HIGHLY TOXIC liquid waste was deliberately dumped into the drainage system at the new Larnaca airport, from which rainwater flows into the eco-protected Salt Lake, the Environment Services confirmed yesterday.
The Lady of Paphos Margaret Mary (Peggy) O’Neil has passed away. She will be sorely missed by many, me among them. Being sharp-edged, poetical and with a strong belief, she was a person of significance,
Leif Krogstad
Norway
It was with interest that I read about the current operation by the police to catch speeders. The claim that enforcing speed limits would save over 6,000 lives EU wide is just not borne out by the facts.
A few days ago I was waiting for my flight in Larnaca Airport Departure Lounge. I purchased a 75cl bottle of water for €2.60. This surely is well over-priced – and how many other over-priced items are there for the “captive audience” of the departure lounge? From what I hear there are many.
I wrote to the airport to complain, but of course… no reply.
BANK OF CYPRUS is quietly confident that its entry into the Russian market last year would make a bigger, significant contribution to its profits in 2009.
Russia’s economy “is strong, it has good fundamentals, and if the recent rise in oil prices develops into a trend, this will help them towards recovery”, a senior BoC source told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday exchanged views on the opening of a crossing point, at Limnitis.
On his return to the Presidential Palace, Christofias said he expected an answer from the Turkish Cypriot leader concerning the opening of Limnitis, at their next meeting on May 21.
THE MINISTRY of Education yesterday put on a brave face, brushing aside the notion it had suffered a setback in its ongoing dispute with secondary teachers over state university admissions of students based on international exams.
THE EDUCATION Ministry, school districts and police are confident that if they work together they will be able to contain further outbursts of teenage vandalism in the run up to school leavers’ graduations, they said yesterday..
THE OFFICIAL registration of 47 candidates in the elections for Cyprus’ six seats in the European Parliament on 6 June took place yesterday at the Nicosia Hilton.
The 47 candidates consisted of six each from AKEL, DISY, DIKO, EDEK, EVROKO and the Greens, plus four from the Cyprus Reunification Movement (KEP), two from the National Popular Front (ELAM) and five independents.
THE EUROPEAN network of conscientious objectors will be holding a series of events in Cyprus in the next three days to discuss the importance of “the right to refuse to kill”.
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.
