BEFORE I start on my nonsense, I feel obliged to introduce a serious note. I would like to ask all our customers to observe a minute’s silence, in honour of all those ordinary people who sacrificed five minutes of their lives, five years ago, defending the Cyprus Republic from the threat of extinction.
We, the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots, exercising our inherent constitutive power, by our free and democratic, separately expressed common will adopt this Foundation Agreement – from the Preamble to the Comprehensive Settlement of the Cyprus Problem, 31 March 2004
“The water quality is very high indeed, it tastes very good”
THE ISLAND’S first mobile desalination plant providing drinking water for Limassol and people in the south-west is now fully operational.
IT IS feasible to lay a pipeline to pump water from Turkey to Cyprus, says the Turkish engineer who has been working on the project, but the political situation means that Greek and Turkish Cypriot water authorities have opposing views of the 300 million-euro scheme.
ALL POLITICAL parties bought votes for cash in last Sunday’s general election in the north, Turkish Cypriot politician Serdar Denktash said yesterday.
ANGRY GOAT and sheep farmers dumped 25 tons of milk on Konia roundabout in Paphos yesterday to protest that one third of their production is not being absorbed by the dairy industry.
According to police, the peaceful demonstration involved 21 farmers, and national guardsmen were called in to help the fire brigade clean up the spilt milk.
UBP victory in the north
SIX MEN were injured before, during and after a volleyball game between Anorthosis and Omonia in Larnaca on Friday night, which ended in utter mayhem.
The Cyprus Volleyball Cup match, which had taken place at the Kitio Athletic Centre, had been attended by around 1,000 supporters.
THE DRUG SQUAD has uncovered a massive greenhouse in Protaras filled with cannabis plants, in what was yesterday described as one of the biggest drugs busts Cyprus has ever seen.
A 33-year-old man and a woman aged 24, both from Nicosia, have been arrested in connection with the case and were yesterday remanded for eight days by Famagusta District Court.
‘VOLUNTEER Doctors – Cyprus’ met all their targets during a recent mission to Kenya, its members announced 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.
