The EU-funded Mine Action Centre Cyprus (MACC) will remove mines located in the UN buffer zone area adjacent to Nicosia’s Ayios Dometios area next Tuesday. The work is part of ongoing mine clearance operations in Nicosia. Resident in the affected area could be inconvenienced by de-mining activity in the neighbourhood.

The outbreak of bird flu in neighbouring Turkey has given Cypriot politicians across the divide another another opportunity to show their brotherly love. Government spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said “contacts are being held with the occupation regime, in the framework of the Veterinary Services, on this issue.” However, comments by Chrysostomides suggest that there already appear