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 as 6.3 cents a litre. The joint committee meeting heard the first of the government’s three proposals on the issue, presented by Communications
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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 the EU is a biased organization Millet said after a meeting with the Ecologists – Environmentalists Movement General Secretary George Perdikis, that “it
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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 the year among Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, which found that there was room for manoeuvre in both communities on even the trickiest
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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 is desirable” in a solution to the Cyprus problem. He warned that the demographics of the north is fast working against the interests
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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 the present day publisher Kyriacos Iacovides. A front-page comment said the first edition on November 2, 1945, cost one piastre, or half a
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Cyprus Airways (CAIR) will submit a rescue plan to the EU on Thursday in order to safeguard the future of the airline, at a time when the major staff unions have opposed the restructuring plan. The Council of Ministers decided Wednesday to submit the revised plan that includes harsher cutbacks, with further cuts in pay,
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Nokia has shipped X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, the sequel to the highly successful Activision title X-Men: Legends. The all-new action role playing game (RPG) allows N-Gage gamers to create Super Hero dream teams featuring popular X-Men and classic Brotherhood villains as they unite for the first time ever to overcome the ultimate evil
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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 region of Chios are negative for the presence of avian influenza. The samples had been taken and sent for tests to the CRL
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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 & quarrying) recorded an increase. One reason for the increase in this traditionally quiet month could be catch-up after the truckers’ strike in
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