ALDI ‘apologises unreservedly for this error to its customers and producers’
A LEADING German supermarket yesterday admitted to effectively misleading European consumers by selling re-labelled Israeli Grapefruit as a product of Cyprus before passing it on to the public.
I have just read two very interesting articles in the Cyprus Mail concerning the National Guard: the first that it plans to go ‘green’; and the second that the Council of Ministers has rejected the government’s proposal – and election promise – to gradually reduce army service to 19 months.
What a joke.
A POLICEMAN who recently reported a high-level state official for using his mobile phone while driving was forced to alter his statement and let the man off with a mere warning.
The official came forward on MEGA last night, the channel that ‘broke the story’ on Tuesday.
The Communications and Works Ministry will consult with Nicosia municipalities to discuss a request by Nicosia Mayor Eleni Mavrou to play a major part in reorganising public transport.
Although the Ministry set September 1, 2009 as a deadline for starting the revamp, there is now a possibility that the intervention may change the project’s timelines.
THE EDUCATION Ministry’s ‘rapid reaction force’ to deal with violence in schools is still in the process of investigating an attack by a parent n a teacher on Monday, begging the question of how rapid the force actually is?
Schools and the public both need to be patient was the answer from Ministry official Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos.
OPPOSITION DISY should stop using the question of foreign investment as a “pre-election football”, Commerce Minister Antonis Paschalides said yesterday, referring to criticism of the proposed Qatari hotel project opposite the Hilton in Nicosia.
QUESTIONS were being asked yesterday as to whether a deal might have been struck between fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir and the Turkish Cypriot authorities after the north’s ‘finance ministry’ appeared to have backed down on a threat to seize Nadir’s Kibris Media Group for tax evasion.
COMMERCE MINISTER Antonis Paschalides yesterday announced funding of up to €40,000 each for small businesses as an incentive to relocate away from unlicensed or unsuitable buildings or areas.
Paschalides said those entitled to the funding were existing firms operating at their current premises prior to January 1, 2002.
“NO ONE is above the law, especially the police,” said Nicosia Police Chief Kypros Michaelides yesterday, commenting on allegations that police beat, verbally abused and mocked a teenager during questioning because he was black.
POLICE have found the car stolen on Tuesday night in Frenaros by an unknown thief who car-jacked a man in Frenaros, making off with the car and a briefcase with around €70,000 belonging to the driver.
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.
