Lights go out and clocks move forward

MAKE sure you have moved your clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time which began this morning at 03:00. Clocks will move one hour back on October 30.

Yesterday was Earth Hour and as part of a world-wide scheme to save electricity and fight global warming, lights went off in 130 countries around the world.

Earth Hour took place at 8:30pm across Cyprus, including at the Presidential Palace where President Christofias was scheduled to talk at 7:30pm at a reception held on the occasion. The Green party in Cyprus was also an avid supporter of the temporary blackout, urging people to support Earth Hour.

“Try to take it beyond the hour this year,” said Earth Hour’s Andy Ridley. Visit www.earthhour.org to find out more.

 

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.