SOME OF the worst flood damage caused over the last two days was due to a lack of proper town planning, with building permits given for houses to be built on dried-up river courses, it emerged yesterday.
CROSSINGS between the two communities increased in 2008 with around €27.3 million changing hands across the divide, an economic survey revealed yesterday.
According to the statistics published by the Peace Economics Consortium, there were four million crossings between the two communities in 2008 compared to 3.5 million the previous year.
FORMER UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali last night said Cyprus could play a role in promoting peace in the region.
HUNTERS are being warned to register the trailers they use to transport dogs during hunting trips as a new provision in the law makes them illegal if not registered.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias has compared the EU’s concessions to Turkey to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, he said in an interview published in The Guardian yesterday.
CHILDREN, teenagers, parents and teachers from both communities will be navigating through Old Nicosia tomorrow as part of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) effort to encourage bi-communal understanding and cooperation.
An initial address by Nicosia Mayor Eleni Mavrou at the Ledra Street checkpoint will start tthe event at 10:30am.
COMPENSATION will soon start being handed out to those most affected by the September tornado, which destroyed a number of homes and businesses in the Nicosia suburb of Latsia.
NEGOTIATIONS on the Cyprus problem cannot be completed by the end of the year, Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat agreed yesterday.
THE ELECTIONS in Germany late last month gave a clear-cut mandate to the chancellor Angela Merkel to govern again the country in coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats.
WHILE GREECE and Cyprus have been dealing with torrents of rain, southern England has been basking in an Indian summer. At the small village of Selborne, confused squirrels were bounding about the lawns of Gilbert White’s house, the famous 18th century naturalist, as if it were spring.
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.
