Too many unsolved issues

2009-08-01

THERE ARE too many unsolved issues in the Cyprus problem for the bulk of the talks to be left to the aides of the two leaders, said Presidential Commissioner Georgios Iacovou yesterday.

Chinese maid remanded for suspected theft

2009-08-01

A 39-YEAR-OLD Chinese housemaid was yesterday remanded in four-day custody after her employer accused her of stealing over €1,000 worth of valuables and cash.

The court reduced the demand to four days from the six police had initially requested.

‘Christofias left us with no choice’

2009-08-01

THE GLARING absence of DIKO members in the chairmanships and vice-chairmanships of the semi-government organisations (SGOs) announced yesterday leaves a gaping hole in the government coalition whose future now stands on a precipice.

‘Ela re, I’m on the plane’

2009-08-01

SUBSCRIBERS to the Cytamobile network will be able from Monday to use their phones during flights on certain airlines – but so far not including Cyprus Airways – following an agreement with OnAir, one of the two providers of in-flight mobile telephony services.

‘Sleaze’ cop receives promotion

2009-08-01

A 52-YEAR-OLD police officer who is facing disciplinary action for his involvement in leaking a taped mobile phone recording of an ex-girlfriend performing a sexual act has recently been promoted.

Rare good news on bird trapping front

2009-08-01

‘Reduction in Spring trapping levels and record fine for mist netting conviction give hope ahead of the autumn migration season’

SPRING bird trapping showed a downturn in 2009, the first good news on the Cyprus trapping front for two years, BirdLife Cyprus said yesterday.

Partial lift to Napa squaddie ban

2009-08-01

THE BAN imposed on British Military personnel from entering Ayia Napa Square has been partly lifted, as British soldiers are now allowed to enter the area between 10am and 5pm, an SBA spokesman confirmed yesterday.

How I missed the ‘Gay Outing’

2009-08-01

O.K. I get the joke. Quite funny really, for as I took the tiny track off the A27 between Brighton and Lewes to Charleston, the famous Bloomsbury farmhouse set in the south downs, I found I was a day late for the annual Gay Outing Festival.

From the sublime to the ridiculous

2009-08-01

GENERALISATIONS can be inaccurate and harmful. I recently announced to various friends that this year’s Haji Family Holiday would be in Malta and I was confronted with various reactions, from bewilderment to a feeling of ‘letting the side down’.

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.