IRISH BARS and clubs across the island have geared up for today’s big showdown between Cyprus and Ireland.
Predictions about the number of Ireland fans coming to watch the big match have ranged from 2,000 to 4,500. However, if the last game is anything to go by, when 18,500 arrived, it could be a lot more.
THE REACTION to the launch of the Stelios Award for Business Co-operation in Cyprus has been ‘overwhelming’, with 36 solid applications received so far from a wide range of entrepreneurs and businesses across the island.
NEARLY 24,000 old bangers were taken off the road between 2008 and 2009, the Transport Ministry said yesterday at the end of the incentive scheme for this year.
The Ministry said yesterday it was uncertain whether state budgetary provision will be made for the continuation of the programme.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias has admitted the Greek Cypriot side was partly to blame for the outcome of the planned Agios Mamas pilgrimage on Wednesday, according to political sources who attended the meeting with the President on Thursday.
AN END to the row between Cyprus Airways (CY) and Eurocypria appeared to have been brokered by Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis following separate meetings he had yesterday morning with the two state-owned airlines’ boards.
UN SECRETARY General Ban Ki-moon may visit the island before the end of the year, his special envoy to Cyprus said yesterday.
Alexander Downer was quizzed by reporters over whether Ban was planning to visit Cyprus any time soon.
THE DRY bed of the Limnaria river, which runs from Konia roundabout down to the Debenhams store in Paphos, is almost completely backed up with rubbish.
Local councillor, Vassos Demitriou, believes court action should be taken against the irresponsible people who are illegally dumping and fly tipping here.
THE THIRD Gala concert to promote breast cancer awareness, which is held in Paphos, will be dedicated to the memory of soprano Marilena Solomou, who died in August.
Solomou, 35, had performed at all three previous concerts and was herself diagnosed with the disease in February 2006.The concert will raise funds to go towards the sunflower SMS breast cancer reminder service.
OVER 30,000 baby turtles were hatched in Cyprus last year, accord to the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.
Around 12,000 Green Turtles and Caretta Caretta were released from the protected nests in the Lara-Toxeftra area and 18,000 to 20,000 thousand Caretta Caretta from the protected nests in Chrysochous Bay.
CYPRUS Postal Services have finally caught up with the ‘smile’ trend already popular in countries such as the USA and Australia, offering personalised stamps with the sender’s picture on them. The new service became available in Cyprus this week and has already gained the thumbs-up from local philatelic organisations.
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.
