IN A LANDMARK ruling, the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) said yesterday oil companies had engaged in price-fixing and cartel-like behavior as unsuspecting motorists gassed up at the pump.
Agios Athanasios Municipality is to be commended in handing out compost bins to the inhabitants (Cyprus Mail August 8). However if people just pile in leftovers, and I would not recommend bread as was suggested in the article or any cooked food) they will end up with a nasty-smelling yucky mess.
The comment by Michael Economides in the 9 August issue, “Green jobs: “Fast-tracking economic suicide” raises a number of interesting questions such as, Who funded the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos study?, and Who finances the think-tank Open Europe?
THE CYPRIOT economy is now officially in recession, following a 0.5 per cent contraction in the three months to June, its second consecutive negative reading for GDP, data showed yesterday.
A GERMAN couple was in absolute panic on Wednesday morning, when they awoke to find their 10-year-old son had disappeared from their hotel room in Paralimni.
Calm was restored, however, when police found the boy sleeping peacefully in a vacant room on the floor above his parents. The 10-year-old had sleepwalked out of their room during the night..
THE BEACH at Curium was off limits yesterday after being shut down following dozens of complaints of human excrement floating in the water.
Red flags were raised on the beach on Wednesday after lifeguards deemed the water unfit for swimming following a slew of complaints to the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) over the past two weeks.
AROUND 140 items of Cypriot antiquity on display at the Archaeological Museum of The American University of Beirut (AUB) have been catalogued for the A.G Leventis Foundation.
ABUSE OF sick leave and a lack of surgical consumables have forced surgeons to cancel dozens of operations in the last four weeks.
“We have to excuse the inexcusable to patients,” said Dr Stavros Stavrou, head of the government doctors’ union.
Stavrou said he alone had postponed 35 surgeries in the past month.
THE OUTCRY over the five Greek Cypriot National Guardsmen executed at the village of Tzaos continued yesterday, as media sources reported new details of how events unfolded.
NUMEROUS fragments of very large storage jars known as pithoi, dated to the First Century BC, have been unearthed during excavations at the Geronisos Island located just off the coast of Peyeia, Paphos.
The jars, which were most probably used to store olive oil, are among the largest storage vessels found to date on Cyprus, according to experts.
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.
