“CYPRUS will have one of the strictest anti-smoking laws in Europe”.
This is the view expressed by DISY MP Andreas Themistocleous, who has told the Cyprus Mail that the extremity of the new laws on smoking are matched in Europe only by those of the UK and Ireland.
A 29-year-old man was arrested in a Larnaca clinic yesterday on suspicion of being the sixth member of a money lending gang that loaned €1.8m to a betting shop owner in Paphos.
CYPRUS is the only country in the eurozone to have seen positive growth continue in the first quarter of 2009, the European Commission’s DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities July 2009 monthly monitor on the EU employment situation and social outlook has said.
Sports group in Italy quarantined after contracting the virus
SEVENTEEN new cases of the H1N1 virus were reported yesterday, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the government-controlled areas to 218. Of the new cases, 14 were Cypriots, while the other three were foreigners.
CYPRUS’ small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will shortly have access to a total of €456 million in cheap long-term loans as part of a European Investment Bank (EIB) initiative to support European SMEs.
A 46-YEAR-OLD Cypriot man has been in connection with his possible involvement in the case of the 17 immigrants who were found in a container at Limassol Port on Tuesday.
The 46-year-old is believed to have prepared the paperwork for the container that would transport the immigrants from Limassol to Piraeus port and had picked the group up when they arrived in town.
THE HOUSE has green-lighted €450,000 in additional government spending for the hiring of around 100 police officers for aviation security at the island’s two airports.
EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou yesterday bemoaned the lack of Cypriot presence in Brussels-based events, even when the EU offers to pay for them. Vassiliou said she felt “truly saddened” by the “empty chair” phenomenon, referring specifically to the lack of Cypriot participation in the latest EU Youth Health Conference which took place in Brussels the last two days.
THE NEXT instalment of art work by an all-female cast of Cypriot artists will be unveiled at the site of the peace talks next Monday by the UN’s special envoy, Alexander Downer, who will present a series of paintings, prints, handmade paper, collages, mixed media and installations.
Government Spokesman Stefanos Stefanou announced that the National Council – the top advisory body to the President on the handling of the Cyprus question – will convene on July 24.
At the meeting, he said, political party leaders will discuss developments in the Cyprus question, in view of December 2009 and the evaluation of Turkey’s EU accession course.
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.
