to them,” she said.
Today, exactly two years and two months on, she can’t believe that she is the same person as she was then.
THE RISK of developing breast cancer can be greatly reduced through physical exercise and maintaining a normal weight.
Research shows that as much as 25 to 33 per cent of breast cancer cases are linked to being physically inactive and being overweight.
Unfortunately a lot of women do not know this.
DIGITAL television is expected fully to replace analogue terrestrial transmission in Cyprus by 2011.
The programme for digital switchover was announced by Communications Minister Nicos Nicolaides and Interior Minister Nicos Sylikiotis at a news conference yesterday.
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.
