THE NEW round of reunification talks scheduled to start today has been postponed following a Greek Cypriot pilgrimage to the occupied north yesterday being turned back at the Limnitis checkpoint.
THE CABINET is soon expected to have a full proposal on the restoration of the old GSP area so an architectural competition can be set up.
According to Nicosia Municipality’s senior architectural officer, Agni Petridou, the proposal was prepared taking primarily into consideration the results of the recent public referendum that was posed to Nicosia residents.
THE EDUCATION Ministry yesterday presented its plans to make life easier for non-Greek speaking pupils in public schools.
The ministry aims to do so by implementing its newly formed policy, which will apply from the beginning of this school year.
TWO OUT of three Cypriots will be obese by 2015. The startling prediction was made by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a report into the effects of marketing food and beverages towards children.
THE GOVERNMENT is studying a plan to restructure 100 per cent state-owned charter airline Eurocypria, which may involve the injection of an additional €35 million in share capital.
Eurocypria CEO Lefteris Ioannou said yesterday that the restructuring plan had been prepared on the basis of a study of the company’s viability carried out by international experts.
THREE MEMBERS of The Elders plan to visit Cyprus late next week.
The delegation, to be led by Elders chairman Desmond Tutu of South Africa, will also include former UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland.
CYPRUS plans to issue €3 billion in three-year bonds to domestic banks to assist them in getting cheaper funding from the European Central Bank, the Finance Minister said yesterday.
Commercial lenders which will be allocated the bonds will be legally obliged to pass cheaper interest rates on to consumers, said Charilaos Stavrakis.
THE GOVERNMENT will lose €15m instead of gaining €11m if puts plans to build the Cyprus Cultural Centre on the backburner, according to a recent study on the project.
THE EUROPEAN Union has repealed its legislation concerning the size and shape of fruit and vegetables.
Under the previous system, the European Union had set strict standards for size, shape and colour of 36 fruits and vegetables. Since July 2009, the specifications for 26 products have been lifted.
THE COMMITTEE for Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus yesterday confirmed that reports of a massacre in Kyrenia would be investigated.
Allegations of a massacre were widely reported in the media after a witness gave an interview to the Turkish language Afrika newspaper.
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.
