Recently added articles from Cyprus Mail (Cyprus):
Opposition pounces on Tselepis.
Dec 22, 2009 ... Byline: Stefanos Evripidou THE PRESIDENT'S top adviser on the Cyprus problem, Toumazos Tselepis drew fire once again yesterday from the majority of political parties for a talk he gave at the weekend. Tselepis spoke extensively on the Cyprus issue before the AKEL ...
Copenhagen: a drive-by shooting.
Dec 22, 2009 ... Byline: Gwynne Dyer "THE CITY of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport," said John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, on Friday night. "There are no targets for carbon cuts and no agreement on a legally binding ...
Not enough being done to address migrant women's needs.
Dec 22, 2009 ... Byline: Patrick Dewhurst MOST MIGRANTS to Cyprus are women and face a double discrimination based on gender and ethnicity, Labour Minister Sotiroula Charalambous said yesterday. Speaking at a seminar on Equal rights and voices for migrant women in the EU, ...
State payroll cleaning out state coffers.
Dec 22, 2009 ... Byline: Elias Hazou THE STATE payroll is sucking the treasury dry, accounting for one-third of the government's budget. It has also increased fivefold over the past 20 years, it emerged yesterday as allegations were made that some civil servants were 'sitting at home' on a ...
Turkish Cypriot side has absorbed 99 per cent of EU aid.
Dec 22, 2009 ... OVER 99 percent of the e1/4259 million Aid Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community has been contracted by the European Commission before last Friday's deadline, said an EU statement yesterday. A total of 880 contracts, most of them grants, have been signed. Enlargement ...