According to your paper last week, the cost of wheat had decreased and subsequently the cost of bread would drop.
True to Cypriot traditions, I visited Constanides Bakery in Peyia on June 20 and purchased a large sliced loaf and guess what? It had gone up by 20 cents.
The mystery of lower prices deepens!
A. Hawkins,
Peyia
Much has been made of the various reasons for lack of UK tourists in this paper; ‘credit crunch’, reccession, high prices for services and consumer items etc. Let me shed some light on another reason at a more personal level.
CYPRUS RECORDED its fifth case of the H1N1 virus yesterday, the last four being young English tourists who recently arrived on the island.
The latest person to have the virus is a 22-year-old English tourist who arrived in Cyprus on June 18.
FIVE YEARS have passed since the law for patients’ rights was passed, yet the district committees for examining complaints are still not operating fully.
A NICOSIA district judge was yesterday furious when she was again forced to postpone a hearing for a case that has been ongoing since 2008.
Judge Olga Loizou made it clear that the only reason she had agreed to adjourn the trial till next week was out of respect for the Supreme Court and Assize Court.
Will it last this time?
TRAFFIC cameras won’t return to Cyprus roads until 2010 – but when they do, they will be placed at different spots based on the recommendations of Traffic Police.
A total of 460 cameras are expected to start running in three stages and will be strategically placed in traffic accident hotspots in a bid to increase road safety on the island.
JUST AS environmentalists were thanking the Cyprus government for swiftly suspending quarrying in the Akamas village of Androlikou yesterday, angry residents reported hearing loud explosions on Monday night.
THREE Nigerian men caught with six kilos of cannabis last week were yesterday in court for their referral to the Assize Court.
The hearing was adjourned until Thursday after the trio requested legal representation.
They face charges of importation, possession with intent to supply and conspiracy to commit a felony.
A 36-YEAR-OLD heroin addict was devastated yesterday when he was jailed for 12 months after being caught with less than a gram of the A-class narcotic.
Speaking from his holding cell minutes before he was taken away to Nicosia’s Central Prisons the man said he couldn’t get over the injustice of his sentence.
“It wasn’t even half a gram. It was 0.165 grams,” he said.
THE FREE Gaza movement is launching its eighth mission to break Israel’s siege of Gaza tomorrow, setting off from Larnaca port with two boats carrying cement and children’s toys.
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.
