MPs reject conditional abolition of road tax

Members of the parliamentary committees of Finance and Communications rejected Tuesday the conditional abolition of the six-monthly or annual circulation tax that would have seen retail fuel prices raised by as much

Talat must accept EU role

Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat must accept the important role of the EU in a Cyprus solution, British High Commissioner Peter Millett said Tuesday. Invited to comment on Talat’s statement that

Realistic versus desirable

What opinion polls say Remarks by Gustave Feissel about aiming for what is achievable rather than desirable makes it an appropriate moment to revisit research carried out in at the turn of

Seek “what is achievable, not what is desirable”

Solution “impossible” if Turkish Cypriots “thinned out” Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Gustave Feissel echoed the late Archbishop Makarios last Wednesday by urging Cypriots to “seek what is achievable, rather than what

Cyprus Mail turns 60: oldest newspaper on the island

The English-language daily Cyprus Mail celebrated its 60th anniversary Wednesday by distributing 15,000 copies free of charge. The island’s oldest newspaper was launched six decades ago today by Iacovos Iacovides, father of

Greece final tests negative for bird flu

The European Commission was informed on Monday afternoon by the European Community Reference Laboratory in Weybridge that the final results of tests carried out on samples taken from poultry in the Greek

Industrial production leaps in August

Industrial output recorded a sudden surge in August, rising by 7.5% compared with August 2004, after two consecutive months of decline. All categories of industry (manufacturing, electricity, gas & water, and mining