CONSUMERS are paying artificially high prices for petrol because oil companies are massively pre-fixing fuel prices, the House European Affairs Committee and the Commerce Committee heard yesterday.
The two committees met jointly to discuss Cyprus’ obligation towards the EU to maintain strategic oil reserves and create a free competition environment.
THE STATE’S lacklustre measures to support the tourism and hotel industry had not helped travel agents and hoteliers to offer discount holiday packages, the Chairman of the House Commerce Committee claimed yesterday.
CYPRIOT economic actors think that focusing on the right practical measures, rather than the psychology of the consumer, will create a climate of confidence.
MOB FIGURES may not have dictated who gets stationed where, but DISY boss Nicos Anastassiades said yesterday he still smelled a rat when it came to the recent police reshuffle.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday said that the Greek Cypriot side expected the Turkish Cypriot side to respect the right of the refugees to decide what to do with their own properties.
FORMER heroin addicts attending a programme at the Anosi Drug Rehabilitation Centre in Limassol are being given a heroin substitute under conditions deemed unsafe for both patients and their carers, the centre’s nurses said yesterday.
CYPRUS will celebrate the International Month of Francophonie in March with a variety of cultural events across the island.
The programme of the International Month of Francophonie was presented yesterday by Education Minister Andreas Demetriou and French Ambassador in Nicosia Nicolas Galey.
FIVE members of the right-wing party DISY yesterday submitted their candidacy for the June 6 European Parliament elections.
The five candidacies are: Ioannis Kasoulides, Christos Stylianides, Eleni Theocharous, Timis Efthymiou and Christoforos Fokaides.
FOLLOWING a stormy night in Paphos, spontaneous celebrations began in Argaka, as the dam began to overflow yesterday morning. The increased rainfall has raised hopes of the surrounding agricultural community that crops and animals will not have to suffer drought conditions, as they did last year.
CYPRUS and Greece plan to work together on the reform of the educational system in both countries, the House Education Committee heard yesterday during its first-ever meeting with its Greek parliamentary counterpart.
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.
