Baghdatis battered by formidable Ferrer
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MARCOS Baghdatis was beaten in the third round of the Australian Open, the Cypriot going down 6-4 6-2 6-3 to fourth seed David Ferrer in the showpiece night match on Rod Laver Arena on Friday. APOEL and Omonia ready to resume rivalry
2013-01-18
APOEL take on arch-rivals Omonia in Round 18 of the Cyprus football championship with both sides desperate for a win. APOEL trail leaders Anorthosis by six points, while Omonia find themselves two points behind fourth-placed AEL in the final title playoff spot. “Definitely the pressure we feel increases as the gap between us and Anorthosis widens. We are a team that wants to win the championship and we will fight until the last match of the season to fulfill our goal,” said APOEL coach Ivan Jovanovic. Our View: The problem of high prices cannot be tackled by a plafond
2013-01-18
THE MAXIMUM price, or ‘plafond’ as we like to call it, will be imposed on the retail price of milk from Monday after an order issued by the commerce minister on Wednesday. This would set the price at €1.41, supposedly 10 cents lower than it would have been had all parts of the supply chain imposed price rises. But what happens after the 45 days for which the plafond will be in force? Will the retail price just rise to €1.55 with the government powerless to do anything? Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis hoped that in this period some compromise would be reached and both cattle-farmers and pasteurisers would agree to smaller price hikes. Deputies reject property tax bill
2013-01-18
DEPUTIES yesterday rejected the cabinet’s new immovable property tax (IPT) rates, opting instead to postpone discussions on the grounds that more time was needed to study the provisions in depth. The government wanted the bill approved before Monday, when eurozone finance ministers are scheduled to discuss the island’s bailout bid. The bill, approved by the cabinet on Wednesday and submitted to parliament earlier yesterday, is in line with a preliminary bailout agreement and in theory it could fetch the government some €120 million in 2013. The government requested the bill to be classified as urgent, meaning parliament would have to discuss and vote on it immediately. Papadopoulos steps down as DIKO second
2013-01-18
NICOLAS Papadopoulos yesterday resigned his position as vice-chairman of DIKO, citing his publicly-avowed disagreement with the party’s endorsement of the candidacy of Nicos Anastasiades for president. In a written statement, the son of former President Tassos Papadopoulos said the move was a “political act of disagreement with the decision to back Mr Anastasiades.” He went on to clarify that he was not leaving DIKO, noting that he would retain his position as party cadre and MP. New poll confirms DISY chief’s lead
2013-01-18
DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades will be the next President of the Republic, whether or not a runoff ballot is necessary in next month’s general elections, the latest CyBC-commissioned poll has confirmed. Anastasiades, who is officially endorsed by the DISY and DIKO parties, garnered 38 per cent of preferences – a huge lead over AKEL-backed Stavros Malas with 23.7 per cent. Independent presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas got 20.4 per cent. The previous iteration of the poll, released in December, gave Anastasiades 37.1 per cent, Malas 23.1 per cent and Lillikas 20.4 per cent. Meanwhile the percentage of “undetermined” votes stood at 15.8 per cent, compared to 16.3 per cent in December. Police look for dead man on assault charge
2013-01-18
JUST SHY of a year after a man was murdered, police showed up in his home with a court writ relating to an assault charge, stunning his mother who could not understand why they were looking for a man whose murder they were meant to be investigating. Lawyer Demetris Pavlides said the tearful mother showed up in his office this week, distraught that authorities wanted to charge her son in a 2009 assault case that she thought had closed prior to his death in February last year. What to do if you find a bomb
2013-01-18
POLICE SPOKESMAN Andreas Angelides yesterday highlighted the dos and don’ts for those who unexpectedly find themselves face-to-face with an explosive device. He urged members of the public not to attempt to move any explosive devices they may find, and certainly not to bring them to a police station. Dangerously close to stating the obvious, Angelides made his plea after a man triggered a security scare in Nicosia on Wednesday when he walked into a central police station carrying a bomb he found in his driveway. ‘A milestone in bilateral relations’
2013-01-18
CYPRUS AND Oman signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday on bilateral political consultations. Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah came to Cyprus on a one-day visit, becoming the first Omani foreign minister to do so, meeting in the process his Cypriot counterpart Erato Kozakou Marcoullis and President Demetris Christofias. The two ministers discussed a number of issues, including developments in Syria, as well as hydrocarbon exploration in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Popular cuts down in Greece
2013-01-18
CYPRUS Popular Bank’s Greek unit will cut its branch network and staff numbers this year as part of efforts to reduce operating costs to cope with the country’s deep recession, it said yesterday. Popular, Cyprus’s second-largest bank, was nationalised in mid-2012 after its capital base took a severe hit from a writedown in Greek government debt where it was heavily exposed. The bank’s Greek unit launched a voluntary retirement scheme in December, aiming to reduce staff numbers by 400 by the end of January, which will help to cut payroll costs by 12 per cent.  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. |
