PROFITEERING at the expense of tourism will not be tolerated, the Commerce Minister said yesterday, adding that cases that fail to reach the courtrooms will be highlighted through the media instead.
Minister Antonis Paschalides said he was optimistic tourism would not be seriously affected by the global financial sector.
THE GOVERNMENT aims to save €250 million in next year’s budget by reducing “non-productive expenses” by civil servants such as unnecessary overtime and trips, Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis announced yesterday.
“Government revenues are continually getting smaller, mainly due to a big drop in property sales (and a corresponding drop in Immovable Property Tax).
THE UNIVERSITY of Cyprus is investigating allegations that a faculty member may have collaborated with academics from a Turkish Cypriot university in publishing a scientific paper.
A QUARTER of Cypriot voters are blasé about Euro Elections 2009, if the latest polls are to be believed.
The laissez-faire attitude was captured in three surveys released over the weekend, each showing that over 25 per cent of respondents are either undecided and/or just not interested in the June 6 vote.
‘If anyone is prosecuted, the public will hear about it when they are charged and when the evidence is heard in court’
ATTORNEY-general Petros Clerides said yesterday he would need at least another month before deciding what steps to take regarding the debacle surrounding the escape of convicted double rapist and murderer Antonis Prokopiou Kitas.
THE BODY of 86-year-old Lydia Gulesserian was found yesterday morning, ending a search that lasted almost three weeks since the pensioner went missing.
Gulesserian’s remains were found near the University of Cyprus campus in Nicosia, not far from where she had last been sighted after her May 6 disappearance from the Kaladjian aged care home.
TWO PAPHOS teenagers were killed at the weekend in yet another fatal road accident, said police.
‘We’ve been planning this for months and no one said a thing’
FORMER President Glafcos Clerides yesterday underwent emergency surgery at the Apollonion Hospital to open a small artery in his heart.
According to his doctor Iosif Kasios, Clerides had complained of chest pains early yesterday evening, “and we deemed it necessary to carry out an emergency catheterisation”.
OPPOSITION D.I.S.Y. has taken swift and decisive action to distance itself from deputy Christos Pourgourides after he rubberstamped a contentious motion regarding the human rights of the ‘Turkish minority’ on two Greek islands.
The party’s most senior deputy has been informed that his term at PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) will not be renewed.
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.
