A TANGIBLE sense of anger and indignation hung over the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north as it woke up yesterday to the implications of Tuesday’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the Orams case, and how it might affect the ongoing peace talks.
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POLITICIANS, lawyers and public figures in Cyprus, Turkey and the UK yesterday spoke out about the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in the Apostolides-Orams case.
FLU TREATMENTS yesterday flew off the shelves as Cypriots stocked up on medications in light of a global pandemic.
Pharmacists’ Association president Nikos Nouris said the first people who had purchased the drugs were ones planning to travel abroad. However the treatment was not a preventative and should only be taken at the first onset of flu symptoms.
RUMOURS yesterday resurfaced that Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, received property in the occupied areas as payment for representing David and Linda Orams in their UK property appeal against Greek Cypriot refugee Meletios Apostolides.
THE GOVERNMENT, municipalities and town planning experts yesterday got on board with to restore the latest zoning plan for Nicosia after the Supreme Court had declared it null and void.
LIBYA’S top oil official said yesterday his country is keen to invest in oil-and-gas exploration off Cyprus’ southern coast.
Shukri Ghanem said Libya is “very much interested in looking at different possibilities of investment” in a search for oil and gas deposits inside the island’s exclusive economic zone.
TOUR OPERATORS said yesterday they were hoping Cypriots would continue to travel this year despite the financial crisis but the feeling was they would opt for cheaper packages.
PARENTS of pupils at Highgate School are scrambling to find alternatives before September due to uncertainty over its continuing operation.
ONE hundred and fifty cannabis plants were found in a Nicosia apartment on Tuesday night. A 36-year-old man was arrested in connection with the find and yesterday remanded in custody for eight days. The plants, 45-85 centimetres in height, were located in two rooms specially set up to grow the plants, police said.
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.
