RESIDENTS AND shopkeepers of Nicosia’s Athalassa Avenue yesterday said a big “NO” to renaming their 60-year-old road Tassos Papadopoulos Avenue, echoing as they did so the late president’s stance on the Annan plan.
CYPRUS negotiations are expected to intensify towards the end of this year and into 2010, the UN said yesterday in a request for funding totalling US$3,279,200.
CYPRUS may be experiencing unusually hot weather for this time of the year but it hasn’t stopped some Nicosia shops from taking out their Christmas decorations.
With the barometer sitting at 34 degree, six degrees above the October average, it’s only ten weeks to Christmas Day.
THE GOVERNMENT is trying to do the impossible in a bid to continue with its development projects and increased social benefits with reduced revenues, the Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis said yesterday.
COSTAS IOANNOU will not step down as head of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) until he has negotiated with the electricity utility a proposed hike in electricity rates.
THERE WERE only 15 of them six months ago but the number of foreign millionaires now granted Cypriot citizenship “by exception” has jumped to 26, according to latest statistics.
According to reports, 20 from out of the total are Russians while the others include Ukrainian and Cuban, among others.
PREPARATIONS for the opening of the new airport at Larnaca have entered the final stretch for the big day on November 7, operators Hermes said yesterday.
A DELEGATION from the European Council’s Secretariat for Protection of Minorities concluded a trip to Cyprus yesterday with a visit to Nicosia’s Catholic School, Terra Santa.
SINCE IT opened three years ago the new Nicosia General Hospital has had 640,988 outpatient visits, 365,892 visits Accidents and Emergencies and 80,317 inpatients, Health Minister Christos Patsaides said yesterday.
Cyprus is one of three EU member states being considered to host the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the other two being Bulgaria and Malta.
The EU is seeking to create the centralised office for the administration of EU policy on the status of refugees.
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.
